Children

The Duval County 2013 Food Summit has an ambitious goal this year; change the way children eat.The summit will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on…

TALLAHASSEE (The News Service of Florida) — After a wave of child deaths since the end of the spring legislative session, Florida lawmakers this week…

Pregnant women are told not to drink, smoke or stress out. But it hasn't been clear how those choices may affect a fetus. By studying how genes are turned on and off, scientists say they are getting closer to understanding what experiences in the womb really affect a child's health.

Monday marked the 15th year the state of Florida has memorialized kids who went missing in the Sunshine State. Officials say the number of missing

Slides, seesaws, and water sprayers were all on the agenda at a meeting Tuesday afternoon of city "play experts" at the Lenox Court housing complex.Those…

ORLANDO (The News Service of Florida) — After a series of highly-publicized child deaths this summer, the new leader of the Florida Department of Children…

Twenty children who had come into contact with the Department of Children and Families have died since April 11 -- four times as many as had previously

On Tuesday, Florida's Cabinet decided it will allow researchers to begin exhuming unmarked graves at the Dozier School for Boys, a now-closed notorious reform school. Former residents say boys were routinely beaten and subjected to other harsh treatment and that some died as a result. Now, families of boys who died there want answers.

The U.S. Justice Department is suing the state of Florida over hundreds of medically fragile children living in nursing homes. In the suit filed on Monday,