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NORTH PORT — The Venice Cat Coalition is offering free cat sterilizations for any feline living in the North Port area bordered by the Warm Mineral Springs neighborhood in the north and Sumter Boulevard to the south. The area extends to the Charlotte Coun...

Howard Dole joined the Navy in 1948 after graduating from high school in Philadelphia. He went aboard the minesweeper USS Sprig, the first radarman assigned to a minesweeper in the Atlantic Fleet. The ship was based in Charleston, S.C.
“We sailed for Engl...

NORTH PORT — Lela Jean Clendaniel always wanted to write a book of her own, so when a story idea started percolating in the voracious reader’s head about two years ago, she decided to commit it to paper.
The result was “My Name Is ‘Rose,’” a novel about a...

The Arizona State University football team’s defensive scheme fits Marcus Hardison.
“We attack, attack, attack,” the Charlotte High School graduate said. “I love it. It’s my style.”
The junior is trying to solidify a spot in the starting lineup after spen...

Marauders 5, Stone Crabs 3
Bradenton AB R H RBI BB SO AVG
Ngoepe SS 4 0 3 0 1 0 .294
Sosa CF 4 0 0 0 1 2 .248
Allie DH 4 1 0 0 1 2 .232
Garcia RF 5 0 0 0 0 1 .263
Gamache 2B 4 1 0 0 1 3 .266
Osuna 1B 3 2 2 1...

BANNING, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters continued to make progress overnight battling Southern California’s latest destructive wildfire, which burned 26 homes and threatened more than 500 others in the San Jacinto Mountains.
Riverside County Fire Department’...

AVELLA, Pa. (AP) — A fluke rainstorm at an ancient rock shelter in western Pennsylvania has brought a renowned archaeologist back to the site of where a furious debate was launched in 1973 over when the first humans came to the Americas.
As a young archa...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton’s effort to carefully craft her post-Cabinet image has hit a few bumps.
A sexting scandal in the New York City mayoral race and a federal investigation that’s roiling the Virginia governor’s race are recalling poli...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel approved building nearly 1,200 more settlement homes Sunday and prepared the release of more than two dozen long-held Palestinian prisoners — highlighting an apparent settlements-for-prisoners trade-off that got both sides back to ...