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CHARLOTTE HARBOR — It’s not often Port Charlotte mother-of-three Leah Williams gets to do something fun with all of her girls.
Her daughters range in age from 8 to 1, and the youngest, Victoria, usually has to sit on the sidelines while her sisters, Makay...

PUNTA GORDA — When you visit one of the City Vapor & Ecig stores in the area, and there are plenty of them, everyone you talk to has a story — the customers, the folks behind the counter, and the woman who started it all six years ago.
They all were heavy...

CHARLOTTE COUNTY — A man lying in the road near the Charlotte-North Port line was killed early Monday morning when a car ran him over, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.
The fatal crash occurred around 2:15 a.m. on Prineville Street near Tulane Avenue. ...

Adrienne Moreno is playing college volleyball again.
The North Port High School graduate didn’t plan to continue her indoor career after playing two years for Palm Beach State College.
Now the junior is a starting middle blocker/outside hitter and one of...

JUPITER — The Charlotte Stone Crabs put an exclamation point on their run to the Florida State League playoffs with a resounding victory Sunday in their regular-season finale.
Taylor Motter’s three-run homer with two out in the eighth inning lifted the S...

Unhappy with how some flag football organizations are run, four local women formed their own men’s league and are ready for Monday night games under the lights.
However, the North Port women won’t watch the teams play in the city limits.
“We were told th...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday condemned the use of chemical weapons, but he called for a negotiated settlement of the civil war in Syria, and announced he would lead a worldwide day of fasting and prayer for peace there on Sept. 7.
Francis ab...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A planned meeting between Israeli lawmakers and the Palestinian president has been postponed, Israeli and Palestinian officials said Sunday.
The lawmakers had planned on traveling to President Mahmoud Abbas’ West Bank headquarters on Tues...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A roadside bomb targeting a passing Pakistani army convoy exploded Sunday, killing nine soldiers in a tribal region near the border with Afghanistan, authorities said.
The roadside bomb exploded in a village near Miran Shah, the main town...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — The government of Uruguay makes Scotch whisky. It also makes and sells rum, vodka and cognac, and has done so for nearly a century. Many people consider this sideline of the state to be an historical accident — a wasteful and ev...