Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The legacy of north Florida's infamous Dozier school continues even after its doors closed for the last time in 2011. Executed ...

TALLAHASSEE — Hundreds of men who were abused as children at two notorious state reform schools are in line to receive checks of more than $21,000 in the coming days, as part of a $20 million ...

STARKE, Fla. — A man set to be executed Tuesday is making a final plea to spare his life. Attorneys for convicted killer Victor Tony Jones asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the abuse he ...

An investigative report by the nonprofit, non-partisan journalist group The Marshall Project has found that at least 34 men who were sent to the Dozier School for Boys in Mariana later ended up on ...

Researchers at the University of South Florida are fighting with the state over access to the grounds of a now-closed reform school. For decades, the Dozier School for Boys was notorious for the harsh ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Top photo: The former Dozier School for Boys campus in Marianna, Fl., in 2024; Bottom photo: A view looking north over a section ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — More than a hundred graduates gathered on Thursday in Pinellas County to celebrate one shared achievement — a high school diploma. For one graduate, walking across a stage in a ...

Nearly eight years after shutting its doors following a bone-chilling 111-year legacy of abuse, Florida’s Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys is still unearthing dark secrets. Last week, Florida Gov. Ron ...

In the coming days, more than 900 senior men should be getting a check from the state of Florida—it’s compensation for the abuse they suffered as children, at the hands of state employees inside a ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Hundreds of men who were abused as children at two notorious state reform schools are in line to receive checks of more than $21,000 in the coming days, as part of a $20 million ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville man is set to be executed Tuesday, but his time at an infamous state-run reform school as a child has some calling for mercy. Michael Bell was convicted of the 1993 ...