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PUNTA GORDA — Local veterans groups have shifted gears in their goal to bring a replica Vietnam Veteran Memorial Wall to Punta Gorda. Instead of purchasing the Traveling Wall they had their eye on, it would be better and less expensive to build their own....

ENGLEWOOD — The Sheriff’s Office’s Marine Patrol Unit issued three men citations Thursday for having possession of more than the legal limit of sharks onboard their boat. The Marine Unit was patroling the area of the Placida boat ramp near the Boca Grand...

The Cultural Center on Monday hosted for the Gary and Kerri Show, featuring country classics by the local artists. It was part of the theater’s Summer Sunlight Series.
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The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office’s Marine Patrol Unit cited three men recently for having possession of more than the legal limit of sharks on board their boat.
The Marine Patrol Unit was patrolling the area of the Placida boat ramp near the Boca Gra...

Sheriff Bill Prummell wants to warn residents of a potential threat to Charlotte County residents in the form of “distraction crimes” that are being seen in other Florida counties. Law enforcement agencies in several South Florida counties report that an ...

By JIM KUHNHENN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Three years after President Barack Obama signed a sweeping overhaul of lending and high-finance rules, execution of the law is behind schedule with scores of regulations yet to be written, let alone e...

WASHINGTON — Unemployment rates rose in more than half of U.S. states in July and fewer states added jobs, echoing national data that show the job market may have lost some momentum.
The Labor Department said Monday that unemployment rates increased in 28...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds swarmed across a bridge into neighboring Iraq’s northern self-ruled Kurdish region over the past few days in one of the biggest waves of refugees since the rebellion against President Bashar Assad began, U....

(Stateline.org) — The real estate agent’s mantra of “location, location, location” for setting the value of a home is also determining which housing markets are rebounding the fastest.
Housing markets in upstate New York and southwest Florida show some of...

NEW YORK — For much of the nine years that Shane Salerno worked on his J.D. Salinger documentary and book, the project was a mystery worthy of the author himself.
Code names. Hidden identities. Surveillance cameras. Until 2010, when “The Catcher In the Ry...