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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
To make room for the planned extension of the 7 train, the Port Authority will evict the city's largest homeless drop-in center at the end of March, according to the Daily News . The Open Door shelter — which every day provides meals and showers to some 200 homeless men and women — would have closed sooner, but the city was able to convince the transit agency to delay a part of the line...
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the 13th juror (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Business owners in Fort Lauderdale repeatedly tried to convince Douglas Schutt to stop boozing and living outdoors, but he refused. Business owners on Las Olas Boulevard knew him as a helpful, homeless man who washed cars and did other cleaning chores in exchange for a few dollars. Douglas Schutt, 58, died Sept. 9 from a head injury he sustained in an accident, the Broward Medical Examiner's Office...
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Saint Petersblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
With a homeless population that probably makes Mumbai feel hospitable, the last thing downtown St. Petersburg needed was a low-grade, white-trash bikini club opening across the street from Williams Park. But there is a certain irony in the fact that this club, with a stripper pole that's not even attached to the ceiling and dancers that make the strippers in Pinellas Park look like Victoria's Secret...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
LYNN - Around 4 each afternoon, Arthur Foster pushes his slim frame along the gritty downtown streets toward the Lynn Emergency Shelter. Foster is 6 feet, 150 pounds, grips a worn purple cane, and seems tired. At 77, he is the oldest homeless veteran in Lynn - a city he seems to know little about and would like to leave ...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
FRAMINGHAM - The Southern Middlesex Opportunity Council has announced plans to mark Veterans Day by holding an open house at Larry’s Place, a residential facility for formerly homeless veterans recovering from substance abuse that has been at the center of a controversy involving town officials.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
A previously homeless young mother struggles to provide a comfortable home for her two children, one of whom is autistic.
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NYDailyNews (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The Port Authority plans to evict the city's largest homeless drop-in center to make room for an extension of the No. 7 subway, city officials said.
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NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The Port Authority plans to evict the city's largest homeless drop-in center to make room for an extension of the No. 7 subway, city officials said.
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Neighbors in a block of 26th Street in the city mourn death of Andre Haney, whom they considered one of their own Andre K. Haney ran errands, washed cars and swept up leaves for the residents of a secluded block in the city's Harwood neighborhood. The residents - many of them elderly women who have lived in their homes for decades - gave him money and food, and brought him inside for holiday meals....
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Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
A fire at a Spenard duplex Friday morning displaced three people and killed a dog, according to the Anchorage Fire Department. Firefighters were dispatched to 3421 Balchen Drive just before 10:30 a.m. to reports of heavy smoke and flames coming from one of the units. One adult and two children under age 4 were found already outside the home when firefighters arrived. They were not injured.
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TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
There are some non-profit education-based organizations whose mission and programs are so uniquely effective that they become stand-out models for others to emulate. I recently discovered Community of Unity in New York City which is definitely one such program. Founded in 2001 by Eric Komoroff , Community of Unity (CofU) aims to help young people discover and develop their unique potential and purpose...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
SEATTLE -- Police arrested a transient in the beating death of another man at a homeless camp in Seattle.
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PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Sir Ian McKellen will appear at a benefit evening for the Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT) on Sunday evening. The actor and TV presenter and star of Shameless Anthony Crank will be hosting an auction, with lots of prizes including an oil portrait of Sir Ian by the artist Anthony Lawrence.
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pbensonx7 | 02/16/2009
House struggles with his own beliefs as he takes on a case of priest with a disturbing past who runs a shelter for homeless people and sees a vision of Jesus.
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orianabvc | 02/05/2009
Done with the 100th episode, “House M.D.” is moving on with the episode “Unfaithful” where a priest who runs a homeless shelter sees a bleeding Jesus hovering at his doorstep. He is then the case of House and the team after he arrives in the ER.
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eddymkl | 02/05/2009
Done with the 100th episode, “House M.D.” is moving on with the episode “Unfaithful” where a priest who runs a homeless shelter sees a bleeding Jesus hovering at his doorstep. He is then the case of House and the team after he arrives in the ER.
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