The debate over the use of face masks is developing in a north central Florida county.

UPDATE: The Amber Alert for 5-year-old Naomi Herring has been cancelled. Herring has been found. Thank you for helping us get the word out.

Multiple agencies were called to the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing in Bradenton in connection with search warrants.

Law enforcement is investigating a human head that was found on the side of a roadway in St. Petersburg.

Imagine waking up to weird noises outside your home, and when you check what’s going on through your Ring doorbell you see a gator on your doorstep.

Four fires are burning in South Florida and causing major problems in several communities and shutting off a vital passage across the state.

A lightning strike is being blamed for damage to a house in Sarasota. Fire crews were called to the house on Wood Hollow Ct for reports of an attic fire.

Motorworks Brewing in Bradenton is partnering up with the Manatee County Animal Shelter to find homes for dogs.

Wawa CEO Chris Gheysens says on December 10, their information security team discovered malware on their processing servers.

After crashing through a fence, the driver went on the airport’s perimeter road and crossed the air carrier ramp at a high rate of speed, estimated around 100mph, smashed through the cinder block wall at the back of baggage claim.

With help from their handlers, the dogs posed for this Thanksgiving-inspired photo. It was a lot of work for the dogs (AND the handlers!) but the photo was worth it.

On October 31, deputies say the teen called an Abuse Hotline and said she was thinking about killing herself because of the home she was living in and alleged physical and emotional abuse by her mother.

Around 7:30pm Thursday, the manager of a Big Lots store in Port Charlotte called the sheriff's office when she suspected a woman was shoplifting. The manager told deputies that a woman had gone to the restroom with a shopping cart full of items and when the manager went to check on her, she found ga

Deputy Robert Pounds saw a driver speeding around 4:30am Tuesday on Airport-Pulling Road in Collier County. He pulled the car over and as he walked up quickly realized the passenger was about to give birth.

The sheriff’s office says around 4pm last Thursday, September 26, they were called to Starlite Lane and Ocean Boulevard in Port Charlotte where neighbors said an injured man had been seen walking along the streets.

The man rushed outside to find his dog in the canal with an alligator. Without pausing, the man jumped into the canal and pried open the gator’s jaws to rescue his dog, pulling the dog to safety.

The sheriff's office conducted Operation Intercept VI, an operation where suspects ranging in ages from 19-65 thought they were communicating with young male and female children after responding to ads on the Internet, but they were actually talking to undercover detectives.

A Sarasota man has been convicted of molesting four pre-teen girls after providing them with drugs and alcohol.

Two albino alligators at a Central Florida animal park are the proud parents of 19 eggs and park officials are hoping for many more of the rare white reptiles.

Shortly after midnight on June 2, Sarasota Police and the U.S. Coast Guard responded to 2 Marina Plaza in Sarasota after receiving calls from passengers aboard a charter ship saying the captain, 36-year-old Mark Bailey, was intoxicated, had fired off rounds from a handgun and was refusing to bring

The City of Clearwater tweeted pictures of this massive, 11-foot-long gator Friday morning. It had managed to get inside a home on Eagles Landing overnight using low windows in the kitchen.

This Albino Raccoon is making its way around the internet!

Sarasota Police say the father walked into the A&F Jewelry and Loan store on North Washington Boulevard around 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7 with his infant child in a carrier and asked the clerk if he could pawn a baby.

Firefighters say when they saw the infant, he was in full seizure, was in obvious signs of heat stress, and had a fully loaded diaper. At the hospital, the baby's temperature was 106 degrees.

Shortly after midnight on Wednesday, deputies were called to a bar on South McCall Road in Port Charlotte, where a man had blocked his wife's vehicle into a parking space. Inside the vehicle were their five children - a 5-year-old, a 3-year-old, an 11-month-old, and two 20-day-old infants.

Just type “Florida Man” into Google, followed by your birthday. People are posting the results all over the internet and we’re seeing an impact here in Sarasota, where older ABC7 stories are seeing a renewed interest!

Fort Lauderdale Battalion Chief Stephan Gollan tells the Miami Herald the man "freaked out and didn't know what to do."

The dog, a male Florida Cur, was found roaming through backyards of homes on the 3200 block of 42nd Street SW in LeHigh Acres. The dog's mouth had been taped shut with red electrical tape.

Robin Addley took this short video at her friend Gayle Bradford’s home in Bayshore Gardens, which is in Manatee County. Robin says she and Gayle feed these two white squirrels, which she says is a mother and her baby, every morning.

Sen. Richard Shelby was asked if barrier funding was included, and he said, “We got an agreement on all of it.”