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LEESBURG, Fla. - A FedEx delivery driver is accused of stealing nine brand-new iPhone 17s valued at nearly $11,000 from a shipping facility, according to Leesburg Police. Leesburg Police say FedEx driver Eduardo Jose Valles Villamizar, 28, stole nine iPhone 17s valued at nearly $11,000 from a distribution center....

OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - Marion County School Board members are talking about a plan to allow gun-sniffing dogs in elementary schools. Board members hope to have a policy worked out by the end of the month. They talked about the plan during a workshop on Thursday. The discussion continues on...

The music was shut down Wednesday night at Lake Sumter Landing after a performer suffered a medical episode. The Village Entertainment Department announced that the entertainment was ending at the Pavilion due to the emergency. The scheduled performer was Hacksaw Hamlin. The act frequently performs in The Villages as...

A Lady Lake man arrested this past week with a Bloody Mary in a Polar Pop cup landed in jail again after he was arrested after stopping at a 7-Eleven. A deputy spotted 49-year-old Billy Rex Whitehead in a blue Dodge Caliber leaving the 7-Eleven at U.S. 301 and SE Hwy. 42 near The Villages at about 2:15 a.m. Thursday,...

I moved to Ocala some 12 years ago to avoid the big city of Orlando. Even though I work out of Orlando and make the commute, I might as well be living in Orlando with the influx of everyone who’s moved here. I can’t believe the best idea to...

An unlicensed driver from Mexico was arrested at a motel in Wildwood. Norberto Aguilar Sanchez, 40, was driving a silver 2005 Ford Escape at 7:21 p.m. Wednesday when he pulled into the Quality Suites on State Road 44 where he has been living, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. A...

A Villager was arrested after “hostile behavior” at a local phone store. Sooksiri Rittirucksa, 73, who lives in the San Miguel Villas, needed help with an app on her cell phone and went at about 5 p.m. Monday to the Verizon store at Lady Lake Crossing on U.S. Hwy. 27/441, according to an arrest report from the Lady...

In newly exchanged discovery materials obtained in the case of Coy vs. Billy Woods, former Marion County Jail medical liaison Mary Tolbert Coy expounds on allegations that jail leadership and its medical contractor, the Heart of Florida Health Center, repeatedly ignored warnings of substandard inmate care—even as...

Disease specialists emphasize importance of vaccines amid state effort to rescind mandates. Four infectious disease specialists held a roundtable at the University of Florida to emphasize the importance of vaccines for everyone despite state leaders' push to phase out vaccine mandates. Horseshoe Beach resident...

A former Tallahassee teacher is now serving a state prison sentence for misconduct with a student. According to state records, Sophina Webb arrived at the Florida Women’s Reception Center in Marion County on Monday. According to the arrest papers, she taught English at a Leon County high school. She...