A Bradenton Police Department officer has been charged by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office with felony child abuse charge. Nicolas Leeman, 29, was booked into the Manatee County jail on ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. – A former Atlanta Braves minor league baseball player who made a name for himself at Rockledge High School is accused of causing a fatal crash on I-75 in Manatee County and ...

The Florida Highway Patrol have arrested an 18-year-old driver and impounded his Ford Mustang following a fatal hit-and-run crash on Interstate 75 in Manatee County early Monday morning. In an update ...

The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a deadly Interstate 75 crash in Manatee County that killed a semi‑truck driver and is searching for a dark‑colored Ford Mustang that left the scene, ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — While some school districts in the Tampa Bay area are dealing with declining enrollment and closing some schools, Manatee County is seeing the opposite. School district leaders ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — A costly crime is leaving parts of Manatee County in the dark. Officials say copper thieves are targeting streetlights along Moccasin Wallow Road, stealing thousands of feet of ...

A Bradenton man will spend decades in prison after prosecutors say he led a fentanyl trafficking network in Manatee County while out on bond. A Manatee County judge sentenced 43-year-old Pedro Garcia ...

Months after two inmates were killed on consecutive days at Lee Correctional Institution several other prisoners were charged in the deaths, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.