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As Florida child-welfare administrators study failures in the foster-care system believed to have led a 7-year-old boy to kill himself in April, they turned Thursday to experts they don't often consult: young adults who came of age in state care.

Contractors are set to begin milling and resurfacing portions of Sample Road starting June 17.

Our guest speakers will be: Marco Rubio, Candidate for the US Senate. Former Speaker of the FL House of Representatives.

Florida child-welfare administrators are largely ignoring a host of rules put in place to protect children from potentially dangerous -- and sometimes unnecessary -- drugs, according to a detailed state review of the records for more than 100 young foster children who are being given powerful psychiatric medications.

Jun 7, 2009 10:53 am US/Eastern TAMPA An investigative panel formed by Department of Children and Families Secretary George Sheldon to look into what led up to the death of a Margate boy living in foster home will convene Monday in Tampa.

Coral Springs City Commissioners recently decided to ease signage codes to help struggling businesses- at least a little bit.

Long before President Barack Obama pointed out Sonia Sotomayor's mother to the world, the small, white-haired woman whose daughter is the president's pick for the Supreme Court was a revered figure on a much different stage.Celina Sotomayor was the unofficial resident nurse in the family's Bronx apartment building, always at the ready with her ...

La Bamba is the kind of place where you can kick back with a few Coronas and enjoy chips and salsa, or stuff yourself with hearty fajitas or a Tijuana steak.

Celina Sotomayor stood in the parking lot of her Margate condominium complex Wednesday, still wowed by her last-minute, whirlwind trip to Washington and the possibility of her only daughter's becoming the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.

May 26, 2009 6:05 pm US/Eastern Sotomayor's mother lives in Margate WASHINGTON President Barack Obama announces United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor of New York as his Supreme Court nominee as Vice President Joe Biden watches at the White House May 26, 2009 in Washington, DC.

A picture is worth a thousand words, and sometimes, a $125 fine. Pembroke Pines two months ago became the first city in Broward County to use traffic cameras to fine drivers who run red lights.

At age 7, Gabriel Myers had a psychiatrist to adjust his mental-health drugs, a therapist to help him cope with having been sexually abused, a caseworker who visited him once a month and a foster father who was becoming increasingly punitive.

The head of the Florida Department of Children and Families was in Fort Lauderdale Thursday, talking about what could have been done to prevent a 7-year-old in foster care from committing suicide.

Chantel Sawisch and Ronald Capobianco Jr., both of Pompano Beach, Fla., announce their engagement.

A powerful Florida lawmaker has asked two state agencies to investigate a Broward County psychiatrist who had been treating Gabriel Myers, a 7-year-old who hanged himself last month in the bathroom of his Margate foster home.

STATE AUTHORITIES HAVE TAKEN A 6-WEEK-OLD BOY FROM HIS PARENTS' HOME AFTER HIS FATHER WAS CHARGED WITH ABUSING HIS TWIN BROTHER.

The former site of a mobile home park in Margate, Fla., may be transformed into a $30 million community for 646 luxury RVs, according to the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel . A group of 10 French-Canadian investors, calling themselves Aztec RV Resort Inc., hopes to buy the 106-acre plot south of Southgate Boulevard and east of State Road 7 for $15 ...

Two Margate teenagers were arrested today on charges of robbing two FAU students at knifepoint as they sat on the beach last week.