Hiring managers and recruiters across South Florida are looking to fill thousands of open positions during a job fair in Sunrise.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis held a news conference at the Tampa History Center on Monday morning where they awarded several churches through the Hope Florida Initiative.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a news conference Thursday morning with Florida Department of Children and Families Secretary Shevaun Harris.

The Florida Department of Children and Families intervened after police officers found a Slovakian girl alone in South Beach and arrested her mother, who was allegedly on vacation with a boyfriend, records show.

A Volusia County jury awarded a girl a $15 million verdict after a civil lawsuit accused the Florida Department of Children and Families of failing to protect her from abuse that resulted in permanent brain damage.

A couple employed by the University of Florida in Gainesville were arrested on accusations that they were keeping their two children, ages 6 and 2, in makeshift cages, ABC affiliate WCJB reported this week.

Miami police have confirmed that a missing 8-month-old boy who was believed to have been taken by his parents more than a month ago has been found safe and is now in the custody of the Florida Department of Children and Families.

The City of Miami Police Department released a missing person’s flyer Friday for an 8-month-old boy who the Florida Department of Children and Families is trying to locate.

A Broward County Public Schools first-grade teacher’s classroom punishments for one of her students constituted criminal child neglect, according to police, leading to her arrest Tuesday.

The Florida Department of Children and Families confirmed Friday that it is working with the Broward Sheriff’s Office in a neglect investigation launched after 11 children were taken to area hospitals Thursday.

A Key Largo woman witnessed her then-husband raping a girl and did nothing about it, according to a Monroe County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.

A former state child welfare worker and a substance abuse consultant have pleaded guilty to participating in a bribery scheme in South Florida.

Some Florida families are getting checks in the mail from Gov. Ron DeSantis.

A 15-year-old posted threats on social media and also told the Monroe County Sheriff he wanted to purchase a real handgun online.

Rashid Bryant was in foster care until the Florida Department of Children and Families reunited him with his mother, Jabora Deris, in February 2020. He was just over a year old. By November 2020, Rashid was dead.

North Miami Beach police confirmed Wednesday that a young girl who was found alone in the lobby of an apartment building has been reunited with her mother.

Lewis is facing charges of second-degree murder and armed robbery in the adult system. He has been so troubled that he was first charged with an armed robbery when he was 12 years old. The maximum term of residential treatment available in the juvenile justice system is 36 months prior to release. Barbosa didn’t fight back when Lewis ordered him to get back in his BMW, police said. Lewis ordered him to make two $500 withdrawals about 4:40 p.m. from a Bank of America ATM on Sistrunk Boulevard and Northwest Sixth Avenue, records show.

BISCAYNE PARK, Fla. Officers found a lost girl in Miami-Dade County more than 1,000 miles away from the foster home she had vanished from late last year in Tennessee. The 13-year-old girl, who was 12 years old when she vanished, told them she had hurt her foot while running away. Sandra Bates was barefoot when the officers found her on Tuesday walking in the street, Commander Nick Wollschlager, a spokesman for the Biscayne Park Police Department, said on Thursday night. Wollschlager said the girl told the officers that she was worried about her little sister, Sara Jones, who she had left behind. Detectives found the house at 1312 NE 150 St. Officers with Miami-Dade and Biscayne Park police departments showed up about 12:20 p.m., on Wednesday.

MIAMI – The Florida Department of Children and Families announced Tuesday food stamp recipients will be able to buy groceries online from Walmart or Amazon. U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients will be able to use their Electronic Benefits Transfer card to pay for groceries online starting April 21st. DCF is working with the USDA and the Florida Retail Federation to expand the network. Lorena Holley, the Florida Retail Federation vice president and general counsel, said retailers were grateful DCF was removing bureaucracy. Beverly Cole, Walmart’s senior director of payment acceptance, said more than 250 stores in Florida have curbside pick-up options.

MARATHON, Fla. - A Florida Keys was arrested after he allegedly threatened to cut out the tongue of a teenage girl. Antonio Solis, 47, was charged with aggravated assault and battery after he was interviewed Monday by Monroe County Sheriff's Office deputies. Officials say Solis was not happy with the 16-year-old girl's dating choices. Solis grabbed the girl's hair Saturday and threatened to cut her tongue with a steak knife if she refused to say whom she was dating. The Florida Department of Children and Families was notified of the incident.