Community
2 years ago
Ocali Country Days returns to Silver Springs State Park this weekend

Admission is just $8 per person for ages six and older. Children under the age of five get in FREE.

Sports
2 years ago
North Marion High baseball celebrates state championship with ring ceremony, looks forward to upcoming season | VIDEO

The NMHS baseball team is the first to win not just a state baseball title, but the first to win a state championship in any sport for the school.

Video
2 years ago
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Humble hero says it was ‘instinctive’ to jump into action, ending man’s alleged crime spree in Starbucks drive-thru

“I just knew he was up to no good,” said 37-year-old Shane Spicer about seeing a man running toward the Starbucks drive-thru. Moments later Spicer stopped the man from carjacking the driver in front of him. Turns out, the stranger he helped was six months pregnant.

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
Citrus County Sheriff’s Office says man set house on fire, shot at first responders. They responded with deadly force

CCSO says 57-year-old Paul Vincent Noeller poured gasoline around the home and yard, lit it on fire and shot at first responders as they tried to put the fire out.

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
Gainesville police arrest man suspected in shooting another man at Windsor Terrace Apartments

Officers say they developed 35-year-old William W. Murphy III as the person responsible for the shooting after talking to people in the area.

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
Ocala police investigate shooting at Burger King that left one person dead

One man died at an emergency room after the shooting.

Crime & Safety
2 years ago
Husband of Ocala businessman Tim Smith arrested, charged with Smith’s murder

MCSO booked 55-year-old Herbert Swilley into the jail on Friday, Nov. 3, at 8:45 a.m. and charged him with first-degree premeditated murder of his husband 59-year-old Tim Smith.

Education
2 years ago
UF president Ben Sasse’s inauguration speech stirs optimism among staff, students | VIDEO

“I think he’s really made me excited to be a part of something. He’s made it seem like this is much bigger than us,” said one UF staff member following Sasse’s inauguration speech on Thursday, Nov. 2.

Local
2 years ago
Fire shuts down Williston’s landmark restaurant ‘The Ivy House’ for now. Owners vow to carry-on matriarch’s legacy of Southern hospitality

The Ivy House restaurant was started by Marjorie ‘Mimi’ Hale thirty years ago. The menu includes fried green tomatoes made from a 50-year-old family recipe.

Community
2 years ago
New numbers reveal Marion County broke tourism records last year

Marion County officials say they reached a ‘record revenue of $5.3 million’ paid by tourists in taxes.