Ocala FL

Hundreds of residents and officials gathered in southwest Ocala on Monday morning to celebrate the grand opening of the newly expanded Freedom Public Library, which essentially quadrupled in size. The ribbon-cutting ceremony, held on April 13 at 10:30 a.m., marked the culmination of a project more than a decade in...

A Lady Lake man was arrested after allegedly throwing a pregnant woman holding a child across the room. Officers responded to a possible assault on a pregnant woman at an undisclosed Lady Lake residence around 9:10 p.m. Thursday, according to an arrest report from the Lady Lake Police Department. When speaking to her outside, she stated 24-year-old Jacob Andrew Godinez began...

OCALA, FL (352today.com) – Todd Rundgren, the revered songwriter, producer and performer who’s been active, innovative and influential in American music and culture for more than half a century, has announced an Ocala stop on his upcoming “Damned If I Do” summer tour. He and his...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed a hold on a native of Mexico who was arrested after he was caught behind the wheel despite previous drunk driving convictions. An officer spotted a black 2019 Dodge pickup truck without a working tag light near the intersection of Main and West...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier Florida officials just pulled off a massive recovery operation, clawing...

A 75-year-old man visiting from Maine has died after his golf cart overturned in a violent collision with a car at the intersection of Martinez Drive and North Morse Boulevard in The Villages on March 30. Video of the impact and a Florida Highway Patrol crash diagram reviewed by troopers show the cart making a left turn when it is hit, causing...

CITRA, Fla. (WCJB) — The mother from Marion County accused of aggravated manslaughter in the death of her three-year-old daughter intends to plead an insanity defense. Attorneys for Jennifer Kendrick, 26, claim she is incapable of knowing right from wrong. Paisley Brown, 3, was killed at a home in Citra in February following abuse allegedly committed by her boyfriend, Jeroen Coombs, 32.

WILLISTON, Fla. (CBS12) — Two people were killed after a small single-engine plane crashed Monday afternoon in a rural area near Gainesville. According to officers with the Levy County Sheriff's Office the crash happened around 3:30 p.m. at the intersection of Northeast 30th Street and 114th Avenue, several miles from Williston regional Airport.

Leesburg Police traffic homicide investigators on April 13 arrested 29-year-old Evan Garcia of Ocklawaha in connection with the April 10 hit-and-run crash that took the life of 40-year-old Ashleah Hayes. Garcia was arrested on a charge of leaving the scene of a crash involving death [Florida Statute 316.027(2)(c)]. According to a police news release, the agency...

After multiple Marion County residents shared stories lamenting the diminishing presence for their preferred grocer, Winn-Dixie, Ocala-News.com received letters from residents of other counties with similar sentiments. “It’s a real shame they are closing so many Winn-Dixie stores around Florida. It is even happening in Volusia County and surrounding counties....