Sarasota Springs News

When Richard Bradford drove up to his house on a recent Sunday morning, he saw a manhole cover in the street rising upward and brown liquid gushing onto Linwood Drive.

Today the war in Afghanistan passed a grim milestone: it turned nine. At a time when more soldiers have been killed there than ever before, America's war in Afghanistan is at a critical juncture, a make-or-break time for President Obama's strategy to reverse Taliban momentum.

A tip from a vigilant neighbor led to the arrest Wednesday of a man accused of burglarizing a house in the Sarasota Springs area.