Former boarding home operator Daphne Jones said she considers taking care of the downtrodden a "ministry" and wants to clear her reputation. ...more

January 9, 2009

The former operator of boarding home who faced 18 felony counts of adult abuse will not go to jail. Daphne Jones, under a plea agreement with prosecutors, pleaded guilty this morning to one reduced count of culpable negligence, a second-degree misdemeanor. Prosecutors dropped the remaining 17 charges. ...more

January 8, 2009

A Sebring man was free Monday on $30,000 bail after he was arrested and accused of writing checks for more than $15,000 from his 94-year-old grandmother's checking account. ...more

October 21, 2008

The Children's Services Foundation is primed to recognize seven finalists from among 25 nominations, and choose a single winner of the 2008 Champion for Children's Award at its annual gala. ...more

August 1, 2008

The people who try to improve lives of older Floridians in long-term care launched a statewide series of town hall meetings Thursday on how to do that job better. ...more

November 9, 2007

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has revoked the license of a Hillsborough County adult family care home and fined its operator, Daphne Jones, $20,000 after an agency investigation of allegations that she moved residents from her sprawling riverfront home to a cramped boarding home in West Tampa. ...more

November 9, 2007

TAMPA - The Agency for Health Care Administration has revoked the license of a Hillsborough County adult family care home and fined its operator, Daphne Jones, $20,000 after an agency investigation of allegations that she moved residents from her sprawling riverfront home to a cramped boarding home in West Tampa. ...more

November 8, 2007

Disabled by strokes, mental illness or the frailties of old age, residents of the Daphne Jones Boarding Home arrived at their most vulnerable. ...more

November 2, 2007

William Naiden William Naiden, 52, suffers from schizoaffective disorder. He left New Hampshire two years ago in pursuit of warm weather. ...more

November 2, 2007

At 91, Olivia Pitts Jackson was the boarding home's oldest resident. She arrived Feb. 27. That day, the Tampa Housing Authority evicted her and her husband from public housing. John Jackson, 47 - "God told us to marry," she says - hadn't responded to the agency's annual review to see whether they still qualified for public housing. So they had to go. ...more

November 2, 2007