PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Irene and Les Zan and their Philadelphia Homeless Outreach have been helping to feed and clothe homeless individuals in the city of Philadelphia for over 17 years. The ...

Leave the heroes to the comics. Of all the popular culture tropes used to describe people experiencing homelessness, one of the most fascinating — and misleading — is “the homeless hero.” In North ...

Clinton Whitman was awarded a Citizen Medal for Heroism yesterday. This was in Tuesdays (5-9-6) The Oregonian. While I believe the facts were somewhat inaccurate, it is clear that there is one correct ...

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Two-and-a-half years ago, Siloh Moses lost his job and became homeless, living on the streets of Las Vegas for seven months. After he got back on his feet, he didn’t forget the people he left behind.

ALPENA — Christina Kihn’s message for those seeking help at the Center of Charity is simple: If she can rebuild her life, she believes others can too. Kihn, who directs the Alpena nonprofit, said her ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) -- A father says he owes a debt of gratitude to a homeless man who shielded his daughter and her friends from the gunfire that erupted during Sunday's mass shooting in downtown ...

The homeless hero who police credited for cracking the Brown University shooting and connecting it to the murder of an MIT professor is being “taken care of” by the feds, The Post has learned. The ...