Sarasota County News

Published: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 10:09 p.m. Trees that are likely candidates to become tall, canopied centerpieces of a property would get a new level of protection from being cut down under a proposed county law.

Sarasota High School Sailors marched in last year's Veterans Day Parade. Sarasota Military Academy color guard, drum line and pipers will salute veterans in a special ceremony at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov.

We may not have a drag queen parade or a Hemingway look-alike contest, but for the next few days Sarasota County will have more liberal public drinking laws than Key West.

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 5:24 p.m. In 2003, Nobel laureate Richard Smalley put forth his list of Humanity's Top Ten Problems for the next 50 years.

The gopher tortoise's new status as a threatened species is creating a problem for county construction projects.

On October 28, the Sarasota Police Department along with the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office, obtained arrest warrants for 33-year-old Daniel Rangel on three counts of Sexual Battery and two counts of Capital Sexual Battery on a minor.

A 33-year-old Texas man was arrested Thursday on charges he sexually abused a girl over a four-year period, Sarasota Police said.

SARASOTA a ' Sarasota County is scheduled to receive $1,418,459 in Community Development Block Grant funds, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Development.

The Sarasota County Health Department is ready to issue H1N1 flu vaccines to elementary-age children at public schools.

Punta Gorda Police Sex Offender Monitoring Program leads to rapid arrest of new city sex offender and his brother.

Delmar Smith, the man suspected in at least four violent home invasions, has been transferred to the Sarasota County Jail to face those charges.

Anthony Lorenzo's legal team gets their $780,000 paycheck this week. More significantly, the shade transcripts from all the private Council meetings with City Attorney Bob Anderson have to be made public.

Manatee Community College's new name has irked some in Manatee County. Since 2001, 10 of Florida's community colleges have changed their names after the state gave them the right to offer four-year degrees.

Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 12:20 a.m. A proposed law that would have strengthened the county's ability to declare a particular stretch of beach public was watered down Tuesday, but would still likely be the toughest access law of its kind on Florida's Gulf Coast.

A Florida couple said they are considering going to health authorities with a sandwich from Subway that had a knife baked into the bread.

During the penalty phase of Michael King's September trial, Nathan Lee told a judge his 21-year-old wife, Denise Amber Lee, was the "love of his life" and his "soulmate." King, 38, was freshly convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering Denise in January 2008.

Some Fruitville Elementary students collected their pennies for animals in need.

Published: Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 3:23 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 3:23 p.m. Editor's note: This article appeared in the print edition of the Herald-Tribune on Aug.

The slaying of Kathleen of Briles in her Terra Ceia home remains a mystery, and officials today are expected to offer a reward and plea from her grieving husband for any information that might lead to the capture of her killer.

Saying, "I don't know what to do," Sarasota County Commissioner Nora Patterson ended up doing nothing about North Port's representation on the Tourist Development Council she chairs.