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A medical helicopter transfers a patient after landing at Blake Medical Center's trauma center. After a three-year legal battle, Tampa area hospitals dropped their challenge against Blake as a trauma center, after a recent court ruling.GRANT JEFFERIES/Bradenton Herald

3-year legal challenge to Blake trauma unit dropped

Legal challenges to Blake Medical Center have apparently ended.

Crime

Robert Altomonte, probation violation, no bond.

PHOTO GALLERY | Inmates booked in at Manatee jail on July 29, 2014

Some of the latest arrivals at the Manatee County jail. 49 minutes ago

Sports

Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher Jake Odorizzi delivers to the Milwaukee Brewers during the first inning of an interleague baseball game Monday, July 28, 2014, in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Odorizzi goes 7 strong, Rays beat Brewers 2-1

Jake Odorizzi helped the Tampa Bay Rays get a bounceback win.

Business

Port Manatee has received $1.8 million in security grants, part of which will be used to modify its operations at the port's south gate.
GRANT JEFFERIES/Bradenton Herald

FEMA grant to add capacity, access at Port Manatee

Port Manatee will put $2.3 million into security improvements over the next two years intended to make the port more accessible for training events and for shipping clients.

Opinion

PAUL VIDELA/pvidela@bradenton.com
A stroll through the Village of the Arts last Friday yielded many interesting sights like this mural at the corner of 12th St W and 11th St W.

Bradenton's Village of the Arts continues upward trajectory

Sometimes simple measures mean the world to neighborhood improvement. In the case of Village of the Arts, a small boundary extension would pay big dividends.

Living

Leigh Tesar, a nurse practitioner with MD2U, examines patient Badia Bouhamid in her home at the Meadows in Sarasota. MD2U is a new medical service offered in Manatee and Sarasota counties where a nurse practitioner visits home-bound patients.
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MD2U brings 'concierge-like' medical care to Bradenton's homebound

MD2U has just come to the Bradenton and Sarasota area for home-bound patients.

Don't worry about me. The Sharknado Evacuation map supplied by Syfy network places me, as a resident of Lower Manhattan, smack in the zone most in peril this sharknado season. But I'll be ready. 1 hour ago