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OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - A former corrections officer from Ocala has been sentenced to three years in prison for accepting about $44,000 in bribes to smuggle drugs into a correctional facility. Samuel Smith, 38, who served as an officer at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Sumter County, will also...

OCALA, FL (352today.com) – The Ocala Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying a man suspected in both a retail theft and a vehicle theft. At the time of the incident, he was wearing a dark and light multi-colored sweater with yellow accents, black pants, and black and white sneakers.

MARION COUNTY, FL (352today.com) – A 50-year-old Silver Springs man died Thursday afternoon in a motorcycle crash along a forest road in eastern Marion County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP). The single-vehicle crash happened around 3:41 p.m. on July 31, about 1.18 miles south of National Forest...

An Ocklawaha woman was arrested after her nervous behavior led to the discovery of narcotics in her vehicle during a stop at Holiday Inn Express. A deputy stopped 41-year-old Jennifer Ann Radford in a gold 2004 Volvo S80 in the Holiday Inn Express parking lot on State Road 44 in Wildwood, around 5:40 p.m. Wednesday,...

After Ocala-News.com published a story about a local artisanal microdistillery facing the possibility of losing its special use permit to operate its business, multiple readers shared their opinions on the matter. Here are a couple of those letters:. “We took the tour of the distillery and had a drink while...

A developer who was denied a request to create 151 more apartments next to a site that’s already been approved for 869 other apartments has filed a dispute with the state, claiming Marion County officials acted in an “unlawful” manner that “unfairly burdens the use of the property.”

OCALA, FL (352today.com) – An encounter with a deaf man was the life experience that Ocala student Scarlett Phillips needed to pursue her goals. It was something that combined the 17-year-old rising senior’s love of language and law, a profession she knew she wanted to pursue since the age of 10. But it wasn’t until...

A Villager has been arrested on a warrant charging him with possession of methamphetamine. Paul Joseph Beck, 56, who lives in the St. Simons Villas in the Village of Belle Aire, was driving a white 2003 Ford F-150 at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday when a deputy ran the license plate number and found the vehicle’s...

An elderly man has filed a lawsuit against a Publix in Ocala, claiming an employee struck him with a train of carts near the entrance of the grocery store and left him with “substantial and permanent injuries.”. Kent Sloan and his wife, Melodie, filed the lawsuit against Publix Super...

A Marion County man who pleaded guilty to fentanyl and cocaine distribution charges will spend the next 20 years in federal prison. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber sentenced 49-year-old Reddick resident Alfred Charles Denmark, Jr. to two decades behind bars for possession with intent to distribute...