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WEIRSDALE, Fla. (WCJB) - A 69-year-old man from Lady Lake is dead after crashing his motorcycle in Marion County Tuesday night. Florida Highway Patrol troopers say the man was riding his motorcycle eastbound on Southeast 175th Street in Weirsdale at around 8:30 p.m. The man rode off the roadway and...

Retirement planning tends to steer everyone toward the same handful of Florida destinations, the ones with the golf courses and the gated communities. Those price tags have a habit of making you quietly recalculate how many more years you probably need to keep working. What that conversation rarely includes is...

A homeless man with a stolen shopping cart was arrested after he was found in the early morning hours outside a Publix grocery store in The Villages. Timothy Taylor, 54, was spotted at 2:40 a.m. Monday at the Publix at La Plaza Grande, according to an arrest report from the Lady Lake Police Department. Taylor, who was

We all know how congested the streets are in Ocala/Marion County. So often, I see and hear emergency vehicles trying to get around traffic stopped at traffic signals. There’s nowhere for people to move to get out of the way. I suggest that traffic signals all turn to red...

Jail (Unsplash) An Ocala man will spend the next 11 years and 8 months in...

A Villager and his son both got holes-in-one while golfing Tuesday in Florida’s Friendliest Hometown. Kenny Kussard, who lives in the Village of La Reynalda, was golfing with his son Bob Kussard, who lives in Summerfield, at the Hill Top Executive Golf Course when the father struck first with a lucky ace at Hole #2. No

OCALA, Florida - A 37-year-old correctional officer from Citra has been sentenced to over a year in federal prison for accepting a bribe and smuggling contraband into a federal facility. Michael Jason Brooks, who worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex i

A laid-back pool afternoon in Leesburg turned surreal when a local couple walked inside and said they found a stranger casually brewing coffee in their kitchen. The homeowners told investigators the uninvited visitor had moved items around, left cabinet doors hanging open, and walked off without a small blue Disney “El

A woman is suing a pair of Ocala homeowners for premises liability, alleging she suffered permanent injuries after stepping into a hidden, trench-like hole that had been concealed by overgrown grass in their yard. Tina L. Allen filed the lawsuit against Brandon Myers and Ann Marie Myers, if the Fifth...

A local man who has turned his life around will have to pay $5,500 in incarceration fees from nearly a decade ago after Marion County commissioners forgave the interest and maintained the full balance of a civil restitution lien that has been preventing him from purchasing his first home. During...