Tag: homeless
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Suella Braverman plan to stop tents for homeless people junked from Kings Speech
[ad_1] Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Home secretary Suella Braverman’s plan to restrict charities from giving out tents to homeless people has been junked from the King’s Speech by No 10. Rishi Sunak is uncomfortable with the language…
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Pregnant and addicted: Homeless women see hope in street medicine
[ad_1] REDDING — Five days after giving birth, Melissa Crespo was already back on the streets, recovering in a damp, litter-strewn water tunnel, when she got the call from the hospital. Her baby, Kyle, who had been born three months prematurely, was in respiratory failure in the neonatal intensive care unit and fighting for his life.…
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Homeless man charged with capital murder and rape in death of a 5-year-old girl
[ad_1] TOPEKA, Kan. — A 25-year-old homeless man was charged Thursday in the rape and killing of a 5-year-old Kansas girl who died despite firefighters’ efforts to save her life in a gas station parking lot. Mickel Cherry faces one count of capital murder — which would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty —…
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Lawsuit seeks repeal of L.A. homeless emergency declaration
[ad_1] A Westside-based nonprofit group filed a lawsuit Monday that seeks to strike down Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ declaration of a local emergency on homelessness and housing, calling it a “vast and illegal expansion of mayoral power.” Fix the City, which has sued city government several times over planning and development decisions, said in…
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Why an Ontario city is now permitting homeless encampments and tiny homes in parks
[ad_1] Andrea Horwath speaks to supporters during a campaign rally in 2022. (Geoff Robins/The Canadian Press) Canada’s homelessness crisis went from bad to worse during the pandemic years, as encampments popped up in municipalities across the country. In the past, these tent cities were forcibly removed by local law enforcement. (For example: the now infamous…
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Elderly, homeless most vulnerable in Phoenix’s unrelenting heat
[ad_1] Elderly, homeless most vulnerable in Phoenix’s unrelenting heat – CBS News Watch CBS News Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday recorded its 23rd straight day with temperatures above the 110-degree mark. The scorching heat has first responders rushing to save the city’s most vulnerable populations. Emma Lockhart has more. Be the first to know Get browser…
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Michael Neely, leader in L.A. homeless services, has died
[ad_1] Michael E. Neely, a Vietnam veteran who evolved from the fiery leader of Skid Row’s March to the Sea to become one of the most innovative and influential minds in Los Angeles homeless and social services policy, has died at age 74. A former Marine and recovering drug addict, Neely was living in a…
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Randomly stabbing homeless men lands Calgarian penitentiary sentence
[ad_1] Breadcrumb Path Hyperlinks Native Information Crime Asher Atter focused three folks in fewer than 20 minutes Revealed Jun 12, 2023 • 2 minute learn The brass doorways outdoors the Calgary Courts Centre have been photographed on Tuesday, September 27, 2022. Picture by Gavin Younger /Postmedia Article content material Town man who randomly stabbed three…
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‘Homeless and vulnerable’ man, 46, found stabbed to death in car park in London as cops hunt killer on the loose
[ad_1] A MAN regarded as doubtlessly homeless and susceptible has been discovered stabbed to demise in a carpark, as cops hunt for the killer. A homicide investigation was launched after the physique of Ion Radu, 46, was present in a carpark in Homelands Drive, close to Crystal Palace, south-east London, Scotland Yard stated. 5 The…