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Teacher pressure is never more heightened during each school year than in the spring, when the high-stakes testing season begins for students.

A state corrections officer who told a sheriff’s deputy that he had too much to drink was arrested early Saturday morning.

One man was killed and at least another person injured in a two-vehicle crash Saturday evening near Belleview on U.S. 441, Marion County emergency officials said.

Every Saturday morning, Carlos J. Rivera visits the Jiffy Food Store at 2425 NW Blitchton Road to buy cooked chicken, which he said "is the best cooked chicken in the area."

With four of five former Marion County Sheriff’s deputies sentenced to prison for their roles in the beating of an unarmed Marion Oaks suspect nearly two years ago, will the U.S. Department of Justice say its job is finished and move on? Or will it work behind the scenes and consider taking more action against the Sheriff's Office?

Forty-one-year old Darren Decker of Ocala — one of two people suspected in a string of daytime burglaries — claimed a role in last year's effort to keep a Confederate flag flying in front of the Marion County government offices.

Community and calendar briefs for April 23, 2-16, in Marion County, Florida.

The Ocala Breeders’ Sales April sale of 2-year-old thoroughbreds rallied to post positive numbers on Friday after two off days to close the four-day sale.

Two Ocala residents are suspected in a string of daytime burglaries over multiple counties and the murder of composer Don "Terry" Plumeri in his Dunnellon-area home, the Citrus County Sheriff's Office announced Friday.

OPD released video showing an armed robber in the Jiffy Food Store at 2425 NW Blitchton Road. Can you identify him?