Ocala News

I'm pretty sure I just made my first trip to Silver Springs, the old-school tourist attraction in Ocala.

After massive education cuts two years ago, Gov. Scott was able to get close to a billion dollars put back into education last year and a little more than a billion was added to the budget he signed yesterday.

Is a cigar sometimes just a cigar? That debate will remain unresolved, but The Daily Caller can say with confidence that a banana is definitely not always just a banana at North Marion High School near Ocala, Fla.

Central Florida residents have been transfixed by coverage of the monster tornado that ravaged Moore, Okla., but Becky Nolan can't watch the images of debris and tear-stricken faces.

OCALA, Fla. -- Ocala police said a man was killed when a tree fell on his car during a severe storm Monday afternoon.

WWE News: Rey Mysterio Health Update, Details on Lawler's In-Ring Return Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 05.19.2013 Lawler in a tag match... - Jerry Lawler's in-ring return next weekend will be an eight-person intergender tag team match for Dory Funk's !BANG!. Lawlerr will team with Dory Funk Jr., Johnny Magnum and Jessica Power-House against Cory ... (more)

Fuller sets up for the happy hour sing-off. Teams compete by receiving the same word and singing songs that contain the word until there's one team left standing.

Gov. Rick Scott must soon sign the new state budget, and he's getting intense feedback on all sides: from lawmakers protecting hometown projects, hospitals worried about losing money and a business-backed group criticizing pork-barrel spending.

Ocala, Florida, Tuesday May 14, 2013, ' united we stand ' the vision of a promised land upon the field of dreams, still known as the United States of America today.

In Ocala, May 10 2013, the Ocala City Hall was apparently surrounded by zombies.

A central Florida brother and sister have been arrested after a deputy found a van overflowing with bags of chips that were apparently taken from a Frito-Lay factory.

Dean Jeffries [r] stands with Ken Gross during a segment of the Great Customizers seminar at the 2009 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance, next to the hot rod designer's wild Mantaray.

Most adults get a one-hour lunch break at work, so why shouldn't students? At Ocala's West Port High School, that's exactly what students have been getting since 2009, according to Ocala.com. At 11 a.m. every morning, all 2,300 students are released for 60 minutes to do whatever they choose.

A 2-year-old colt by Ocala Stud stallion High Cotton, whose main purpose was to help further nutritional and physiological research at the University of Florida/IFAS Equine Sciences Center in Lowell, instead sold for $600,000 - one of the highest prices paid for a horse at the yearly sale.

In September 2012, Jerry "The King" Lawler, the long-time ring announcer for WWE, collapsed during a taping of Monday Night Raw.

According to authorities, a suspected speeding motorist twice eluded cops in Highland Beach, Fla., giving himself enough time to "disappear." When cops caught up to his car, which had stopped, it appeared to be empty.

Marion County deputies are searching for an $18,000 gas-powered golf cart that was stolen from a mobile home park in Ocala.

One of the new full-time sports radio networks, NBC Sports Radio , has announced the addition of several affiliates.

An 80-year-old Ocala woman lost more than $200,000 in a sweepstake scam. The Ocala Star-Banner reports the woman began receiving phone calls in 2012 telling her she had won thousands in a sweepstakes.

Gas prices fluctuated last week after the price of a barrel of oil inched above $90 and on word of a positive U.S. jobs report.