child deaths

August is Child Safety Awareness Month, and Florida officials are reminding motorists to always buckle up their kids.

Paris Byrd, the St. Johns County girl who died Tuesday after collapsing during basketball tryouts at R.J. Murray Middle School had an enlarged heart,...

That's the encouraging news in a new report. But it also means more kids are living long enough to face a host of serious challenges to their physical and mental health.

Unsafe sleep is the number one cause of child deaths in Florida. That’s prompted an ongoing state campaign to prevent such deaths. And, one...

August is Child Safety Awareness Month, and the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles along with several other state agencies are...

Florida Department of Children and Families Secretary Mike Carroll told a Senate panel late last week that the state's child-protection system appears to…

The chief of the Florida Department of Children and Families told lawmakers Thursday his agency is making progress at carrying out reforms but still has a…

A couple of measures aimed at helping Florida’s most vulnerable are now heading to the Senate floor, after passing their last committee Monday.

Several recent, high-profile Florida murder cases have brought to light the need for increased mental health services.Jessica Lacy McCarty, 33, was…

Child welfare officials have previously investigated a man who killed his mother and 9-year-old niece.A SWAT team took 23-year-old Jason Rios into custody…