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Paul Lioon has been a member of OCEAN — Our Charlotte Elder Affairs Network — since 1998. As manager of Sun Trust Bank’s trust operations at the time, his membership in OCEAN helped him learn about the different services available to seniors and to meet o...

ENGLEWOOD — Mike Cullinan’s decision to step aside from coaching the Lemon Bay High School baseball program came after he had turned over the team’s summer program to assistant coach Casey Hanrahan so he could spend more time with his family.
It was those...

Chale Mcleod didn’t race the way he wanted, but his effort still attracted attention.
The Port Charlotte High School graduate said representatives from three colleges talked to him after his 400-meter run Friday at the AAU Junior Olympic Games in Detroit....

PORT CHARLOTTE — With the announcement of the suspensions of 13 players by the commissioners’ office of Major League Baseball, there was not much sympathy among the Charlotte Stone Crabs.
Reliever Lenny Linsky said the Biogenisis situation caused both a g...

CLEVELAND — Alex Avila’s three-run homer in the ninth inning off closer Chris Perez rallied Detroit to its ninth consecutive victory, 4-2 on Monday against Cleveland.
The Tigers were three outs away from having their lead in the AL Central cut to two game...

NORTH PORT — Jeppe Bennetsen leaned among a throng of Imagine School football players, their heads dripping after an exhausting practice session at the charter school.
“We got that out of the way,” the Sharks’ coach said with a smile. “The first day.”
The...

PORT CHARLOTTE — After a brief hiccup in the first, Sean Bierman was in the zone.
Making his first start as a Charlotte Stone Crab, the left-hander allowed one run in six innings en route to an 8-1 victory against Brevard County on Monday. With the win, C...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Women across the U.S. are risking their lives for black market procedures to make their buttocks bigger, often involving home-improvement materials such as silicone injected by people with no medical training.
Some want to fill out a...

(Slate) — Zillow has published one of its Zestimates, asserting that the 16-bedroom, 35-bathroom single-family home located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. would be worth about $319 million on the open market.
This turns out to be rather substantially at odds w...

LILLINGTON, N.C. — Alonzo Lunsford has trouble getting out of chairs and warns his family to wake him gently. Kathy Platoni can’t shake the image of the man who died in a pool of blood at her knees. Shawn Manning still has a  bullet in his body and gets e...