Ever since information about the disappearance of Jeremiah Oliver has come to light, a lot has been written about the effectiveness of the Department of Children and Families (DCF) in protecting ...

Six years ago, my wife and I became foster parents. We took in a 7-year-old African-American girl — one of eight children who were born to one woman and fathered by seven men. The girl arrived at our ...

This story has been updated. Lawmakers gathered on Wednesday to hear testimony from state auditors and representatives of the Department of Children and Families about a recent report which found that ...

TOPEKA, Kan. – The Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) has released the case summary of slain five-year-old Zoey Felix. Felix died Oct. 2 after Topeka police said she was raped. Mickel ...

TOPEKA, Kan. – The Kansas Department for Children and Families will begin accepting applications from low-income Kansans for funds to help pay their winter energy bills. DCF said in a news release the ...

The Department for Children and Families is helping more people pay their energy bills. The DCF announced Wednesday a second period for accepting applications to their Low-Income Energy Assistance ...

DCF wants to place more children in ‘kinship care’ — with a relative or other close family connection. But doing so has been ...

Francisco Ortiz is charged with murder in the death of his 4-year-old daughter, A'zella, in October 2024. The state's ...

FORT LAUDERDALE — For more than a year, top aides to Florida’s social services chief Jerry Regier intervened to help a company whose vice president is a former Regier associate win state business, ...

Charles Harvey began working at age 10, sweeping out the Westside garage and wrecker business of Tommy Moon, a Jacksonville auto racing hero who'd been left paralyzed by a 1954 crash at Jax Raceways.