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Charles Brady and his wife, Margie, hope one day they’ll get the call they’ve been longing for.
Call it The Scare at The Swamp.
A man suspected of robbing a convenience store Friday night and then hiding in an apartment was captured by police not long after the incident, according to officials.
Florida vs. Miami (Ohio): final 34-12
One person was killed and four others were injured in a two-vehicle crash near the Marion Oaks community late Friday night, according to Florida Highway Patrol troopers.
Every seat should have been filled. All 82,300 of them.
A 32-year-old woman who suffered several cuts on her body after climbing through a window was arrested early Saturday morning and charged with residential burglary and criminal mischief, according to officials.
The Manning Millwork and Door building between Northeast First Avenue and North Magnolia Avenue has had many lives since it was built in 1912.
A man is facing up to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to destroying government property by burying more than 5,000 pounds of refuse in the Ocala National Forest over a three-year stretch.
A 40-year-old Ocala man who thought he was meeting an 8-year-old girl for a sexual encounter was instead met by a sheriff’s detective who arrested him, according to officials.
Onie Ponder has straddled three centuries and lived the history most people only read about.
It was as American as baseball itself.
Nissan Mitsubishi on State Road 200 is the new owner of the eight acres that once made up the Bo Williams Buick Suzuki complex.
A major hospital chain intends to build a rehabilitation and physical therapy hospital in Marion County, but West Marion Community Hospital wants to expand to provide the same services.
Florida may have seen a slight population increase between 2009 and 2010, but experts at the University of Florida say the small boost indicates the economic recovery has a long way to go.