Continental Airlines, hammered by surging fuel costs, will pull all flights from Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport in September.The cuts, which represent about 10 percent of the local airport's
annual passenger c... [more]
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Foreclosure filings spiked 12 percent in Manatee, Sarasota and
Charlotte counties during May as neighboring Fort Myers-Cape Coral
posted the second highest per-capita rate in the nation.One out of every 79 homes in For... [more]
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Anyone with an Internet connection can now take a virtual tour of
almost every road in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties as part
of a mapping feature from Google.And these are not just photos on the Web. They ar... [more]
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WASHINGTON -- Parts of Florida and Mexico were supplying "the vast
majority" of tomatoes sold when the salmonella outbreak began in April
and thus remain leading suspects, the Food and Drug Administration said
Friday.But t... [more]
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BRADENTON — Dozens of Muscovy ducks used to wander around a pond at
Summer Place apartments, walk on the roofs and defecate where
they wanted.
Most
of the nuisance birds were relocated years ago to ... [more]
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MYAKKA CITY — Pickers got back to work Tuesday at grower Jimmy
Grainger's 1,000-acre patch after the federal government cleared
Florida tomatoes of being the cause of a national food poisoning scare."It's a huge relief... [more]
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President Bill Clintons's right-hand man is a Gator.
Doug
Band, 35, is a Sarasota native who earned a bachelor's degree in
English at the University of Florida in 1995. He became a White House
inter... [more]
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Traffic is moving along Interstate 75, but it will be slow going as southbound traffic is diverted to two lanes on the northbound bridge.Construction crews worked Sunday to build crossovers so drivers could avoid the roadway ... [more]
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