Sarasota County

A Broward County resident was arrested Wednesday after police said he was the man behind the wheel of a stolen car when a security camera captured the moment a police officer in Sarasota was tossed into the air after the vehicle slammed into him.

Sarasota police are searching for the driver of a stolen car caught on camera driving around a road block, striking an officer and flinging him through the air Monday evening.

Federal investigators say an air traffic controller cleared one plane to land and another to take off from the same runway in Florida last month. The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday that the American Airlines and Air Canada Rouge planes were separated by six-tenths of a mile at their closest point. That’s much farther apart than planes were in...

Authorities are searching for the pilot of a small airplane that crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast over the weekend, with two people confirmed dead. Authorities in Venice, Florida, said Monday that they’re looking for a 42-year-old man in an area offshore from the Venice Municipal Airport. The single-engine Piper Cherokee was reported overdue Saturday when...

The crash took place this past weekend off the west coast of the state.

Photos showed the man wearing nothing but shoes and socks climbing on the back of the truck.

The video was taken Sunday morning in Venice, Florida, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post

Sheriff’s deputies captured video of a large alligator crawling through a front yard in Florida before making its way into a community lake.

A pizza shop along Florida’s Gulf Coast has an interesting new menu item: one with three letters spelled out in toppings. Two of the letters are the initials of President Joe Biden. The first letter? Well, it starts with “F” and we cannot say the rest here. NBC affiliate WFLA-TV reports Solorzano’s Restaurant in Sarasota began serving the pizzas...