SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Two California police officers escalated a routine encounter with a homeless man into a beating that left him lying unconscious in a pool of blood and caused his death days later, a prosecutor said on Monday. In opening statements at the officers’ trial, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas told […]
Each Saturday following Thanksgiving, Myra Hicks takes friends out to feed people who are homeless. She has men crawl under bridges and lead groups into the woods to find tent cities of people who are hungry. When they find children, they also hand out stuffed animals. This year, because of Hicks, homeless people in four […]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A homeless man has gone from the proverbial penthouse to the big house after he was found sleeping in the presidential suite at one of Pittsburgh’s swankiest hotels. Jeffrey Lennon Watson, 48, told police he was from Los Angeles and was passing through the city to return to California when he was […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Houston Rockets forward Terrence Jones has been arrested and accused of stomping on a homeless man’s leg, police say. Portland Police Bureau spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson says the incident happened early Wednesday outside a downtown nightclub. A sergeant saw the 6-foot-9 Jones walk by a doorway where two homeless men were […]
Jacque Reid goes “Inside Her Story” with Chelsea Fearce about overcoming the odds of homelessness to graduate high school with a 4.46 G.P.A. and entering college as a junior with a full scholarship! Just wow!
Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless (HFTH) has helped the hungry and homeless in Atlanta for more than 40 years, but this year, the nonprofit organization has uncovered a new phenomenon. “Many women are living in cars with their children,” said Elisabeth Omilami, chief executive officer at Hosea Feed the Hungry, a Christian international aid […]
Lights, ornaments and the most festive of trimmings overlay one of the world’s most bustling metropolises, testaments of a time of season when man’s humanity to man is thought to be as common as the air one naturally inhales. And yet all is not regal or cheerful in NYC, where the Coalition for the Homeless […]
