Internal City Auditor Vincent Lovino found that a skipped EFT verification let a scammer take a city vendor payment, that a former manager’s misleading statements delayed the official response, and that insurance cut the city’s loss to $27,799.81.
Commissioners voted 5-0 to raise the countywide rate to 4.28 mills and set a $1.73 billion tentative budget, with final action set for Sept. 24.
The ordinance names e-cigarettes, kratom and kratom products, allowing existing shops to remain while barring new ones from opening within 1,500 feet of a school, daycare, church or park.
Two years after Lindsey Ardmore found a lump in Italy and waited months for a mammogram, her Oct. 15 Black Out Gala aims to pay for the screenings local imaging centers still will not give young women.
Mike Mills and Brigitte Smith will face voters on November 3, 2026 in the Marion County School Board District 4 runoff, with reading scores, discipline and school safety at the center of the race.
This is the first story in a 352today series on the cost of living in Marion County—not just the numbers, but the people living on them.
The approval allows funds for Florida’s State Housing Initiatives Program can keep reaching recipients until the state replenishes the program’s account.
Marion County Public Schools says no decision has been made on rezoning Wyomina Park Elementary after August community meetings.
Commissioners on Tuesday authorized staff to complete leftover Segment 1B purchases for the west-side corridor meant to ease traffic off SR 200 and I-75.
Neither business can sell until its state license is in place; police did not object to either site.
