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A pair of colts sold for $435,000 each on Tuesday during day one of the Ocala Breeders' Sales March sale of 2-year-old thoroughbreds.

Family and friends of a Dunnellon woman who was struck and killed by a train in Ocala Saturday continue to worry about a second dog - Beethoven - which they believe was in the car with her at the time.

The top Florida thoroughbreds were revealed Monday night during the association's annual awards banquet in Ocala.

Today will start out cloudy but gradually become sunny with a high near 85, according to the National Weather Service forecast for Ocala.

On Monday, during a first look at the new international-level eventing course at the Ocala Jockey Club, the group behind the effort announced it would bid for a four-star competition for 2018.

Community and calendar briefs for March 15, 2016.

The story of the Flechas family of Ocala and Flechbilt, the company they created, roughly tracks the course of the American economy over the last 75 years.

Tuesday is Election Day. Here's what you need to know:

A 37-year-old Ocala woman faces two charges of child abuse without great bodily harm after she confessed to throwing a pot at a child.

The unemployment rate for Marion County was 6.1 percent in January, down a full percentage point from the same month in 2015.