New research chronicles the increase in the number of children taking prescription medication to treat common weight-related diseases. ...more

November 12, 2008

The Tri-County area of Polk, Highlands, and Hardee counties has the second highest rate of child abuse in Florida. Many of these children who are abused by their parents enter the foster care system. One such child is Jennifer, who came to Children's Home Society's Hansen House at 17 after being in 27 different placements. ...more

November 9, 2008

Rescuers pulled four children alive Saturday from the rubble of a three-story Haitian school that collapsed on classrooms filled with students and teachers, killing at least 84 people. ...more

November 9, 2008

MANATEE COUNTY – Authorities recently found two young girls in an apartment filled with drugs and loaded guns and two unconscious adults. ...more

November 6, 2008

A Largo man is accused of molesting two girls, ages 7 and 8, while babysitting them this year, Tampa police said. ...more

November 4, 2008

Manatee County authorities have found a mother and her two young girls they said may be the victims of child abuse. ...more

October 26, 2008

Nine siblings are among 11 children as old as 17 who were left at Omaha hospitals Wednesday under Nebraska's unique and new safe haven law, which allows caregivers to abandon babies and teenagers alike at hospitals without fear of prosecution. ...more

September 26, 2008

and that's a big "if" - the last time I sat down and watched MTV's Video Music Awards was the year Andrew "Dice" Clay recited one of his dirty nursery rhymes and got banned for life. ...more

September 12, 2008

Jumping quarter horses over fences can be intimidating to some people, but not for Alana Nielander. ...more

September 10, 2008

A 2-, 4- and 13-year-old killed in separate incidents. ...more

September 10, 2008