Ocala FL

I agree with Supervisor Lazenby. The purple seeds falling from the palm trees are unavoidable, messy, unsafe, and carry staining on our shoes to our homes. The trees are unnecessary and have overgrown their placement in small cut out areas in front of our mailboxes at the Belle Aire Postal Staion. I suggest that the...

City officials will vote on a request from the Ocala Sunset Rotary Club to designate a historic marker commemorating the day that 10-year-old Tom Petty visited Ocala and met Elvis Presley on the set of Follow That Dream. The Ocala City Council will issue a final decision on the ordinance...

Local police officers from Lady Lake and Fruitland Park teamed up with the Kiwanis Club of Lady Lake members Saturday morning to bring Christmas joy to area children and their families. Fifty children and their family members began arriving bright and early at the Target store at Rolling Acres Plaza.

The Ocala Christmas Parade—one of the oldest nighttime Christmas parades in the country—returned for another magical year.

OCALA, FL. (352today) – Meet Georgia, the longest resident at Marion County Animal Services. Despite arriving a little more than a year ago as a stray, Georgia is as joyful as ever. She anxiously awaits a forever home and has added it to her Christmas wish list. With a...

A suspect will be arraigned next month in the theft of five cases of beer from the Walmart at Buffalo Ridge Plaza in The Villages. Carlos Tillman, 43, of Ocala, will be arraigned on a felony charge of theft on Jan. 14 in Sumter County Court. He was arrested this past month on a warrant charging him in the case.

I don’t understand the one vote against the people wanting to put in a circular driveway. Who cares? They weren’t asking for anyone else to pay for it. And I really don’t understand why they have to prove a disability. It’s their lot and I say whatever they want to do is fine as long as they aren’t hurting anybody...

A Fruitland Park man wanted for retail theft was arrested after being stopped for driving with a suspended license. A deputy spotted 30-year-old Justin Mark Kott driving a vehicle without a working license plate light in Leesburg around 12 a.m. Tuesday, according to an arrest report from the Lake County Sheriff’s...

A Tavares man arrested for unpaid child support received additional charges for narcotics found on his person outside Shoppes of Northern Avenue. A deputy was in the parking lot of Shoppes of Northern Avenue in Leesburg when he spotted 34-year-old Christopher James Gist walking into Bassville Mart at 9:40 a.m....

Two Central Florida men were caught during an evening car burglary attempt. The attempted car burglary was reported to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to the crime scene at the Atlantica Town Center neighborhood off of Old Lake Wilson Road in Davenport. According to local law enforcement,...