PALM BEACH POST: State officials agree to test soil, water at homes of Acreage kids with cancer

By MITRA MALEK, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

State officials will test the water and soil at brain-cancer-stricken children's homes in The Acreage, Florida Department of Health's chief of staff said Friday — an appeal those children's families have been making for months. The decision comes a day after Gov. Charlie Crist pledged to seek federal help to investigate whether something in particular has caused higher-than-normal rates of pediatric brain tumors and cancer, particularly for girls, in The Acreage. It...