Leo Boatman had never heard of Hidden Pond as he walked to the Greyhound station in Clearwater on the afternoon of Jan. 2, 2006. He did not know much about Ocala National Forest, or even about ...

Leo L. Boatman escaped the death penalty after pleading guilty to the 2006 murders of two Santa Fe College students who were camping at Hidden Pond in the Ocala National Forest. The visitor from ...

In the end, Leo Boatman could offer no reason for killing two college students who crossed his path in Ocala National Forest ... a remote campground called Hidden Pond near Juniper Springs.

Yet between them the city of Ocala and Marion County provide ... the 430,000-plus acres in the Ocala National Forest. But where are Ocala's hidden gems, the parks with lower profiles?

A large alligator forced the closure of Juniper Springs waterway in Ocala weeks after a deadly attack elsewhere in Central ...