The Sarasota Family YMCA will not compete for a $150 million, three-year state contract next summer to run child welfare services in Pinellas and Pasco counties. ...more

November 7, 2007

TAMPA - The Sarasota Family YMCA will voluntarily end its contract next summer to run child welfare services in Pinellas and Pasco counties. In exchange for agreeing to step away from those counties, the YMCA will receive a one-year extension of its contract to provide similar services in DeSoto, Manatee and Sarasota counties. ...more

November 6, 2007

Fourteen people have been arrested and 32 pounds of methamphetamine has been recovered during an early-morning police sweep through Bradenton and surrounding areas. ...more

September 25, 2007

Investigators are looking for a second suspect in a scheme that used the identities of 16 nursing home patients to open charge accounts at stores. ...more

September 14, 2007

Investigators are looking for a second woman they say was involved in a scheme in which the personal identities of 16 St. Petersburg nursing home patients were used to open charge accounts at stores. ...more

September 13, 2007