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Children can get a free book each week at the Ocala Downtown Market during the Heroes and Helpers summer literacy program and get to see a different miniature horse that matches each week’s featured book.

Deputies say they had to use stop sticks to end the car chase and a taser to stop 34-year-old Alexander Luis Jimenez-Torres from running away.

Deputies arrested 65-year-old Mark Grabenstein. According to authorities, he had unsupervised access to children for several years.

Belleview Pizza, a family owned and operated business, has closed after 50 years in business.

Joseph Lavdas is one of only 28 students nationwide selected to take part in the U.S. Navy Summer Flight Academy.

Police are searching for 25-year-old Alex Lopez. They say he should be considered armed and dangerous.

Cutrale will be moving it’s citrus packing to plant to one of its other locations this fall, laying off the workforce in two phases and closing the plant. See links to resources for workers who will soon be jobless.

Police say the driver of an Audi turned into the path of the motorcycle which had the right of way at the intersection.

Leesburg police say the robbery, shooting happened at the Fast Stop Superette on Picciola Road on Thursday around 9 p.m.