Leon County Health Department

A potentially deadly disease that can cause meningitis is now in Tallahassee after health officials warned of a statewide outbreak last month.

Leaders of Tallahassee’s branch of the NAACP are questioning the hiring of Leon County’s new public health director, a job that includes a position at…

Dr. Homer Rice, who worked for the Florida Department of Health for 36 years and spent the last eight as chief of the Leon County unit, was forced out of…