A Punta Gorda woman was arrested after deputies said she hid a missing teenage boy who she was trying to adopt.

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. — A 61-year-old Florida woman was arrested after deputies said she hid and housed a teenager who had been ...

As the investigation continued, the detective allegedly learned that the woman had not actually taken any formal steps to ...

A week after an African spurred tortoise was lost and found in North Port, another one is on the loose in rural Punta Gorda.

CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - Convicted murderer James Ford is now less than 24 hours away from being executed at the ...

CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. — Charlotte County Sheriff Bill Prummell has been appointed to Florida's Immigration Enforcement ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — James D. Ford spent nearly every moment of the last 25 years in a six feet by nine feet cell on Florida’s ...

Red tide blooming near Florida Gulf coast beaches has drifted closer to County over the past week, but beach impacts are ...

A Florida man convicted of murdering a woman and raping and killing her 8-year-old-granddaughter in Seminole County in 1993 ...

TALLAHASSEE — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by Florida Death Row inmate James Ford, setting the ...

The Florida supermarket chain has a couple dozen stores in the region since opening its first store in Ballantyne in 2014.