#Sarasota

Hurricane Milton Swamps Florida, Leaves 3 Million Without Power  Hurricane Milton moved off Florida's east coast early this AM, downgraded to a Cat. 1 storm. Milton made landfall around 2030 ET on Wednseday near Siesta Key, Florida, a barrier island next to Sarasota. The storm's

A woman in Venice, Florida received the ultimate surprise over the weekend when an 8-foot alligator broke into her house by knocking down a screen door. This took place just a short drive from where I live here in Southwest Florida and where I grew up. In fact, I was just down there over the

A bartender at Pop’s Sunset Grill in Venice, Florida is being called a hero after he saved a life. While working at the waterfront tiki bar in Sarasota County, Dominic and others witnessed an SUV on the other side of the intracoastal (waterway) drive right through a parking lot, over the sea wall,

iStockphoto / Svetlana Dyachkova A Sarasota, Florida man just lived through and survived a waking nightmare. He was swimming in Lake Manatee, a lake that’s about 15 miles from my house, when he was attacked by the alligator. The gator latched onto his arm and pulled him under the water several

iStockphoto / Jerry Ballard Connor Cruise, son of actor Tom Cruise, caught a truly massive 301-pound Warsaw Grouper over the weekend to win the grand prize in the Sarasota Slam fishing tournament in Sarasota, Florida. The Sarasota Slam is an annual fishing tournament held at Marina Jack in