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SARASOTA COUNTY — A Port Charlotte woman was killed in a Friday afternoon wreck on Interstate 75 just north of River Road, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.
Sally L. Brock, 56, died at the scene of the 1 p.m. crash. According to an FHP report, Brock, d...

After a brief stop in South Carolina, John Hackworth returned last week to lend his ideas, his skill and his experience to Sun Coast Media Group .
The former managing editor of the Charlotte Sun has a different title this time around: Sun editor.
If his ...

PORT CHARLOTTE — An area man is in critical condition after he was thrown from his bike following a hit-and-run crash early Saturday morning, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report. David A. Beck, 45, of Fort Myers, was riding his bicycle on Gibralt...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers have yet to start hiring aggressively — a trend the Federal Reserve will weigh in deciding this month whether to slow its bond buying and, if so, by how much.
Employers added 169,000 jobs in August but many fewer in June a...

NEW YORK (AP) — After a volatile day, stocks ended Friday mostly unchanged, as traders weighed a weak jobs report for August and the ongoing tensions between the U.S. and Syria.
While stock indexes ended close to where they began, they had a rough ride du...

(AP) — A man stormed into several apartments and sexually assaulted several women overnight before he was shot and killed by police who had launched a massive manhunt for him Friday, authorities said.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said 24-year-...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro said he called the mother of one of his captives and told the woman her daughter was alive and had become his wife, according to interrogation videotapes.
Castro also told investigators that authorities mi...

DETROIT — Americans are paying record prices for new cars and trucks, and they have only themselves to blame.
The average sale price of a vehicle in the U.S. hit $31,252 last month, up almost $1,000 over the same time last year. The sharp increase has bee...

BERLIN — He was Adolf Hitler’s devoted bodyguard for most of World War II and the last remaining witness to the Nazi leader’s final hours in his Berlin bunker. To the very end, SS Staff Sgt. Rochus Misch was proud of it all.
For years, he accompanied Hitl...

WASHINGTON — Suggesting an uphill fight for President Barack Obama, House members staking out positions are either opposed to or leaning against his plan for a U.S. military strike against Syria by more than a 6-1 margin, a survey by The Associated Press ...