One cannot read about what happened to a boy dubbed "Jacob Peters" in the newest lawsuit against the state's social services system and not be angered at the raw deal this child has been handed - both by his biological parents and the Department of Children and Families. ...more

February 2, 2008

CLEARWATER - Florida's new discount drug card should lessen the cost of prescription drugs for up to 3.8 million uninsured Floridians and fill in gaps for those covered by Medicare, Gov. Charlie Crist said Thursday during a trip to Clearwater. ...more

December 20, 2007

Two people claiming to be an 88-year-old woman's caregivers are accused of cheating their charge out of $24,000 over the course of three months. ...more

December 18, 2007

Officials are attributing an 80 percent increase in deaths from child abuse and neglect in Florida last year mainly to changes in reporting criteria including the addition of drowning victims. ...more

December 16, 2007

SARASOTA - The Sarasota Family YMCA's top foster care administrator officially resigned from the agency today. ...more

December 10, 2007

Imagine you are a teenage foster child who has been in the system so long you have little or no memory of your biological parents. ...more

December 4, 2007

SEBRING - Sheriff Susan Benton confirmed today that the Highlands County Sheriff's Office was searching the county landfill for a fetus or full-term baby that might have been put there by a Lake Placid woman. ...more

November 28, 2007

Something odd happened when Bob Butterworth called a "press availability" in the Capitol rotunda last spring to announce excessive force might have been used at a Panhandle juvenile detention facility. ...more

November 25, 2007

Excerpts from the commission's first public hearing: ...more

November 24, 2007

For years, many mentally ill Floridians without the means to obtain proper treatment have gotten into trouble and ended up in our county jails or state prisons. Until recently, lawmakers have looked the other way. ...more

November 20, 2007