Ocala News

Authorities arrested two men in connection with a robbery in Citrus Springs that landed a man in the hospital.

Published: Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 12:30 a.m. The good news about the fire earlier this week that wiped out a wastewater treatment plant in Silver Springs Shores is that no one was hurt and thousands of Marion County Utilities Department customers did not sustain an interruption in their ...

Published: Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 4:48 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 4:59 p.m. The city of Ocala will spend $33,000 as a match to federal stimulus money to hire about 43 people on a temporary basis.

Ocala's 84-year-old Ritz Historic Inn, a 32-suite, Spanish Mission architecture landmark on the National Registry of Places, is scheduled to be auctioned off at its site on East Silver Springs Boulevard at 11 a.m. Jan.

Published: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 12:51 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 12:57 p.m. W. Paul Young, author of the runaway Christian best-seller "The Shack," will appear at First Presbyterian Church of Ocala Jan.

Published: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 9:47 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 1:04 p.m. Kurt Kelly today will announce his bid to run for Congress against controversial Orlando Democrat Alan Grayson, Kelly said late last night.

A 55-year-old Ocala man accused of inappropriately touching a 13-year-old girl was arrested early Tuesday, according to officials.

Published: Monday, January 4, 2010 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 11:26 p.m. On Tuesday, local governments will consider offering a Pittsburgh-area company roughly $300,000 to expand its operations to Ocala.

Published: Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 3:24 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 3:32 p.m. Physical fitness trainer Michael Roth ran on a treadmill early Sunday morning at about 9 mph for about 30 minutes.

Published: Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 2:27 a.m. Throughout the past 40 years, doughnut lovers have found paradise on East Silver Springs Boulevard.

State wildlife officials and volunteers spent part of their New Year's Eve rescuing a manatee from a spring in the Ocala National Forest.

Published: Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 3:56 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 3:59 p.m. During the past two weeks the Ocala Star-Banner has counted down the top news stories affecting Marion County in 2009.

Several weapons and a big screen television were taken from a Northwest residence Monday, according to officials.

Published: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 5:55 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 5:56 p.m. Sometimes change is slow, but efforts are under way to find ways to improve the State Road 40 corridor on Ocala's west side, a largely African-American community that often is overlooked when development is discussed.

Ocala firefighters say a generator supplying electrical power to a mobile home was the cause of an early morning fire.

A woman was arrested Saturday after police say she left a 2-year-old child alone in a car for nearly two hours.

Published: Monday, December 21, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, December 21, 2009 at 8:44 a.m. On the Saturday before Thanksgiving a fire tore through a Fellowship mobile home, killing a mother and her four small children.

Published: Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 10:21 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 10:23 p.m. Mark Damohn was channel surfing Saturday evening when the news ticker at the bottom of the screen announced the unbelievable: Urban Meyer is resigning.

Published: Friday, December 25, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 8:34 p.m. Chris Perera, the former director of the troubled Kids Zone USA day care center, was arrested again Wednesday, this time for possessing a crack pipe, Ocala police reports state.

Published: Friday, December 18, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, December 18, 2009 at 12:25 a.m. Despite her pleas for probation to treat her mental illness, the Georgia woman who admitted to enlisting a handyman to burn down her Ocala rental home for insurance money was ordered Thursday to spend two years in a federal prison.