Local
2 years ago
North-central Florida cold weather shelters set to open for chilly nights this week

Overnight temperatures Tuesday and Wednesday nights are expected to be in the 30s across the 352. That is prompting some communities to activate cold weather shelter programs for the homeless.

Local
2 years ago
Safely dispose of all that peanut oil from your fried turkey. Ocala will recycle it today until 2 p.m.

The cooking oil recycling day will be held on Monday, Nov. 27, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Ocala Wetland Recharge Park.

Community
2 years ago
Road work to cause delays on a mile stretch of a Gainesville roadway starting today

Crews are scheduled to begin resurfacing Southwest 46th Boulevard from the intersection of Northwest 75th Street near Kimball Wiles Elementary School and end at Southwest 91st Street.

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
UPDATE: CCSO says man they shot has died. Deputies identify him as a ‘career criminal’

“None of our deputies ever WANT to use lethal force, but they are prepared to if it means saving countless others,” said Col. Elena Vitt of the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office.

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
Sheriff: “It is rare that a case this horrific occurs in Citrus County”

Citrus County Sheriff’s deputies say they made a gruesome discovery on Thanksgiving Day – a dismembered man in the trunk of his car and another with man with a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a house.

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
Brooksville man charged with man’s murder, accused of dumping body on dead-end road

Hernando County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 53-year-old R W Resca Jr. and charged him in connection with the crime.

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
Citrus County Sheriff’s Office finds man dead in car trunk on Thanksgiving Day

Deputies also found a man in a home suffering with what they say appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. They say the injured man is a suspect in the killing.

Community
2 years ago
The “Worky Turkey” returns to Marion County, firefighters make Thanksgiving easier for crews on duty

“Worky Turkey” is an initiative by the Professional Fire Fighters of Marion County (PFFMC) to make Thanksgiving a little less stressful to those responding to emergencies.

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
OPD makes arrest in connection to New Year’s Day double murder shooting

The Ocala Police Department says 19-year-old Lebron Jones was one of the shooters who ambushed a party of 100 people on New Year’s Day.

Local
2 years ago
VIDEO: GPD releases bodycam footage of traffic stop turned water rescue, man dies despite attempts to save him

GPD says it’s releasing the unredacted video “in the interest of transparency and accountability.”