Vets return to streets to reach the homeless
Not far from where the Boston Massacre helped sow the seeds for the Revolutionary War, David Dyer points toward the underpass where he’d score crack cocaine by day and the train depot where he’d sleep some nights.
William Browning: The reluctant Samaritan
Last year I lived in Jacksonville, Fla., and at the corner store near our home there was a man who regularly sat hunched beneath a pay phone. I saw him a lot while coming home from work. He was terribly thin and always in tattered clothing. It would be O.K. to call him homeless.
Homeless man found sleeping in hotel presidential suite
PITTSBURGH — A homeless man has gone from the proverbial penthouse to the big house after he was found sleeping in the presidential suite at
Homeless man glad to turn in lost money
BOSTON — A homeless Boston man who police said turned in a backpack containing tens of thousands of dollars in cash and traveler’s checks said
Charges filed in case of men found held in Texas home
HOUSTON — A 31-year-old man was charged Saturday in connection with the discovery of four malnourished men being held against their will in a dungeon-like
Resources limited for growing number of homeless students
More than 150 children in the Columbus Municipal School District do not know the comfort of sleeping in the same bed every night or the other comforts of home so many take for granted. In the 2012-2013 school year, 154 children were classified as homeless in the district.
Michigan charity cries foul on Columbus ‘Angels’ group
The director of a Michigan-based charity says a Columbus charity is claiming an association with her group that has never existed.
Terry Bazin, director for Angel Mission in Calumet, Mich., says the people who are running the Columbus charity have lied about their experience and affiliation with the Michigan charity.
Homeless rate steady in latest government estimate
A vigorous effort to house the homeless has been countered somewhat by a sluggish economy.
Once-homeless science whiz moves into new NY house
BAY SHORE, N.Y. — A New York teen who was living at a homeless shelter when she was picked as a semifinalist in a prestigious national science competition has moved into her new home.
Samantha Garvey and her family were handed the keys to their house in Bay Shore, Long Island on Saturday.
Birney Imes: Talking Jesus by the side of the road
Chris Colley is a holy man who sleeps under bridges. This year he has also slept in a preacher’s garage apartment and recently camped behind the farm shop of a Mennonite in Aberdeen. He’s just finished reading a book about Daniel Boone and Abraham Lincoln he got while in Hopkinsville, Ky., but mostly he reads from a red, palm-sized Gideon’s Bible.
Community reaches out to feed its own
In 2009, across America, 17.4 million households — nearly 15 percent of the country — weren’t sure where their next meal would come from.
One step closer to the dream
Genesis Church will be allowed to have a child day care center at the old Hughes school building but not a homeless shelter, according to a unanimous recommendation made at Monday’s Columbus Planning Commission meeting.