Department of Children and Families

A Florida woman is facing child abuse charges after she allegedly publicly shamed her daughter and beat her, according to deputies.

Authorities in Florida say a man killed his wife and her boyfriend before fatally shooting himself.

More than half of the U.S. population — 187 million Americans — grappled Tuesday with extreme cold as a result of an Arctic weather system known as a “polar vortex” that has caused “temperatures that we haven’t seen in decades,” according to one Weather Channel forecaster. Read More

The number of tuberculosis cases has fallen by 18 percent since 2000, but the completely curable infection now kills as least as many every year as the AIDS virus, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, NBC News reported. TB killed 1.5 million people in 2014, WHO said — about the same as in 2013. The total HIV death toll in...

A railroad engineer was in the middle of his overnight shift when he spotted twin 9-month-old babies alone near the tracks in Worcester, Massachusetts. Police responded around 12:15 a.m. Wednesday after the baby boys were found in the area of the railroad tracks near Cambridge Street and Kansas Street.

34-year-old Carlos Jimenez Martins will name the little girl Sarah Jimenez Carvalho while her 34-year-old mother Rafaelle Alessandra Carvalho Sousa remains in jail, charged with child abuse and attempted murder.

A jury on Friday recommended life in prison for a man convicted of murdering a jogger in Coral Gables eight years ago.

Parents met with Broward school officials after they pulled their kids from a Pembroke Pines classroom amid accusations that teachers verbally and physically abused their children with special needs.

Parents pulled their children from a Pembroke Pines elementary school classroom after hearing what they say were teachers verbally and physically abusing their kids.

Panama City police tell news outlets that the employees were unable to wake 24-year-old Jordyn Freeman and 27-year-old Randy McMillin, both of whom were under the influence of drugs.

Bugs may be the newest unwanted group at this year’s Burning Man.

64-year-old Soebhagwatie Changoer was arrested last week after the woman’s son placed a camera inside her room at the facility in Clermont.

A Hamden Public Schools employee has resigned after she allegedly was caught on camera using racial slurs at a supermarket in East Haven on Friday.

Footage shows towering flames in San Francisco as crews battle a fire caused by a gas explosion.

A woman is dead and two men were hospitalized following a stabbing at a home in Northwest Miami-Dade, police said Saturday morning.

Investigators in central Florida have arrested 103 people on prostitution and human trafficking charges during a week-long sting.