Editor’s note: A video in this story had erroneous information regarding remains at the cemetery. It has been replaced with an accurate report PALMETTO, Fla. (WFLA) — The Manatee County Sheriff’s ...

Authorities say a former Manatee deputy spent decades in Alaska under his dead stepbrother’s identity after disappearing.

A former Manatee County Sheriff’s Office deputy was sentenced last week to 13 years in state prison for sexually assaulting a ...

The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office says it arrested a teacher on a child abuse charge after she told one student to slap another. Judith Clark, 64, taught sixth grade at Lee Middle School, the ...

Ex-Manatee County deputy gets 13 years for sexually abusing underage girl in the 1970s after living in Alaska for decades.

A Manatee County man has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing three female family members, the State Attorney's Office announced. Sterick Jerome Nixon was convicted by a jury of lewd ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A now-former corrections officer for the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is in custody after being arrested on a warrant out of Manatee County, the agency announced Friday. Erik L.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 21-year-old corrections officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was arrested in Manatee County on an attempted sexual battery charge. According to JSO, the Manatee County ...

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 ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – One man is behind bars, and a woman is dead after the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office said the suspect called 911, telling dispatchers that he stabbed his wife. The ...