
Detectives say Steven Matychak met the 15-year-old girl through an online chat app.

Surpassing its 2022 record of over $771,000, the 2023 Give4Marion donation blitz hit seven digits this year with a grand total of $1,400,135!

When a local veterinarian office worker found a stray dog in her yard, she tried to bring it to work to see if it had a microchip. On the way, she got into a car wreck, and the dog disappeared… but she was found again thanks to community effort.

Jasmine Colon was last seen on Friday, Sept. 15 in the Inverness area.

Record numbers of Americans are now insured through state-affiliated “insurers of last resort.” In Florida, Citizens Property Insurance Corp. now has 1.4 million homeowners’ policies in effect, nearly triple in five years.

Lillian “Lily” Cain was last seen in the Leesburg area wearing a t-shirt and blue jeans.

Jordan Castell and Cam Jackson are the latest Gators to receive SEC honors in the same week since O’Cyrus Torrence and Trevor Etienne did in November of last season.

With 2,853 votes cast in the race, Ire Bethea, Sr. easily won re-election garnering almost 68% of the vote.

It took crews around 30 minutes to rescue the steer.
Ocala and Marion County need to be counted in the American Horse Council’s annual economic survey. Horse owners and industry workers can complete it through Sept. 29 and may even win prizes.