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Jim DeLa

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Sarasota
As seen in: Observer Media Group, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News, Yahoo Sports Canada, WUSF Public Media, Yahoo, Yahoo Style Canada, Yahoo Movies Canada, KPHO-TV (Phoenix, AZ), Sarasota Herald-Tribune, WXIX-TV (Cincinnati, OH) and
Covers:  Aviation/space, education, general assignment
Doesn't Cover: Business
Jim is a journalist and photographer in Sarasota, Fla. Reporter for the Community News Collaborative/WUSF Public Media

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Jim DeLa is the digital content producer for ABC7 (WWSB-TV) in Sarasota Florida. He has served in a variety of roles over the past four decades, working in television, radio and newspapers in Florida, Colorado and Hawaii. He was most recently a reporter with the Community News Collaborative, part of WUSF-FM, producing journalism on a variety of topics in Sarasota, Manatee and DeSoto counties; and was a digital producer for the Observer Media Group in Sarasota. Areas of interest include aviation…

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Woman changed with smashing up Sarasota bar, burglarizing other businesses

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By Jim DeLa Verified
| WWSB-TV (Sarasota, FL) Verified
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A woman has been arrested on burglary charges after deputies say she smashed up a local Sarasota watering hole and two other businesses. The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office says at about 4 a.m. of June 4, Kara Jane Rose Plocharsky, 31, smashed the front door of the 8 Ball Lounge on Webber Road just before 4:00 a.m. Surveillance footage shows a female wearing a motorcycle helmet as she shatters the front door and enters the establishment.
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Two drivers injured when blowout causes collision on I-75

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By Jim DeLa Verified
| WWSB-TV (Sarasota, FL) Verified
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Two people are in serious condition after a tire blowout caused a collision on I-75 at Clark Road Thursday morning, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Investigators say just before 7 a.m., a Ford sedan was entering I-75 from the southbound on-ramp of Clark Road when a tire blew. A semi-trailer in the right lane of I-75 tried to avoid the sedan by entering the center lane but the semi hit the left side of the sedan, rotated and overturned in the grass median.
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Tourists in The Bahamas warned not to use jet skis, citing sex assaults, injuries

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By Jim DeLa Verified
| WWSB-TV (Sarasota, FL) Verified
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The U.S. Embassy in The Bahamas is warning U.S. citizens to avoid accepting rides from jet ski operators after incidents of women being sexually assaulted. Embassy officials in Nassau have received several reports of jet ski operators sexually assaulting American women; two already this year, two in 2025 and three in 2024.
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