S. Gulf Cove man charged with child sex offense

Story by Mark Chapman on May 8th, 2012 at 3:00 am

Scott L. Vansice

A South Gulf Cove man was arrested Fri­day and charged with hav­ing sex with an 11-year-old girl.

The girl told a Char­lotte County deputy April 25 that she had sex sev­eral times over the past four to six weeks with Scott Lawrence Van­sice, 37, of Rose­bud Cir­cle, accord­ing to a Char­lotte County Sheriff’s Office press release.

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263 dogs rescued, will need homes

Story by Mark Chapman on May 6th, 2012 at 10:36 pm,
with photos by courtesy SCSO

Dogs res­cued from a home in Ven ice need homes.

Sub­mit­ted by Sara­sota County Sheriff’s Office

The Sara­sota County Sheriff’s Office ha removed 263 small dogs from a home in Venice Acres.

Ani­mal Ser­vices removed the dogs over the past few days from 220 High Point Drive, Venice.

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Vineland Leaders of the Month for April

Story by Mark Chapman on May 4th, 2012 at 3:35 am,
with photos by courtesy Vineland Elementary School

April lead­ers, kinder­garten through sec­ond grade.

Each month the Rotonda VFW Post 10476 and its Ladies’ Aux­il­iary spon­sor Vineland Ele­men­tary School’s Leader of the Month Pro­gram. This pro­gram is designed to rec­og­nize stu­dents for their out­stand­ing per­for­mance and good cit­i­zen­ship. The pupils listed below were hon­ored at an assem­bly on April 26, where they were rec­og­nized on stage and received a spe­cial ribbon.

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River Road truck crash sends one to hospital

Story by Mark Chapman on May 3rd, 2012 at 10:42 pm

A Port Char­lotte man suf­fered minor injuries Thurs­day when two trucks col­lided at South River Road and Mor­ris Drive.

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Man charged in three Englewood burglaries

Story by Mark Chapman on May 1st, 2012 at 4:25 pm

Andrew D. Neiding

Char­lotte County Sheriff’s detec­tives arrested an Engle­wood man Mon­day and charged him with bur­glar­iz­ing three vehi­cles near his home.

Charged with three counts of Bur­glary of a Con­veyance and three counts of Petit Theft is Andrew Dar­rell Nei­d­ing, 23, 2000 block of Geor­gia Avenue.

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Ex NFL player speaks to Lemon Bay group

Story by Mark Chapman on May 1st, 2012 at 4:12 pm,
with photos by courtesy LBHS

For­mer NFL defen­sive end Rhondy Weston recently spoke to a group of Lemon Bay High athletes.

A group of Lemon Bay High School student-athletes were recently given the ben­e­fit of the wis­dom gained by some­one who worked his way to the top and cre­ated a bet­ter life for himself.

Mem­bers of the Manta Ath­letic Lead­er­ship Acad­emy (MALA) heard guest speaker Rhondy Weston talk about how his real­iza­tion that doing all you can do, as opposed to just what you are required to do, led him from a child­hood in Belle Glade to a year in the National Foot­ball League and into the busi­ness world.

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Englewood man charged with possessing child porn

Story by Mark Chapman on April 30th, 2012 at 10:58 pm,
with photos by courtesy SCSO

John Anthony Hughes

Sub­mit­ted by Sara­sota County Sheriff’s Office

John Anthony Hughes, 41, of the 1300 block of Over­brook Road, was arrested Mon­day by the Sara­sota County Sheriff’s Office and charged with pos­ses­sion of child pornography.

As a result of an inves­ti­ga­tion over the past few months by a detec­tive with the Inter­net Crimes Against Chil­dren Task Force, deputies exe­cuted a search war­rant at Hughes’s home Monday.

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Denim and Diamonds rakes in cash for EES

Story by Mark Chapman on April 30th, 2012 at 2:30 am

EES Prin­ci­pal Mark Grossen­bacher and his wife, Kim.

The Denim and Dia­monds Gala for Engle­wood Ele­men­tary School held March 24 at Boca Royale Coun­try Club by Engle­wood Ele­men­tary School PTA raised approx­i­mately $30,000 between the silent and live auc­tions, spon­sor­ships, the Giv­ing Tree and tick­ets sold to kick off a free-car drawing.

Dec­o­ra­tions were art­work pro­vided by EES stu­dents and enter­tain­ment by auc­tion­eer Tom Hinck, hus­band of EES art teacher Dawn Hinck. The live auc­tion con­sisted of Rotonda Golf and Coun­try Club mem­ber­ship, a cus­tom play house, beach­side vaca­tion in the Bahamas, Flight of your Life Expe­ri­ence, Wake­board­ing Expe­ri­ence, a pri­vate catered din­ner party and reserved park­ing for the 2012–2013 school year.

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