Oneco News

Every new hire in the Manatee School District including substitute teachers must now pass a drug test, the school board decided Monday night.

Leslie Adent was shopping when two elementary school boys approached and asked a question.

When Amanda Reed stopped by the Oneco Elementary clinic last week to update her son's medication, the school nurse said her son had been in an incident.

Tourism officials who want to see a hotel built north of the Civic Center in Palmetto are hoping a small road extension could help make it happen.

Two words that haunted me at Jasmine Thompson's funeral. I wasn't the only one. Saturday's service at Happy Gospel Church in Oneco was beautiful, a righteous home-going with scripture and song.

Discover the multi-cultural representations of Buddhism in "Paths to Paradise: The World of Buddhism" exhibition at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art's Ulla R. and Arthur F. Searing Wing, through Nov.

Wendy Hernandez was shaken at the sight of an unattended toddler riding a tricycle in the middle of a side street off busy Manatee Avenue East.

State officials have alerted the Manatee County School District that four of its elementaries used questionably similar phrases in this year's writing Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, a Department of Education spokeswoman said today.

Just days after a 19-year-old pregnant woman and her baby were killed in a home invasion shooting, Manatee Sheriff Brad Steube received a 2 a.m. phone call Thursday that brought his frustration over a wave of similar violent attacks to a boiling point.

Landmark businesses in Manatee County have their roots deep in the early days of commerce here when agriculture was king.

Two men were killed in a drive-by shooting that was possibly gang-related on Friday night in the Oneco area of Bradenton, the Manatee Sheriff's Office said.

Two men were shot to death Friday night in the Oneco section of Manatee County, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.

Two people were forced out of their apartment Wednesday when a fire broke out in a back bedroom.

We've all heard Florida called the lightning capital of the United States, and that's no urban legend.

A Manatee County woman was injured by lightning Monday afternoon at Falkner Farms in the Myakka City area.

Monday afternoon, a Myakka City woman struck by lightning was airlifted to Tampa General Hospital.

Four people were injured by lightning in two separate strikes in Manatee County over the Memorial Day weekend, an EMS official said Tuesday.

As the sun set Sunday night, a brief burst of rain wreaked terror on a small Oneco neighborhood.

The Manatee County Sheriff's Office collected 66 guns Saturday in a gun buy back in Oneco in an effort to curtail gang violence and keep guns off the streets.

Exactly one year ago, Bradenton's architectural review board determined that the old Bradenton Revival Temple was too structurally sound to be demolished and denied the owners' request to tear down the historic building.