Exposure to neurotoxins present in anabaena cyanobacteria (a strain of blue-green algae) include stumbling or falling, foaming at the mouth, tremors and seizures, convulsions, loss of appetite, ...

A stray cat suspected of having rabies was seen this week near Marion County Park and Lake, but county health officials are tight-lipped about the situation and declined to speak Friday with the ...

The county health department posted on social media that a feral cat near the county lake was suspected to have rabies and gave tips for what to do if an animal showed signs of rabies. When a reporter ...

Services for Bettie Batt, 98, Marion, who died Monday, will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Eastmoor United Methodist Church, Marion. Visitation with her family will be 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at Yazel-Megli Funeral ...

For Bill and Essie’s BBQ in Marion, building a customer base has taken time and effort. But it also requires a strong dash of creativity, Megan Jones said. Daryl, Megan’s husband and the restaurant’s ...

A sentence of 247 months would be 20 years and 6 months.

Waddell was sitting in a swivel chair in an announcer’s booth above Peabody’s baseball field. His voice traveled through loudspeakers and washed over the city park. A car in the parking lot honked ...

Low-interest federal disaster loans are available to Marion County businesses, nonprofits, and residents with losses from storms and flooding June 3 to 7. Businesses and nonprofits may borrow up to $2 ...

Tampa State Bank, with offices in Tampa and Marion, is expected to become a branch of SJN Bank, headquartered in St. John, by the end of this year. Tampa bank has a long history in Marion County. The ...

Ramona and Tampa are farther away from the well field than Lehigh and Durham; their main stretches 12 miles from pumps to tower. Hundreds of miles of pipe branch off to each residence. “It’s at least ...

Becker was incorrect. Ronnebaum said rural water districts were quasi-municipal corporations. “They are a public agency,” he said. Ronnebaum said the association suggested that the district hire a ...