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Bond was set at $30,000 for the Silver Springs Shores woman suspected in the hit-and-run death of a teenage boy early Wednesday morning.

Twenty-three local athletes will participate in the Special Olympics Florida State Summer Games Friday and Saturday at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando.

“I just wanted help,” Michael Lozier said. “I did it to get caught so I could get help. It's the only way to clean up."

Two skimming devices were recovered from a gas station in Ocala on Thursday.

Alex Niederer first discovered moto-trials through childhood friends in Austria. As they would navigate their lightweight motorcycles up and over rocky terrain, aiming to demonstrate skill rather than speed, he would follow and watch — and, later, beg his parents to let him try, too.

The Marion County School Board agreed Thursday to suspend collection of school impact fees - money from new residential construction to pay for school growth - for the sixth straight year.

A 39-year-old Dunnellon man was seriously injured Wednesday afternoon when a tire blew on a box truck and it rolled over on State Road 121 in Levy County.

Marion County Public Schools stands to lose $53 million in federal funding if the School Board continues to block transgender students from using bathrooms of their gender identity.

A grand jury in Putnam County has indicted a 44-year-old man for the first-degree murder in the death of an Ocala man whose body was found in the Ocala National Forest back in March.

Community and calendar briefs for May 19, 2016, in Marion County, Florida.