Tallevast News

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

A homeowner went to buy supplies for fixing his new home, and when he returned he found a homeless man cooking a rack of ribs in his kitchen, according to a Bradenton Police Department arrest report.

A 30-year-old Bradenton man was critically injured when the motorcycle he was operating collided with a truck in Sarasota on Thursday afternoon.

From its founding a century ago, Mount Tabor Missionary Baptist Church has been building a remarkable legacy.

The beige block and stucco church is tucked comfortably among homes and small businesses along Tallevast Road.

The Manatee County School District has released its 2009 summer school bus schedule.

By the time this column appears in print, I shall be contemplating where to plant a crab apple tree at our cottage on an island in Indian Lake, Ohio.

A Manatee man is facing more than a dozen sexual battery charges after a 14-year-old girl told authorities he raped her numerous times when she attended a day care center operated by the suspect's mother.

Thomas F. Hennessy joined the ranks of the Oneco-Tallevast Volunteer Fire Department in 1980, and a year later became only its fifth paid member.

Published: Monday, May 11, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, May 8, 2009 at 6:08 p.m. Julie Martelo, owner of Time To Redesign in Bradenton, recently helped Manatee County Habitat for Humanity stage the first home completed in Palmetto's Washington Park, the county's newest community of Habitat homes.

Published: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 12:51 a.m. Midnight at the downtown Sarasota Post Office on April 15 sure isn't what it used to be.

Manatee residents who wait to the last minute to file their taxes will only have a few choices on where they can mail their returns Wednesday to get them in on time.