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Johnnie Robert Dyous, who lives in Fruitland Park, was arrested Saturday by the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office on a felony charge relating to theft of state funds.

The U.S. Forest Service is conducting two prescribed burns in the Ocala National Forest today.

Community and calendar briefs for June 8, 2016, in Marion County, Florida.

An Ocala man has filed a lawsuit against the Marion County Sheriff’s Office alleging a deputy’s police dog assaulted him for no reason.

The red, white and blue flowers placed on the gravestone of Ocala native and U.S. Army veteran Samuel Theodore Scriven in Faith Memorial Gardens cemetery on Memorial Day still looked fresh days after local memorial programs ended.

The Ocala City Council took the first tentative steps toward its 2016-17 budget at a Tuesday workshop, and the city budget director already is warning of a $3.86 million budget deficit.

A local accounting firm will soon move into its newly purchased downtown Ocala office building. Meantime, mega law firm Morgan & Morgan has bought a building on Silver Springs Boulevard that will be home to a satellite office scheduled to open this fall.

An Ocala teen will serve 15 years in prison for shooting his neighbor earlier this year.

Driving west along State Road 200 in southwest Marion County has always been a challenge, especially at the Southwest 60th Avenue intersection.

Interested commuters and drivers can weigh in at open house meetings tonight, Wednesday and Thursday evening.