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On Tuesday, Maj. Dennis Yonce left his OPD desk for the last time and on July 5 will begin a new job as a social services liaison for the city of Ocala.

As locals have been waitinga Popeye’s to open on U.S. 441, several restaurants have opened in recent months to offer diners tastes ranging from familiar to foreign.

Families often request that donations to remember a lost loved one be made to a charity in lieu of flowers.

At 8:12 a.m. on May 12, June Jackson sent a text message to Clifton Erhardt, her on-again, off-again boyfriend, whom she had found sleeping on her back porch in On Top of the World.

Chaplain Elden Luffman, a retired U.S. Navy commander, died at home on Monday. He was 90 and suffered heart failure.

Deliverance Outreach Ministries began with a vision of how better to serve the homeless. In a year, it has expanded to an outreach center with medical and dental clinics, and a clothes closet to outfit people for job interviews.

The southbound rest area on Interstate 75 at Paynes Prairie in Alachua County is now closed for at least 10 days so crews can resurface the parking areas and entrance and exit ramps.

A red-shouldered hawk injured on May 14 when one of its wings was shot and broken is expected to make a full recovery.

Gas prices rose over the Memorial Day holiday weekend for the millions of Americans who hit the road anyway.

Shari Hall, one of two finalists whom the County Commission considered last year to be chief of Marion County Fire Rescue, is suing the county and alleging that it engaged in gender discrimination by choosing the male finalist, Paul Nevels.