White House Boys

Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam is asking the head of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to evaluate new findings in the history of students…

In 1934, 13-year-old Thomas Varnadoe and his brother, Hubert, were sent to the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys for allegedly stealing a typewriter. In...

Ovell Krell was only 12 years old when her brother died -- but what she remembers most about him was his musical ability."He could walk into a music store…

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, is asking the governor of Pennsylvania to have state police there work with a team of Florida researchers investigating…

A shirt button, a plaque saying “at rest” and a stone marble found in what’s believed to have been the coffin of a 6-year-old boy are just some of the…

University of South Florida researchers unearthed the remains of two children buried at a former Panhandle reform school that had a history of extreme…

Researchers have begun exhuming remains from unmarked graves at a now-closed Florida reform school. Former residents of the school say brutal beatings…

USF anthropology assistant professor Erin Kimmerle talked to reporters as exhumations began at the Boot Hill cemetery at the Dozier School for Boys in…

On the second day of an excavation project, University of South Florida researchers worked Sunday on two graves at a former reform school in the Florida…

University of South Florida researchers began work to exhume dozens of graves Saturday at a former Panhandle reform school in hopes of identifying the…

University of South Florida researchers are expected to start digging for human remains buried on the grounds of the Dozier School for Boys at the end of…

Several more men are telling stories of abuse they say they suffered at the infamous state-run Dozier Reform School in the Panhandle town of Marianna. A…