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Monday evening, the life of one  Charlotte County’s finest was  tragically snuffed out by a gunman.
Sgt. Michael Wilson was dead.
It is every law-enforcement agency’s worst nightmare. Nothing like this had ever happened to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s ...

MURDOCK — In his first year practicing medicine, Dr. Matthew DeFilippis, a Port Charlotte High alumnus, wanted to do something for his alma mater.
“It worked out best that we donate our time and our talents, and it turned out to be (in the form of) sports...

Charlotte County Director of Tourism Lorah Steiner often refers to tourism as “the canary in the coal mine” — a litmus test of the overall health of the economy.
It’s usually the first to get hit, but by the same token, it’s usually the first to recover.
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Charlotte County births
• Emmaleigh Patricia Richmond, to Amanda DeStio and Bobby Richmond of North Port, at 1:36 a.m. July 18. She weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces.
• Janiya Marion, to Natalie Barnes and Jerome Marion of North Port, at 11:30 a.m. Aug. 1. Sh...

American Legion Post 103
• Sunday Darts winners Aug. 4: Round 1: 1-Dick Braun, George Stern; 2-CW Clark, Mike Hanagan; 3-Fran Smith, Bill Sutton. Round 2: 1-Judy Day, Dick Braun; 2-Fran Smith, Bill Sutton; 3-Christy Buzzell, Ron Hickson.

Charlotte Har...

The citizens of our community, the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office and the profession of law enforcement lost a member of their family that day. Sgt. Michael Wilson, or “Mike” as we called him, gave his life in the line of duty to protect another.
Mike ...

WEST PALM BEACH (Cox) — Not all shark attacks are equal. In fact, not all shark attacks are shark attacks, according to some shark researchers who chose “Shark Week” to ask news organizations to stop using the phrase to describe every “shark-human interac...

NEW YORK (AP) — On the stock market, Friday was the ho-hum capstone to a ho-hum week, where unimpressive earnings kept investors feeling wary and news about the U.S. economy left them uninspired.
All three major indexes ended lower, and almost everything ...

GENEVA — Switzerland is a glamorous playground of the rich and famous, filled with glitterati from princes to movie stars. It’s also a land with a sometimes uneasy relationship with foreigners — especially when they aren’t white.
Billionaire media mogul O...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama promised Friday to work with Congress on “appropriate reforms” for the domestic surveillance programs that have stirred criticism at home and abroad, and said it is time to recalibrate the United States’ relationship wi...