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A Lady Lake man was arrested after being stopped at a gas station with a loaded firearm and narcotic residue in his vehicle. An officer stopped a four-door Chevrolet with blue headlights at the BP gas station, located at 1300 N 14th St., around 12:55 a.m. Wednesday, according to an arrest report from the Leesburg...

A Summerfield woman was arrested for battery after allegedly throwing a metal cup at her boyfriend’s head during an argument. A deputy investigating a battery found the boyfriend of 62-year-old Lori Hanlon in the back of an ambulance at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, according to an arrest report from the Marion County Sheriff’s...

A man was arrested after a post-vacation altercation with his girlfriend over money. Austin Sapp, 38, was arrested Saturday on a charge of battery stemming from an incident in November in the Parkwood community in Oxford. In that incident, Sapp and his girlfriend had returned from an out-of-state vacation, according...

An Ocala man claimed a $15 million prize from a scratch-off that he purchased at a local gas earlier this year. David Keith Rubin claimed the grand prize on June 18 for a winning $15,000,000 Gold Rush Multiplier scratch-off game. Rubin purchased the winning ticket at the Circle K located at 5201 S Pine Avenue in...

Here's a look at some new restaurants expected to open in 2026 (or late 2025.) To learn more, follow the links in this story at ocala.com Raising Cane's Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers is expected to open a newly built store in the Ocala West shopping center off State Road 200 in Ocala. Learn more here. Equestrian...

A cleaning lady allegedly stole pills and ran up illicit charges on a customers’s credit card. An 85-year-old homeowner in The Villages reported that 72 prescription Alprazolam pills had gone missing from her home, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. The homeowner had last seen the...

An Ocala resident just claimed a $1 million prize from a scratch-off purchased at a local convenience store, joining several other local residents who have claimed similar prizes in 2025. The winning ticket was purchased at Quick King Food Store #12, which is located at 7947 W Highway 40 in...

After an influx of letters from Marion County residents who have criticized recent changes made to State Road 200, multiple readers shared opinions contrasting those. Here are a couple of those letters:. “I am so tired of seeing all these letters breach the level of worthy news and wasting valuable...

Amanda May Shrewsberry, 39, of Ocala, was arrested on Saturday and has been charged with shoplifting a portable movie projector and a boat sonar device; she also allegedly fought with a police officer and Walmart employees in an attempt to avoid arrest. The post Ocala woman arrested for shoplifting movie projector...

Is there a reason that people believe it is OK to ruin the beautiful grass areas in The Villages? Special privilege maybe? We see it especially on the west side of the golf cart bridge in Spanish Springs. Our amenities spent a lot of money replacing sod and maintaining the area. When I talked to property management...