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A Silver Springs father’s lawsuit against the Marion County Sheriff’s Office continues toward trial, with a date currently set for December.

Carol Rogers of Leesburg has come to rely upon Angel Flight Southeast, a volunteer outreach that provides no-cost air transportation in privately owned planes for patients of all ages, to get to her appointments for treatments for mesothelioma at Florida Cancer Specialists in Sarasota.

Ocala got its first look at the proposed Magnolia Art Xchange art incubator at the historic Ocala Union Station on Tuesday.

Community and calendar briefs for March 30, 2016, in Marion County, Florida.

A man sentenced to 31.3 months on charges of resisting a law enforcement officer with violence, battery on a law enforcement officer and felony driving while license suspended was in court Tuesday hoping he soon would be a free man based on a case integrity review report by the State Attorney's Office.

Registration begins Monday for parents to enroll their children for voluntary pre-kindergarten over the summer and kindergarten for the 2016-17 school year.

More than six months after his conviction, an Ocala man continues to wait in custody for a judge to decide whether he deserves a new trial.

Hospital bed delays can be frustrating for everyone: emergency medical personnel, staff at hospitals and, of course, the patient and his or her family.

Mariam Katiba Cook, a respected Marion County educator and a champion of the area’s farmlands, died Thursday, March 24, after a long illness. She was 85.