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 ...

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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 ...

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.