How Pinellas County School District leaders turned five once-average schools into failure factories.

Florida cut $100 million from its mental hospitals. Chaos quickly followed.

Investigation of squalid conditions that marked housing for Hillsborough County's substantial homeless population, which lead to swift reforms.

A diligent campaign that helped reverse a decision to end fluoridation of the water supply for the 700,000 residents of the newspaper's home county

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She was found curled up in a filthy room, unable to speak or make eye contact. They called her a feral child. Could nurturing make up for a lifetime of neglect?

On June 4, 1989, three bodies were found floating in Tampa Bay. This is the story of the murders, their aftermath and the handful of people who kept faith amid the unthinkable.

An editorial campaign urging reform of Florida's probate system for settling estates.