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Four year-old Kaleb Evans, born with only the right side of his heart developed, loves baseball and can’t wait to swing for the fences with the Oriels T-Ball team at the recently reopened Fort McCoy/Rite Way Little League Ball Park.

An estimated 10,000 people are expected to visit Ichetucknee Springs State Park this holiday weekend, and many will find a few changes if they haven't been to the popular swimming hole since last year.

Ocala police charged a 31-year-old woman with two counts of child neglect on Thursday for leaving her two young children in a locked vehicle, which was left running in a grocery store parking lot for an hour and a half while she shopped.

For more than four decades, Wayne Williams has been teaching children in Marion County in physical education and Exceptional Student Education classes.

Community and calendar briefs for May 27, 2016, in Marion County, Florida.

The Four Horsemen are no more, as the last rider has made his intention known: he's retiring.

WWII veteran and longtime newspaperman Harry Theriault, who celebrated his 100th birthday Thursday, has a prescription for long life. “A lot of fishing and a Bud Light every day,” he said with a laugh.

Five suggestions for weekend fun, including "Sister Act" and "A Tribute to Legends."

One by one, Marion Oaks Elementary School fifth-graders, all with big smiles, walked to the stage to be honored early Thursday.

Sgt. C.T. Welch, the acting State Road 200 district commander, has been promoted to lieutenant and is now the permanent district commander for the area.