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Over the next 30 years, the city of Ocala intends to pump more than $60 million into improvements to address blight through the West Ocala Community Redevelopment Area.

Summer is approaching, which means more free time for kids to explore parks, trails and woods. It also means greater odds of coming face-to-face with a snake.

Judy Mills, a Ward-Highlands Elementary School volunteer, is known for leading the school’s annual “Cookies & Cocoa with Santa” event each December.

A man and woman who were injured in a robbery Monday were released from the hospital and are expected to recover.

A 27-year-old Summerfield man was burned when a generator exploded early Tuesday morning.

Kelvin Lee Coleman's lawyers are not trying to make light of the fact that two people, Lester Carter and Glendora Johnson, died in a 2013 shooting at the Ocala motel where they lived and worked. But they are asking the jury to think critically about the quick conclusions that witnesses and law enforcement officers made in the aftermath.

Brittney Hunter would watch the red-shouldered hawk fly back and forth to its nest high in a tree at Lillian Bryant Park.

Community and calendar briefs for May 17, 2016, in Marion County, Florida.

Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Carlos Beruff on Monday declined to back off a recent statement in which he called President Barack Obama an “animal” who has “destroyed the country.”

A jury is set to hear opening statements Tuesday morning in the first-degree murder trial of Kelvin Lee Coleman. If convicted at the culmination of the trial, Coleman could face the death penalty.