Fourteen couples get married during the Fifth Annual Valentine’s Day Group Wedding in the courtyard of the Manatee County Historical Courthouse on Feb. 14, 2025. Tiffany Tompkins ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A motorcyclist involved in a crash in Manatee County on Thursday died from his injuries. The crash ...

Modified drivers race around turns one and two during the Madhouse Classic at Bowman Gray Stadium on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. The field of modified drivers pose for a group photo before the ...

“The Burke County Public School System is aware of a racially insensitive photo that was recently posted on a teacher’s personal social media account,” Superintendent Dr. Angela Williams sai ...

South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Executive Director Hillary Taylor speaks against the execution of Marion Bowman Jr. on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Columbia, S.C.. (AP ...

Bowman grew up in a rural area in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, about halfway between Charleston and Columbia. He had an absent father and his mother became ill when Bowman was a teenager ...

A Manatee County probate judge has declared Catherine Strim dead. The 67-year-old vanished a year ago. Her body has never been found. Investigators have connected her brother, Scott Strim ...

This undated photo shows Marion Bowman Jr., released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections. He awaits execution on death row. This undated photo shows Marion Bowman Jr., released by the ...

A casual, American-style restaurant chain is doubling its Manatee County footprint. Known for their hearty meals and fresh-baked rolls, Texas Roadhouse is one of several planned restaurants for ...

Manatee County will consider new regulations for short-term vacation rentals within the next year, and could soon require that property owners who operate Air B&B rentals or similar accommodations ...

Ryan Blaney raced at Bowman Gray Stadium when he was 10 years old. Seeing yard markers on the turf in the infield, along with packed grandstands filling roughly three-quarters of the way around ...

As we became increasingly irritated and tired, reporter Max Chesnes pinged our phones: A manatee was being rescued in Bayboro Harbor near the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus.