Manatee County

Red light cameras were first installed after a 2010 crash in Bradenton, where a man was killed by a driver who plowed through a red light without stopping.

The go-ahead has been given to injecting polluted water from the troubled Piney Point phosphate plant in Manatee County deep under the drinking water aquifer.

The state ethics commission says it found probable cause after Vanessa Baugh helped certain residents get COVID-19 vaccines earlier this year.

The permit will allow up to 4 million gallons a day of wastewater from the Piney Point facility to be injected nearly 2,000 feet below the surface.

They intend to prevent the injection of hundreds of millions of gallons of polluted wastewater from the Piney Point phosphate plant into the underground aquifer.

Members of the public can submit written comments about the proposal and attend a public meeting on Oct. 6 in Bradenton.

Teams from Manatee County surveying damage found minor flooding along the Myakka River and the barrier islands, where some turtle nests were affected.

Following a four-month investigation, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office released a 113-page report that concluded that none of Vanessa Baugh’s actions rose to the level of a crime.

Two people died this week and a number of county employees contracted COVID-19.

Hopes has been serving on an interim basis since April 1.

Piney Point's owner is among the targets of the lawsuit, which seeks a full cleanup and closure of the former phosphate plant.

Also called tenant-based Section 8, the Housing Choice Voucher program is the federal government's largest rental assistance program.