Ocala FL

A dead Villager’s house with a reverse mortgage has eroded into a neighborhood eyesore. The property at 2051 Thurmond Ave. in the Mount Vernon Villas in the Village of Liberty Park was the subject of a public hearing Friday morning before the Community Development District 5 Board of Supervisors at SeaBreeze...

Jaishun Mikal Darrien Turner, 24, of Reddick, and two Marion County juveniles -- Lynden Maysonet, 14, and Kameryn Nehemiah Copeland, 16 -- were charged with armed robbery and aggravated battery after a resident of the Crossing at Santa Fe Apartments was shot on July 30. The post Reddick man and two Marion County...

LEVY COUNTY, FL (352today.com) – On May 30, 2024 Justin Bryant, 37. of Morriston embarked on a drug fueled mission of murder. In a short time frame, he brutally stabbed and cut four people in a normally quiet Morriston neighborhood. No clear-cut motive for this crime was ever established. Thankfully, no life was lost...

We would love a White Castle here in The Villages. Their burgers are unique and delicious. They have wonderful onion rings and malts. Everything is reasonably priced.

A Wildwood man was arrested after confessing to shooting a person with a BB gun from a third-story window at PepperTree Apartments. An officer met with 22-year-old Issac Joseph Lee Kinchens at the Wildwood Police Department for a follow-up investigation around 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, according to an arrest report from...

A big crowd of Villagers showed up Thursday at the Community Development District 10 Board of Supervisors meeting demanding an end to the anonymous complaint system. So many people showed up at the meeting at SeaBreeze Recreation Center, that extra chairs had to be hauled into accommodate them. Lorraine McDonald...

Teens from Connecticut and New York were charged for swatting incidents in Central Florida. “Swatting” calls are false reports of violent emergencies that are intended to elicit a response from law enforcement, particularly from SWAT units. Two teen suspects from New York and Connecticut have been arrested on...

A Villager’s son has landed back behind bars after flunking a drug test. Timothy Harold Barnhorst, 52, who lives with his mother at 1107 Sayle St. in the Village of Virginia Trace, was being held without bond at the Marion County Jail for violating his probation. Earlier this year,...

MARION COUNTY, Fla. – An Ocala man died and a Belleview woman was arrested in a single-vehicle crash early Saturday in Marion County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash occurred around 2:30 a.m. on State Road 35 near SE 102 Place Road, troopers said. According to an...

The Florida Lottery recently announced that Jennifer HercherAllen, of Tarpon Springs, claimed a $1 million top prize from The Cash Wheel scratch-off game. The Pinellas County woman chose to receive her winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $605,016.40. The Central Florida winner purchased her winning ticket...