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Candidates for public office in Belleview are now required to file financial information electronically through the Marion County Supervisor of Elections.

Four former Marion County sheriff's deputies received prison sentences Wednesday afternoon in connection with the use of excessive force.

The U.S. Forest Service is prescribed burning in the Ocala National Forest today.

David Walker of Ocala was named Angel Flight Southeast 2015 Pilot of the Year for the organization's Central Florida East region, which includes Marion County.

Marion County’s single-family housing market showed a modest rebound in March with the highest number of sales of existing homes in the past six months.

The painting “Furry Friends, Why Not” features an English bulldog surrounded by three kittens. The fetching work by renowned artist Robert Stebleton adorns the brochure for Friends of Furry Faces, the animal art and wine auction, and gourmet dinner, that will benefit the Humane Society of Marion County.

It was a good first day at the Ocala Breeders' Sales spring sale of 2-year-old thoroughbreds on Tuesday as more than $11 million worth of horses sold.

Nearly four years after an Orlando maintenance crew discovered the body of Jeffrey Todd Aaron off the side of a road, the 41-year-old Ocala man’s family has some resolution in the case.

Carter Joseph “Peanut” Gonzalez, barely 6 months old, may soon receive a life-giving liver. Although he might once have received the needed new liver in Gainesville, a change in policy at the UF Health Shands Transplant Center meant that his family needed to seek help elsewhere.

The U.S. Forest Service is prescribed burning in the Ocala National Forest today. The 227-acre burn is in Lake County just west of State Road 19, and south of State Road 40, near the Marion County line. The burn will improve wildlife habitat, eliminate vegetation build up and reduce the threat of wildfires.