Ocala FL

Newly released body camera footage shows how a routine traffic stop in Summerfield escalated into a deputy-involved shooting last summer, leaving a patrol car riddled with bullets and a deputy narrowly injured.

MARION COUNTY, Fla. (WCJB) - A 27-year-old man was arrested Friday after deputies say he attacked an elderly person with a metal pipe during an argument about cleaning his room. Jacob Small was charged following the incident, according to Marion County Sheriff’s deputies. Deputies say Small hit the victim...

OCALA, Fla. (WKRC) - A man allegedly executed a stranger who was tending to his home garden by shooting him in the back of the head in a random act of violence. Police received a 911 call at 3:34 p.m. from a man who said he was pulling out of his driveway when he was approached by a suspicious person wearing all...

A Marion County man died Jan. 10 in an all-terrain vehicle crash in northern Polk County. Travis Sneden, 32, of Fort McCoy was driving a 2018 green Kawasaki ATV at about 3:30 p.m. and attempted to travel down a steep cut with an approximate 24- to 30-inch vertical drop, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said in a...

A 35-year-old Ocala woman with a prior armed robbery conviction was arrested after she allegedly stole more than 88 different items worth over $1,000 from a local Walmart. Back on Tuesday, November 25, an Ocala Police Department officer arrived at the Walmart located at 4980 E Silver Springs Boulevard in reference to...

Organizers announced a star-studded list of at least 16 musical acts that will perform in Ocala later this year as part of the third installment of Rock The Country, including the best-selling duo in country music history. On Monday morning, Rock The Country announced its lineups for eight shows in...

A persistent panhandler was arrested after returning to a Publix grocery store in The Villages. Brian Stanley Pacific, 67, who is homeless, went at about 8 a.m. Thursday to the store at La Plaza Grande and purchased a four-pack of Coors Light beer, according to an arrest report from the Lady Lake Police Department....

INVERNESS, Fla. - A middle school student is dead, and another is in the hospital after a hand-dug hole collapsed in Citrus County. It happened Saturday at Sportsman Park in Inverness. According to the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office, the surviving teen is in critical condition at a hospital. According...

THE VILLAGES, FL (352today.com) – A few hundred individuals gathered at 10 a.m. on the brisk, sunny morning of Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, along Morse Boulevard in The Villages to protest the killing of Renee Good by an agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis, MN on Jan. 7.

An Orlando woman who was arrested on drug charges blamed the officer when she gave a false name to jail staff. An officer was conducting a traffic stop at U.S. Hwy. 27/441 and Berckman Street when an SUV passed by around 10:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 2, according to an arrest report from the Fruitland Park Police...