Marion County (Florida)

Election officials are looking for answers after some voters had to wait hours and hours to cast a ballot in Tuesday's election. Across the country, and here at home, long lines had voters waiting past the scheduled closing time, in Hamilton County and...

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Vilinda York lies in her Florida hospital bed, facing a dry-erase board that lists in green marker her name, her four doctors and a smiley face. Also on the board is this: "Anticipated date of discharge: NOT YET DETERMINED." The...

When a police sergeant pulled into the Ocala Police Department's district office he noticed a man, later identified as Keyobee J. Smith, walking around before entering an employee's minivan in the parking lot, reports the Ocala Star-Banner. When...

Randy Lee Williams , 54, and Robert Steven Markham, 59, were recently arrested after being accused of engaging in a sex act on a trail at an Ocala park — in January, reports the Ocala Star-Banner. So far this year over 12 men between the ages...

A patron at an Ocala, FL Internet cafe business thwarted a night stick-up and shot at one of two suspected robbers. The two attempted to rob the café and the 30 customers inside, said Judge Cochran, a Marion County Sheriff's Office spokesman.

The two wannabe robbers took a gamble when they tried to rob an Internet cafe in Ocala. One of the customers, Samuel Williams, 71, shot and injured the two masked men as they tried to rob the cafe, reports the Ocala Star-Banner. While one of the...

A Walmart loss prevention officer told Ocala cops that two women fled the store after being stopped for shoplifting. They allegedly put clothes in a baby's diaper bag, reports the Ocala Star-Banner. One of the women, 19-year-old mom Allison Nicole...

A woman, 38, called 911 after she was awakened by the noise of someone prying open her sliding glass door found her neighbor, James Christopher Myles, 42, standing in her Ocala apartment, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office, reports The...

DOUGLAS, Massachusetts -- The unsolved disappearance and murder of a teenage lifeguard in 2000 may be linked to a convicted killer in Florida. 16-year-old Molly Bish disappeared while working as a lifeguard at Comins Pond in the small community of Warren...

ames David Gray, 68, allegedly said he has "a bad drinking problem," reports The Gainesville Sun. On his way home from cutting grass, the Citra man bought an 18-pack of Natural Ice because he was hot and also depressed over his meager wages —...

A 69-year-old man told deputies that after he drove Rose Ann Gray to a home, she got out of the truck and tried to swipe a cooler with 18 cans of Busch beer inside, reports the Ocala Star-Banner. The senior citizen told cops that when he protested,...

A Walmart loss prevention officer told Ocala police that two women fled the store after being stopped for shoplifting. They allegedly put clothes in a baby's diaper bag, reports the Ocala Star-Banner. One of the women, 19-year-old mom Allison...