Ocala FL

The Ocala Christmas Parade—one of the oldest nighttime Christmas parades in the country—returned for another magical year.

OCALA, FL. (352today) – Meet Georgia, the longest resident at Marion County Animal Services. Despite arriving a little more than a year ago as a stray, Georgia is as joyful as ever. She anxiously awaits a forever home and has added it to her Christmas wish list. With a...

A suspect will be arraigned next month in the theft of five cases of beer from the Walmart at Buffalo Ridge Plaza in The Villages. Carlos Tillman, 43, of Ocala, will be arraigned on a felony charge of theft on Jan. 14 in Sumter County Court. He was arrested this past month on a warrant charging him in the case.

I don’t understand the one vote against the people wanting to put in a circular driveway. Who cares? They weren’t asking for anyone else to pay for it. And I really don’t understand why they have to prove a disability. It’s their lot and I say whatever they want to do is fine as long as they aren’t hurting anybody...

A Fruitland Park man wanted for retail theft was arrested after being stopped for driving with a suspended license. A deputy spotted 30-year-old Justin Mark Kott driving a vehicle without a working license plate light in Leesburg around 12 a.m. Tuesday, according to an arrest report from the Lake County Sheriff’s...

A Tavares man arrested for unpaid child support received additional charges for narcotics found on his person outside Shoppes of Northern Avenue. A deputy was in the parking lot of Shoppes of Northern Avenue in Leesburg when he spotted 34-year-old Christopher James Gist walking into Bassville Mart at 9:40 a.m....

Two Central Florida men were caught during an evening car burglary attempt. The attempted car burglary was reported to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to the crime scene at the Atlantica Town Center neighborhood off of Old Lake Wilson Road in Davenport. According to local law enforcement,...

A 21-year-old Ocala woman was arrested outside a local bar after reportedly leading Marion County Sheriff’s Office deputies on a high-speed chase with speeds exceeding 100 mph. On Thursday, November 20, an MCSO deputy observed a gray sedan driving at a high speed on SE Maricamp Road. According to...

It was standing room only inside Courtroom 1 at the Marion County Judicial Center on Dec. 12 when 18 boys and girls were adopted by multiple families. Presiding over the annual "Home for the Holidays" ceremony was Circuit Judge Stacy Youmans. Some of the dignitaries in attendance were judges, Ocala's mayor and a...

An Entertainment Department staffer will not be prosecuted in connection with a Halloween incident at Brownwood Paddock Square. The prosecutor’s office issued an announcement earlier this month that the evidence against 43-year-old Brian Joseph Mullany of Ocala is “legally insufficient” to prove his guilt. He had...