Ocala FL

A terrified clerk confronted with a gun cleaned out the cash register for two robbers at a little mom-and-pop convenience store in Summerfield. Deputies responded to a robbery at Little Orange Groceries on U.S. 301 in Summerfield around 7:55 p.m. Tuesday, according to an arrest report from the Marion County Sheriff’s...

MARION COUNTY, Fla. – A 42-year-old man was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of stealing a Marion County Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicle and leading deputies on a high-speed chase. James Marion Brady’s conviction came after a one-day jury trial in the Fifth Judicial...

MARION COUNTY, Fla. – Charges have been dropped against a former employee of a Marion County day care who was fired following her arrest on accusations of child abuse, records show. State prosecutors on Thursday filed an announcement of “no information” in the case of Karla Loenie Gonzalez Penalverty,...

A Villager was arrested after she was caught panhandling on a median. Lucretia Merry Hewson, 51, who lives on the Historic Side of The Villages, was spotted Wednesday on the median at the intersection of U.S. Hwy. 441 and SE Hwy. 42 in Summerfield, not far from Mulberry Grove Plaza in The Villages, according to an...

A Leesburg man was arrested after allegedly fleeing from a traffic stop to his grandmother’s shed to avoid being caught by law enforcement. A deputy saw 27-year-old Travis Lamont Hanberry driving a white Mitsubishi eastbound in the center lane of U.S. Hwy. 441 around 11:20 a.m. Sunday, according to an arrest report...

A Marion County man has been found guilty of first-degree murder in connection with a robbery-turned-fatal-shooting that claimed the life of a 40-year-old man in 2023. Last week, Marion County jurors briefly deliberated before finding 48-year-old Michael Rene Montgomery, Jr. guilty of first-degree murder with a...

Unfortunately, no matter how much we write about this, nothing will get done, I am very sad to say. Further up north there is accessibility to every store, what is wrong with the development that’s happening down south? We live in the Fenney area, where we cannot even get over to the gas station at Warm Springs, and...

I am a senior citizen born in Ocala and I have to say that you are right on about your complaints. I’ve grown up here from the 50’s, there wasn’t anything for young folks to do here. The infrastructure has not kept up with the growth of the area.

I have been a resident of The Villages for 10 years. I live in Osceola Hills which is the village just north of the intersection of State Road 44 and Morse Boulevard. I do not understand why the county is only now reviewing potential road work to ease the inevitable traffic that is going to explode once the Walmart...

OCALA, FL (352today.com) – For decades, stories of a shadowy figure known as the “Dark Man” have circulated among locals and visitors to the Ocala National Forest. Described as a tall silhouette appearing along remote forest roads and trails, the figure is often said to vanish when approached or when illuminated by...