Cleveland News

Customers of the defunct Michael the Cleaner dry cleaning chain will be able to pick up their clothes over the next five days at the company's downtown Sarasota store.

The News-Press kicked off celebration of its 125th birthday a year ago today, on our 124th birthday.

Heather Walsh-Haney and several of her graduate students from Florida Gulf Coast University had come up empty.

Charlotte County Sheriff's officials late Thursday morning called off a search for the buried remains of a little girl reported missing 11 years ago, after a careful excavation of a "specific area of interest" at a rural Cleveland residence failed to turn up a body.

After conferring with all agencies involved in the three day search for Pilar Rodriguez, 4, who's been missing since 1999, Charlotte County Sheriff Bill Cameron announced this morning they were suspending the ground search on the property east of Punta Gorda in the Cleveland area.

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 11:34 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 11:34 a.m. The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office announced a major development in the cold case of a 4-year-old Hollywood, Fla., girl, Pilar Rodriguez, who disappeared in 1999 while visiting Punta Gorda.

You don't have to be rich to play tennis. I know that statement seems at odds with the country club image for the sport but the truth is that most tennis in this country is not played at country clubs but on public courts.

A motorcyclist received minor injuries today when another motorist ran a red light in North Fort Myers.

The Bonita Springs Historical Society is gearing up for a busy season of fall events and opportunities open to the public.

Many of Southwest Florida's mightiest builders and developers have been brought low by the current economic crisis.

Let's make Florida some money with a $100/ticket raffle for the Senate seat. We might get lucky and not get a politician.

The Charlotte County Historical Center is presenting "At Peace on the River," a narrated boat tour of the historic Peace River, at 10 a.m. Saturday at Laishley Park in Punta Gorda, returning to the park at noon.

Charlotte County Sheriff's Office Environmental Deputy Anthony Cimino, working with the Department of Environmental Protection, helped arrest Tuesday three men for an illegal paint dump site in the Cleveland area, east of Punta Gorda.