Ocala FL

The Marion County Planning and Zoning Commission will consider a proposal by the owners of the Golden Ocala Golf & Equestrian Club and the World Equestrian Center to build a new sports and entertainment complex in Ocala that would feature an arena for concerts and sporting events, a variety of fields and courts, a...

OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - June is PTSD Awareness Month and several non-profits in partnership with Marion County commissioners plan to mark the occasion with their annual PTSD awareness walk. This year, members of the Marion County Board of County Commissioners officially proclaimed June 27 as PTSD Awareness and Teal Out...

OCALA, FL (352today.com) — A two-vehicle crash in southwest Ocala sent one person to the hospital Thursday afternoon after a pickup truck overturned near Southwest Sixth Place. Ocala Fire Rescue responded just before 2 p.m. and found an SUV upright with three people who were able to walk away...

A Villager has been sentenced after shoving a dog walker at Brownwood Paddock Square. Bruce Belden Way, 72, of the Sandhill Villas in the Village of Duval, pleaded no contest to a charge of battery this past week in Sumter County Court. He has been placed on probation for one year.

Some Villagers will see adjustments in trash pickup over July 4. The District Office has provided the following information:. If you live in Village Community Development Districts 1-11 in the Sumter County, Marion County or Fruitland Park portions of The Villages, there will be no changes to the sanitation...

Facial recognition software has helped track down a hit-and-run suspect. Brandon Joles, 24, of Summerfield, is facing numerous charges after fleeing the scene of a hit-and-run crash June 19 which injured a female motorist. The Florida Highway Patrol investigated the crash in Ocala in which a white Toyota Rav4...

A 27-year-old motorcyclist was killed on Friday evening after a sedan turned in front of him at a Marion County intersection, marking the third fatal accident in the county in just over 24 hours. The fatal accident took place near the intersection of NE County Road 315 and NE 225th...

An 18-year-old Mount Dora man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old Leesburg man on Thursday evening, June 27, 2025. Leesburg Police Officers responded to the 1000 block of Tuskegee Street at approximately 7:00 PM after receiving reports of a shooting. Upon arrival, officers and ...

I wanted to share an idea for all you Villagers out there. Recently I was out and about in my neighborhood and I stopped a Village worker that I have seen several times on my walks. He tends to the sprinkler system on a main road where I live. I have passed several times in the year and a half we have lived here. He...

A Belleview man who called his ex-girlfriend over 160 times, in violation of a domestic violence injunction, will spend the next decade behind bars. On Wednesday, June 18, Marion County jurors convicted 37-year-old Brian Joseph Jankowski of aggravated stalking, violating a domestic injunction with two prior...