Ocala FL

ORLANDO, Fla. – Sunday morning starts with patchy, dense fog in some areas. A dense fog advisory was in effect for Marion County, with visibility reduced to less than a quarter mile, but was set to expire at 9 a.m. A front settles in on Sunday and isolated showers...

A renter was detained during a raid on a drug house on The Villages’ Historic Side. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office requested that Lady Lake police respond to the residence at 1787 W. Schwartz Blvd. in the Village of Country Club Hills around 10:30 p.m. Saturday. It was thought that there were two people at the...

A 15-time convicted felon was recently arrested for shooting a pregnant woman in Central Florida, also striking her unborn baby. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested the man for shooting his pregnant girlfriend. Brandon Regional Hospital notified HCSO that a pregnant woman was dropped off at the...

A Leesburg man with a club band still on his wrist was arrested on a drunk driving charge at a Circle K. An officer caught 40-year-old Demetrius Antonion Bradford speeding in a black Dodge Charger on Citrus Boulevard and Tally Road around 3:05 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 3, according to an arrest report from the Leesburg...

The family of an Ocala man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a restaurant at Walt Disney World, alleging that a delay in summoning paramedics contributed to his death after he choked on a piece of steak. Reah Duncan, the mother and personal representative of the estate of Kevin...

CASSELBERRY, Fla. – The frustration surrounding the Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE officers this week has sparked thousands of protests nationwide, including here in Central Florida. Protesters lined Triplet Lake Drive in Casselberry, saying the ICE officers involved in Renee Good’s death need to be held...

A Villager has been jailed without bond after violating a court order. Kara Lynne Johnson, 48, of the Village of Chitty Chatty, was book Friday night at the Sumter County Detention Center. She had been released on $3,000 bond on Dec. 9 in connection with a violent incident involving a...

A Leesburg man was arrested on battery charges after allegedly strangling his girlfriend during an argument on the road. Deputies responded to 26-year-old Jordan Jacob Kroll beating up his girlfriend of eight months in a vehicle on Whitney Road and Garden Drive at 2:45 p.m. Monday, according to an arrest report from...

FLORIDA — A 32-year-old man from Fort McCoy died Saturday afternoon following an ATV crash at an off-road park in Lakeland, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff’s officials said the crash occurred around 3 p.m. at the Rancho Bonito ATV park. The man was riding a 2018 Kawasaki ATV when he traveled...

One person was extricated from a car and multiple patients were transported to a local hospital this evening after a two-vehicle crash north of Hawthorne. The post PHOTOS: Crews extricate occupant from car after crash on CR 219A appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .