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OCALA, FL (352today.com) – Norman Kenneth Schutt was born in Saginaw, Mich, and grew up during the Great Depression, without a lot of money, understanding the challenges that come with adversity. Monday, March 16, 2026, was an opportunity to celebrate Schutt’s 100th birthday, and thank him for his dedicated...

Manes Pierre (SAO5) A 58-year-old man faces sentencing after a Marion County jury found him...

Several more readers have written in to share opinions about development in Marion County. These are a few of those letters:. “I agree with the reader regarding over growth. They continue to remove trees at a rapid rate, continue to fill our beautiful countryside with houses while our property values plummet. The...

“The Perfect Neighbor,” a documentary that chronicles the fatal shooting of Ajike “A.J.” Owens by her Ocala neighbor, Susan Lorincz, lost the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film. On Sunday night, ​”The Perfect Neighbor” fell short of winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film at...

What attorney John Bryan lays out in his video about Rodney Sebastian Harmon is disturbing not just because of the force used, but because of how quickly what looked like a medical crisis was treated like a street confrontation, and then, according to Bryan’s reading of the footage, like a cover-your-own-bases...

A man was struck and killed by a train in Ocala on Sunday morning, marking at least the fourth local pedestrian to die from an accident this year. Ocala Police Department Officers responded to the 500 block of SW 3rd Street at approximately 7:53 a.m. on Sunday, March 15, after receiving reports of a person being...

A woman living in The Villages was arrested after she allegedly slapped the father of their children. Stephanie Elaine Russett, 31, who is currently living in the Village of Osceola Hills, was arrested Sunday after a domestic disturbance at the Solamar development in Wildwood, according to an arrest report from the...

A freeze warning was issued by the National Weather Service in Jacksonville at 12:52 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17. This warning applies to Bradford, Gilchrist, Eastern Alachua, Western Alachua, Central Marion and Western Marion counties. The NWS warns: "Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold." Ocala area...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Authorities in some North Central Florida counties are lifting burn bans as drought conditions improve due to recent rainfall. Marion and Levy County officials announced that mandatory burn bans were lifted on Tuesday. Last week, Alachua County officials extended the county burn ban through...

An Ocala Walmart employee was arrested for allegedly stealing from the store nearly 40 times over a two-month period. Last week, a loss prevention associate at the Walmart located at 34 Bahia Avenue in Ocala informed the Marion County Sheriff’s Office that an employee, 21-year-old Jafet Alberto Martinez Ruiz, had...