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The Ledger reviewed hundreds of pages of documents to uncover how the worlds of a woman with mental illness and a decorated deputy collided.

"Every system that should have been there to protect this outcome failed."

The School Board will debate whether to require masks like some other districts, in defiance of Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Justin M. Wallace, a 21-year-old new Flagler resident, from Massachusetts, faces three second-degree felony counts.

Polk County Schools struggling to fill 162 teaching positions before school starts Several teachers in Polk County rethink their work and last updated 2021-08-02 17:43:11-04 POLK COUNTY, Fla. — One of Florida’s largest school districts is struggling to fill teaching positions as students head back to school next week. “It’s very concerning the number of teachers that are quitting, the number of teachers looking for other jobs,” said Octavio Hernandez. Octavio Hernandez ...

Q&A: Erica Floyd-Thomas on suicide prevention and behavioral health in Florida Share this: Erica Floyd-Thomas is the assistant secretary for substance abuse and mental health at the Florida Department of Children and Families. Thomas’ work encompasses everything from supporting community-based behavioral health services, to operating state mental hospitals, to overseeing mobile response teams for crisis stabilization. In Thomas’ words:  “If you can think about it in the behavioral health...

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said the deputies rendered aid to the man who could have killed them.

The girl had been subjected to the Baker Act, which allows detainment for psychological reasons, numerous times and had threatened to kill herself.

Questions abound about the Palm Beach County School District officials’ troubling use of the Baker Act to handle unruly children — so flagrantly misusing the statute that in a recent

Polk County Sheriffs investigators say John Smith murdered Shaun Seaman on May 13 as the men shared a cell in the medical unit on suicide watch.