Court records show that in 2025, Dorian Brooks pleaded no contest to robbery with a weapon and was sentenced to 15 years in ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Commissioner Carol Felts has died, according to a statement by District 5 Commissioner Dr. Bob McCann on Tuesday. Felts represented District 1 after being elected to the post in ...

His arrest comes less than five months after he was released from prison on similar charges, records say.

The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office is offering up to $9,500 for tips in the March 8 shooting that killed one and injured another.

Marshall Drake, an inmate at John E. Polk Correctional Facility in Oviedo, was found dead in his cell on Thursday.

In the span of a year, Carol Ann Felts went from being thrown out of the Manatee County Commission chambers to sitting behind the dais as the District 1 commissioner. Just 15 months into her current ...

MYAKKA CITY, Fla. — Manatee County lost both an advocate and a county commissioner this week. Carol Ann Felts died on Tuesday. She represented District 1, encompassing the eastern and northern parts ...

A woman and two children were found dead inside a Lakewood Ranch house on Thursday night, deputies say. Manatee County deputies are investigating the deaths of a woman and two children found inside a ...

Attorneys for Melvin Trotter had long argued he was intellectually disabled, but he was put to death by lethal injection for ...

Manatee County District 1 Commissioner Carol Ann Felts has passed away at the age of 68. Felts was a grassroots politician who championed responsible growth and was elected in 2024. She served on 11 ...

As Melvin Trotter faces execution today for a 1986 killing in Florida, his attorneys argue his intellectual disability has been long-documented.