Ocala FL

The new medians on State Road 200 please only those who designed them. Having to drive extra blocks to go to a business on the opposite side of the street is creating more problems than they were trying to solve. Traffic that is backed up to turn has created a hazard.

A new bakery that serves coffee, hand-rolled bagels, sourdoughs and other baked goods has just opened its doors in downtown Ocala. Night Owl Bakery has officially opened for business at 56 SE 1st Avenue. The new business replaced the old Soleil, which consolidated its two locations into one earlier this year.

An elderly man suffered a broken arm in an altercation with panhandlers at a shopping plaza in The Villages. The man was struck by a metal cane during the attack Friday afternoon by two men who were outside Subway at Spanish Plaines Shopping Center. The men, later identified as 52-year-old...

For nearly a decade, Marion County has consistently had one of the five highest drug overdose rates in the state, with the county having recorded over 1,500 overdose deaths since 2015. According to the Florida Department of Health, the state has recorded 56,559 “age-adjusted deaths from drug poisoning” since 2015....

Life sentences were imposed against two men found guilty of what prosecutors said was a violent, brutal holdup where the victims were held at gunpoint. Here's what we know about that and other cases heard at the Marion County Judicial Center the week of Nov. 17: State v. Ronald Cyril Ganser & Mark J. Cambre Judge:...

A Marion County resident died in a vehicle crash in another county the afternoon of Nov. 23. Here's what we know: Where was the crash? On County Road 53 north of County Road 250 in Lafayette County, west of Live Oak. .oembed-frame { width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0; border: 0; } ...

In a world dominated by streaming services and smartphone screens, there exists a magical place where cinema still unfolds beneath a canopy of stars. The Ocala Drive-In offers Florida residents and visitors alike a chance to experience movies the way previous generations did—from the comfort of their own vehicles,...

OCALA, FL (352today.com) – Ocala area residents looking for fuel up before the big Thanksgiving road trip are paying among the highest prices in Florida for gas as the price of fuel rises ahead of the holiday. According to a report by the American Automobile Association, gas prices in...

A belligerent Villager was arrested after her refusal to leave the hospital where her boyfriend was being treated. Layne Carta Davis Wolitzer, 64, who lives on the Historic Side of The Villages, was at UF Health Spanish Plaines Hospital on Sunday afternoon when she “became belligerent with hospital staff over the...

A 31-year-old convicted felon from Ocala who attempted to sell a firearm to a pawn shop has been sentenced to five years in federal prison. On Friday, November 21, U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber sentenced Shymiere Montese Howell to five years’ imprisonment for possession of a firearm and ammunition affecting...