Four homeless men have been attacked in San Diego, leaving three of them dead and the culprit remaining unknown. One man who about to be charged was released upon discovery of new evidence.
Former NHL player Sean Avery has taken criticism for posting videos of himself harassing homeless people seemingly for fun. But as critics attacked him for the videos, Avery quibbled over the definition of the word “harassment.”
After years of wasting $7 billion trying to support homeless mentally ill on the streets, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on July 1 to use $2 billion of Prop 63 bond money to build 14,000 housing units for the population.
A group of kids in Wyandotte, Michigan, organized a car wash to help a man who is homeless and down on his luck.
The suspect charged with murdering five people Monday via arson was “in the United States illegally.”
Patrick Stewart is so vehemently opposed to a Donald Trump presidency that he’s apparently paying people not to vote for him.
Texas veterans made sure that a homeless veteran received the dignity of a proper funeral. The troubled veteran had died alone.
Cesia Abigail, a Minneapolis cafe owner, responded to a homeless man’s attempt to beg her patrons for money by offering him a temporary job.
A supervisor in the San Francisco just declared a “state of emergency” to demand the city and the state spend more money on the homeless.
A picture of a boy praying over a sleeping homeless man in Baltimore, Maryland, has gone viral on Facebook.
Early Sunday morning, a homeless woman in Victorville was arrested for attempting to steal a rather conspicuous object: a Burlington Northern and Santa Fe locomotive.
Two French nuns who have devoted their lives to helping the homeless and downtrodden are now in danger of facing the same fate, as they could soon be evicted from the kitchen and little room they rent in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District.
The Berlin Senate has announced an audacious, and some would say totally inappropriate plan to house 10,000 migrants in mid level to luxury hotels in the city with a total price tag of at least 600 million euros. The senate
San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener is facing the wrath of homeless advocates after suggesting last week that people living on the streets in tents should be moved into shelters.
A Tennessee man who stopped by a local Chick-fil-A witnessed a stirring sight as a homeless man entered the restaurant on Monday. Instead of being shooed out as a menace to the store’s customers, the manager took time to pray with the man, then offered him a free hot meal.
Rushing culvert waters swept a mom and her eight-year-old son through pipes before a homeless man and a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer plucked the two from danger.
Powerful rain storms brought on by El Niño battered California on Tuesday, causing headache-inducing road closures; mud and debris flows; flooding; and the opening of a half-dozen temporary shelters for the state’s homeless.
California senators have proposed a $2 billion legislative package aimed at providing the state’s homeless population with permanent housing.
On Sunday, a 55-year-old known homeless man was found shot dead near Heritage Park in Santa Ana.
An unidentified bike messenger is being lauded as a hero after he helped deliver a baby under a San Francisco bus shelter to a homeless woman who did not even know she was pregnant.
A homeless man living in an encampment in Los Angeles was found armed with two machine guns, four handguns, two makeshift silencers and ammunition. He was arrested by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies.
A progressive catfight has erupted between New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as they argue over who is more sympathetic to the homeless.
New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has admitted that street panhandlers and homelessness have “exploded” under Mayor Bill de Blasio, and it was a “mistake” to not acknowledge the problem.
While California prepares nervously for the coming El Niño, a host of unwanted consequences from the expected rainstorms could prove troublesome for the drought-ravaged state–mudslides, flash floods and now, a threat to the state’s unsheltered homeless population.
When it was time for three homeless veterans to be laid to rest, with no loved ones to serve as pallbearers, six Detroit high school students stepped forward, setting up a program similar to one they learned about in Cleveland.
The Sacramento Regional Transit Board of Directors instituted new rules on Monday aimed at cleaning up the city’s public transportation and improving service for riders — but riders with smelly body odor can keep their seats, for now.
A place in San Francisco’s Mission District that was recently named one of the “most beautiful spots” in the city by San Francisco Travel Magazine has turned into a human toilet, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
One Sacramento bride’s family turned a traumatic wedding event into an altruistic and beautiful affair, burying their despair after the groom backed out at the last second and using their $35,000 wedding meal to feed the homeless.
A Mexican politician became the target of criticism after she recently asked if giving a lethal injection to the region’s homeless and those with psychiatric ailments was a better option than letting them run wild. The comment was made by Olga Gutierrez de Machorro, a public official in the Mexican town of Tecamachalco Puebla
Following the departure of Pope Francis, the streets of eastern Holguín, Cuba, have been flooded with dozens of homeless people that residents say had “disappeared as if by magic” in the week before the Pope’s arrival.
The City of Los Angeles is preparing to declare a state of emergency on the epidemic levels of homeless population and is planning to use $100 million dollars to spearhead the fight that one councilman suggested is a precursor to
WWE wrestler Titus O’Neil treated a group of homeless people to lunch at a restaurant in San Diego over the weekend and documented the experience on social media.
Police in Gastonia, North Carolina, have arrested 19-year-old Donald Wallace Jr. for allegedly beating a 78-year-old homeless man to a point near death with a cinder block.
A light bulb flashed in Darcel Jackson’s head one night, while lying in bed in a homeless shelter in San Francisco, that the greatest thing he could do for homeless people would be to connect them to the internet.
LOS ANGELES — According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s biennial report, the homeless population of the city and county of Los Angeles climbed 12% in the last two years as tents, makeshift dwellings and cars used by the homeless skyrocketed by 85%.
Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck is in hot water with police unions after commenting on the police shooting of an unarmed homeless man in Venice Tuesday evening. Beck said, “Any time an unarmed person is shot by a Los Angeles police officer, it takes extraordinary circumstances to justify that. I have not seen those extraordinary circumstances,” according to the Los Angeles Times.
On Thursday, the Republic of Santa Monica, California, not content with its 2010 designation as the homeless capital of America, when 48,000 people lived on the streets, won a victory in its continuing quest to capture the title of America’s most anti-Christian city.
On Sunday, an apparently homeless man was shot and killed by Los Angeles police as he resisted attempts to subdue him. LAPD spokesman Sgt. Barry Montgomery said around noon the police arrived in response to a robbery call on 911. Montgomery said that LAPD officers used a Taser, although it was unclear whether the man, whose street nickname was “Africa,” was struck by the Taser.
A new ID card issued by the city of New York, called IDNYC, has drawn an unexpectedly huge response, as some New Yorkers who already have government-issued identification have joined enormous numbers of illegal immigrants, elderly residents, and even the homeless to clamor for such a card.
The story of professional golfer Robert Allenby’s mugging, which hooked badly when homeless people claimed that he fabricated it, has sliced back in the fairway after Honolulu police acknowledged a suspect in the robbery is in custody.
