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Family vacation ends in tragedy in Bradenton
BRADENTON, Fla. - The Bradenton Police Department is investigating a drowning that happened on Wednesday. Police responded to a vacation rental home on 23rd Avenue West around 4:15 p.m. A family member found a 15-month-old child unresponsive in a pool and pulled him from the water. SIGN UP: Click here...
WATCH: Drone footage shows sharks surround huge manatee in Pinellas County
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A drone operator captured a thrilling sight as several sharks were spotted swimming around a huge manatee in Pinellas County. John Yanchoris said he captured the “awesome” drone footage while flying over the Dunedin Causeway around 6:45 p.m. Wednesday. Yanchoris has a YouTube channel where he posts his drone videos. In the description […]
Man convicted of manslaughter after road rage incident in Bradenton
BRADENTON, Fla. — A 25-year-old Bradenton man was convicted by a jury this week in a Manatee County courthouse of shooting and killing a man in 2021. On Oct. 12, 2021, Nicholas Koontz and Timothy Andricks, 31, were in a road rage altercation while driving in west Bradenton. Andricks reportedly threw his paper McDonald's cup full of ice and soda at Koontz's car, which led to Koontz following him at high speed until they stopped on a residential street.
In St. Petersburg, Academy Prep Center’s Evening of Dreams inspired attendees
Academy Prep Center of St. Petersburg’s Evening of Dreams was an inspiring event at The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art in St. Petersburg Feb. 10. The fundraiser benefited the school’s student scholarship program. Among the attendees were staff and faculty, former students with heartening success stories and people who volunteer for the school. One such volunteer, Sally Stovall Willis, was honored with the Jeffrey L. Fortune Dream Maker Award. Willis started volunteering at the school in 2015, with a specific request to work with eighth-grade boys. She joined the board of trustees in 2016 and is head of the academic committee. The event was emceed by Mark Wilson, news anchor at WTVT-Ch. 13.
Trash can dispute between neighbors erupts in gruesome attack
TAMPA - There is no love lost between two Tampa neighbors after an altercation sent one to the hospital and another one to prison. It happened last August, and the beef was over trash cans. Recently, a jury found Kenny Blackmon guilty of aggravated battery with great bodily harm and...
‘It’s fallen on a deaf ear': Clearwater group frustrated over city’s response to erased Black cemeteries
CLEARWATER, Fla. — A newly-formed cemetery group says the city of Clearwater has not provided an adequate response to its request for a $10 million redress for grave relocations, memorials and a mausoleum to house burials from two erased African American cemeteries. The 3C Society, which stands for the...
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