A woman is suing a Decatur mortuary after she says the business accidentally put the wrong body in the casket for her grandmother's funeral. Marva Lynch says that Donald Trimble Mortuary dressed ...

Manatee County commissioners greenlit a $23.5 million land purchase in Lakewood Ranch to relocate many government services from downtown Bradenton. The county earmarked nearly $35 million for the ...

But the day of Johnson’s funeral, it wasn’t the great-grandmother of seven whose body was in the casket, Lynch was told by a funeral director during the service. “Upon information and belief ...

Manatee County commissioners are considering a $23.5 million land purchase in Lakewood Ranch to relocate services from the current downtown Bradenton administrative building. The county earmarked ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — Deep in silence, as if under a spell, children watch intently as Bacuri, a young Amazonian manatee, glides around a small plastic pool. When he surfaces ...

Brevard Zoo's first two manatee patients — Churro and Randa — took the plunge recently at the zoo's new $2.1 million sea cow rehab center. Now they saunter, inseparably, side by side in a new ...

Brevard Zoo opened a new manatee rehabilitation center. The center will house up to six manatees at a time and is not open to the public. Manatee deaths in Brevard County have been high due to ...

Manatee Elementary School in Viera received a threatening phone call at about 11:12 a.m., according to BPS Spokesperson Janet Murnaghan, triggering a lockdown at the school. Viera High ...