Homeless

Two men found dead in a Waterford hostel last night have been named locally as Paul Crotty and Mark Lyons - both in their mid-forties and from County Waterford. St Vincent de Paul regional administrator, David O’Neill, expressed his condolences to the men’s families. “Homelessness is a tough one for all…

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Dec. 1 Coronavirus updates: Florida becomes third state to pass 1 million casesDecember 1 news about the coronavirus pandemic. Florida on Tuesday became the third state in the nation to surpass the 1 million mark for Covid-19 cases.The family of Jose Garcia, 67, who is currently being treated for Covid-19…

After a string of injuries to key players, several coronavirus cases and other bad breaks, the San Francisco 49ers somehow find themselves still in the NFC playoff race heading into December. Now they must face a whole new challenge after Santa Clara County issued strict new coronavirus protocols that will…

Stephanie Taylor is the outreach manager at Covenant House Michigan, a nonprofit shelter for homeless youth. Stephanie Taylor Stephanie Taylor is the outreach manager at Covenant House Michigan, a shelter for homeless youth ages 18 to 24 located in Detroit. She spends her days making contact with at-risk youth to…

Wandering around Northwest Pasadena, I pressed my face against the window of a dingy pink stucco house at 265 Robinson Road. It was April, 2019, and in two blocks I had passed thirteen bungalows, duplexes, and multifamily homes that had gone through foreclosure in the past fifteen years. Twelve of…

Lake County News-Sun | Nov 29, 2020 at 5:52 PM Volunteers at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Libertyville and staff from Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 get ready to load some of the 1,000 Thanksgiving meals church volunteers prepared the families of the district’s 500 homeless students. (Steve…

Florida deputies have accused a homeless man of sexual assaulting a woman who let him stay in her home for the night.Pinellas County deputies said Clark Caplan, 44, was looking for a place to spend the night around midnight on Thanksgiving when he knocked on the woman’s door in St. Pete…

Residents and protesters in Los Angeles, California confronted law enforcement officers violently evicting homeless and housing-insecure families from state-owned houses at night on November 25 and 26. The families, members of a local housing activist group, argued that they were using the homes to “shelter in place” as Covid-19 cases…

A homeless shelter on Chicago’s West Side is grappling with an outbreak of COVID-19 cases, prompting concerns from advocates and organizations as the coronavirus surges nationwide. The Franciscan Outreach shelter, 2715 W. Harrison St. in Lawndale, had 55 of its 140 guests test positive for the virus last week, according…