Port Charlotte News

Authorities seized equipment for making bogus credit cards, along with 94 blank or fraudulent cards, during a traffic stop Wednesday evening, according to a Charlotte County Sheriff's report.

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., America's trusted source for identifying Top Doctors, has selected Port Charlotte's Medical Oncology specialist Dr.

Estero High School's baseball team is playing for the state championship at JetBlue Park.

"Sick is the word, to be after children, look at children and be predators out there - it's concerning" says Marianela Henthorne, Lake Park Elementary School parent.

SUN PHOTO BY SUE PAQUIN Two-year-old Arianna Bradford uses her bucket to carry water to her grandmother, who brought her to Laishley Park to play.

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla.- A Port Charlotte man called the Sheriff's Office Wednesday morning when he found an unlocked safe containing what he suspected to be drugs in front of his house.

Tuesday, the Peace River Wildlife Center released a purple gallinule into the wild at Ollie's Pond in Port Charlotte.

SUN PHOTO BY AL HEMINGWAY Police cadets stand at attention at the Fallen Officer's Memorial at FOP Lodge 66 in Charlotte Harbor Tuesday.

A Port Charlotte man who was found to be driving with an invalid driver's license was arrested Tuesday for possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The father of a 2-year-old boy who shot and killed himself with an unsecured firearm in November will not go to jail, authorities said Tuesday.

Detectives are requesting assistance in identifying a man suspected in the fraudulent use of a credit card earlier this month at the Walmart Super Center on Kings Highway in Port Charlotte.

SUN PHOTO BY SUE PAQUIN Camp Bow Wow held a free grand opening, "bark-b-que" and adoption festival Saturday in Port Charlotte.

Frank J. D'Alimonte, 86, of Port Charlotte, Fla., passed away Thursday, May 16, 2013, at his home in Port Charlotte.

SUN PHOTO BY SUE PAQUIN Christina Pacheco, a veterinary tech at Groves Veterinary Clinic, clips the nails on Lilly, a 3-year-old Great Dane.

Every time Mike Kozenieski works with any of the big, top 10 contractors, they always ask him the same question: How's the labor there? Kozenieski, president of Sea Breeze Electric of Port Charlotte, said there is an across-the-board shortage of skilled workers - carpenters, electricians, HVAC, masons, and plumbers - and it is going to take a long ... (more)

SUN PHOTO BY DONNELL BATES A Culver's Restaurant is coming to town this fall. It will be the first in Florida for the Wisconsin-based chain.

Two deputies who were looking for someone with an outstanding warrant wound up discovering an elaborate grow-house operation after smelling a strong odor of marijuana coming from a dwelling on the 21300 block of Hepner Avenue in Port Charlotte.

Christine R. Shannon, 85, of Port Charlotte, Fla., passed away peacefully Saturday, May 4, 2013, in her home, surrounded by family.

SUN PHOTO BY JENNIFER BRUNO Friends Britinee Svetik and Minlanda Dubresil take a few pictures together before the Port Charlotte High School graduation ceremony Wednesday at Lee Civic Center in Fort Myers.

Employing "something old" in its recent fundraising campaign, the United Way of Charlotte County soared past its goal of $900,000, reaching $944,000. "I don't know what exactly to attribute it to," said executive director Carrie Blackwell Hussey.