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Palmetto CRA sets classic Christmas concert at Sutton Park

The Sutton Park Pavilion will set the stage for the Classic Christmas Concert in the Park on Friday...

Santa arrived at Holidays Around the Ranch at Lakewood Ranch Main Street Friday night in a horse-drawn carriage with a couple of green-clad elves. Photo JAMES A. JONES JR./jajones1@bradenton.com

Holidays Around the Ranch festival set for Friday

Holidays Around the Ranch opens Friday.

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The owner of this three-story home dating to 1927 has offered it free to anyone who can move it. Developers hope to build a new RV park on the site, which was tentatively approved Thursday by the Planning Commission.PAUL VIDELA/Bradenton Herald

Owners offer free 1927 house at site of proposed RV park in Palmetto

The Palmetto-area home, once nestled amid lush citrus groves, is on a site planned for an RV park.

Crime

Peter Mirnyi, false imprisonment, domestic battery, resisting arrest, no bond.

PHOTO GALLERY | Inmates booked in at Manatee jail on Dec. 13, 2013

Some of the latest arrivals at the Manatee County jail.

Sports

Lakewood Ranch High School's Aleah Robinson, right, puts up a shot during Thursday's game against Sarasota High School at Lakewood Ranch. PAUL VIDELA/Bradenton Herald

Girls basketball | Lakewood Ranch upends Sarasota in battle of state-ranked teams, district foes

Lakewood Ranch High Mustangs beat Sarasota Sailors 46-41 in Class 7A-District 10 girls basketball battle.

Business

The lobby of the Hampton Inn and Suites in downtown Bradenton is decorated for the holidays. The hotel will host an open house for the public Saturday. GRANT JEFFERIES/Bradenton Herald

Downtown Bradenton Hampton Inn hosting open house

New Hampton Inn & Suites in downtown Bradenton settling in after being in business for a month, following a $21 million renovation.

Opinion

Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the hope of persuading Congress to not forge any new economic sanctions on Iran that could break the recent historic agreement that would end Iranís progress toward weapons-grade uranium. The deal struck in Geneva prohibits the Obama administration from introducing new sanctions for six months. Iran's foreign minister has said any new package of commercial restrictions would break the agreement. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Andres Oppenheimer: Kerry's unfinished Latin American agenda

WASHINGTON -- When I asked U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry why the Obama administration has paid so little attention to Latin America, he disputed the premise of the question, while admitting that the biggest U.S. initiative in the region -- a...

Living

Flossie Paul and Mary Beth Steffens, Lakewood Ranch Women’s Club president, at the club's main fundraiser of the year, its Holiday Dinner and Auction, Wednesday at the Lakewood Ranch Country Club. The event included a raffle and silent auction to benefit the club's charities, SOLVE, HOPE and SMART. DIANE HARRISH/Special to the Herald

Click! Lakewood Ranch Women's Club Holiday Dinner and Auction

Photos | The Lakewood Ranch Women’s Club held its main fundraiser of the year, its Holiday Dinner and Auction, Saturday at the Lakewood Ranch Country Club. The event included a raffle and silent auction to benefit the club's charities, SOLVE...

Entertainment

Shane Evans, chief operating officer of Massage Heights, one of the largest massage chains in North America, must overcome her aversion to touching people when working as a massage therapist on "Undercover Boss." During a visit at the University Park spa, she tries to be a retreat director. The episode airs on CBS at 8 p.m. Friday. STUDIO LAMBERt/ CBS

University Park Massage Heights featured on CBS' 'Undercover Boss'

'Undercover Boss' comes to the Bradenton area with stop at Massage Heights on latest episode of reality TV series.

Lakewood Ranch

A sign announcing public hearings relating to the rezoning of agricultural land to planned development residential is posted along Rye Road where developers want to build the Del Tierra development. Residents in the neighboring Country Meadows development oppose the proposed density.TIFFANY TOMPKINS-CONDIE/Bradenton Herald

600-home East Manatee neighborhood gets OK by planning commission

600-home East Manatee neighborhood gets OK by planning commission

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