Tania Francois

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Tania Francois

South Florida woman without birth certificate struggles to get Real ID As Real ID enforcement takes effect, another South Florida woman said she is stuck in bureaucratic limbo, unable to obtain a valid state identification card because she was never issued a birth certificate.

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Tania Francois

A Miami-Dade woman said she's caught in limbo trying to get her REAL ID driver's license: She can't prove she was ever born. Segregation-era birth traps Miami woman in license dilemmaJanette Gantt Palmer was born at home, during segregation in Aiken County, South Carolina, back in February of 1949. It was still the Jim Crow era. A birth certificate was never issued, and without it, the Department of Motor Vehicles won't renew her license.

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Tania Francois

For John Mancuso, the panic and helplessness felt all too familiar. The Fort Lauderdale father waited once again for a call no parent wants to expect, confirmation that his son was safe after a school shooting. This time, it was on the campus of Florida State University, the first time was Parkland. A painful pattern, sixth grade to freshman yearJohn's son, Domenic Mancuso, now 18, was sheltering in a campus gym when the shooting unfolded at FSU. His first instinct was to call home.

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Tania Francois

Two days after Haiti’s transitional government approved a “war budget” to be partly funded with tax revenues to help fight gangs, the country’s treasury was hit with another blow. Miami-based Royal Caribbean suspended operations to Labadee, its private destination off the coast of northern Haiti. Royal Caribbean’s sister line, Celebrity Cruises, had already removed Labadee from its itinerary weeks ago.

Feb 25, 2025 | cbsnews.com | Tania Francois

Before she was a Florida state senator, before she served on the Broward County School Board, Dr. Rosalind Osgood was living on the streets, battling addiction and struggling to survive. Today, she represents District 32 in the Florida Senate, but her path to public service was anything but conventional. "It's important for me to say that I'm a person in recovery, for 35 years," Osgood said. Her drug of choice varied over time. "I used marijuana, I used cocaine and I used crack," she said.