Marion County News

MARION COUNTY, Fla. -- Sheriff's deputies in Marion County have arrested a Belleview man for solicitation of a minor.

The Marion County Sheriff's Office has started four inmate labor farms across the Ocala area, MyFoxOrlando.com reports.

Bond $1,000. * Timothy Delaney , 53, of North Shorewood Drive, Hernando, at 4:43 p.m. Wednesday on an Iberia County, La., warrant for stolen property.

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.

A Marion County brother and sister have been charged with burglary and grand theft after deputies say they found the couple's van packed with Frito-Lay chips stolen from the Frito-Lay factory during a traffic stop.

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

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.

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Volunteer Sharon Whiddon once helped Hillsborough Correctional Institution inmates like Vivia Palmer make aprons.

A man has been sentenced to life in prison plus another 30 years for a fatal home invasion in north Florida.

Florida authorities have arrested one man and believe another might be connected in a shooting at an annual "crab festival" in Williston, Fla., a city just southwest of Gainesville, that left five people shot, one of which was killed.

WILLISTON, Fla.AP-A 19-year-old man is accused of shooting five people during the annual Crab Festival in Williston.

Authorities arrested Devonte Ocasio on Monday during a traffic stop in nearby Marion County.

A Marion County jury found 26-year-old Jolgar Desir guilty Sunday of murder, attempted murder, home invasion robbery with a firearm and kidnapping with a firearm.

At 4:52 a.m., Marion County Fire Rescue responded to a 911 call reporting a fire at 7386 SE 135th St.

Fire rescue officials in Marion County say a man died in a mobile home fire. Marion County Fire Rescue responded to the fire just before 5 a.m. Monday.

To spank or not to spank, in schools? That's the question. Well, when I was in school is wasn't the question, but now more than ever it is.

No bond. * Russell Housman, 25, of Inverness, at 6:27 p.m. April 23 on a warrant for violation of probation on an original felony charge.

Want to know what riles parents? Ask them whether they think it is OK for a school to paddle their child.

The mystery of what became of a missing Lake County woman Lacey Buenfil got more complicated Wednesday when the last person known to have seen her alive died in a suspected meth -lab explosion, authorities said Thursday.