A Lakeland, Florida, woman facing multiple felony charges after reportedly causing a hit-and-run crash Saturday on Interstate 175 and violently resisting officers was taken to a local hospital under a ...

Florida had 5,077 incidents of students being involuntarily committed under a mental-health law known as the Baker Act during the past school year, data presented Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, to the ...

Florida's Baker Act was used for influencer Perez Hilton after it was reported he livestreamed himself self-harming. But what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minutes after a pickup truck smashed into a beach ramp tollbooth June 1 in Daytona Beach Shores, killing the attendant, the driver ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) - It is now easier to see what mental health resources are needed across Florida. The Florida Department of Children and Families launched a ...

The images of a police officer in Miami-Dade County taking a 7-year-old boy — in handcuffs — for a psychiatric exam after he hit a teacher sparked outrage in 2018. That’s not what the Florida Mental ...