Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ocala Star-Banner first published in 1943, when John H. Perry Sr. brought together the Ocala Morning Banner and the Ocala ...

A longtime Ocala Star-Banner and USA TODAY Co. employee, friend and community leader has died. Known as a problem solver and fixer, Perry Russell Jacobs, called Rusty by colleagues and friends, died ...

The 2025 girls golf season changed the tides of the sport, unless you were a Forest Wildcat. For more than 10 years they’ve dominated the Marion Athletic Conference tournament leaderboards. A few of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rusty Jacobs in the press room. A longtime Ocala Star-Banner and USA TODAY Co. employee, friend and community leader has died.

Perry "Rusty" Jacobs, a longtime Star-Banner employee, has died at the age of 60. Jacobs began his career as a pressman in 1985 and rose through the ranks to become a VP of regional manufacturing.