Volunteers tie the knot at Springfield, Ill., homeless shelter where they met

October 4th, 2009 Suspects in Mass. church fire face new chargesSPRINGFIELD, Mass.

October 4th, 2009 'Crash' cast helps feed homeless in New MexicoALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The cast and crew of the TV series "Crash" have done a good deed for some of Albuquerque's homeless.

September 24th, 2009 Correction: Postal worker theft storySPRINGFIELD, Mass. — In a Sept.

September 22nd, 2009 Mass. postal worker admits to stealing 30,000 DVDsSPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A former postal service employee has pleaded guilty to stealing more than 30,000 DVDs that moved through a western Massachusetts post office.

September 16th, 2009 Woman held on $500k bail in womb-cut kidnap caseWORCESTER, Mass. — A woman accused of kidnapping a baby who had been cut from her mother's womb was ordered held on $500,000 cash bail Wednesday after she was returned to Massachusetts from New Hampshire, where she was found in a homeless shelter with the infant.

August 20th, 2009 Fashion-forward Miamian helps homeless land jobsMIAMI — The three homeless men stand before well-groomed Frank Kelly, "America's Best Dressed Real Man" of 2007, according to Esquire Magazine. He's there to help them get work.

August 20th, 2009 Fla. man helps homeless prepare for jobsMIAMI — The homeless in Miami are getting a makeover — all in the hopes of finding a job. Project Vacant Streets is an initiative to get the homeless back on their feet, one job at a time.

July 30th, 2009 Indo-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK - New York City is making an attractive offer to its homeless - a one-way ticket out of the city and its expensive shelter system to save a hefty $36,000 a year per family. Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the programme Wednesday saying it's a heck of a lot cheaper for city hall to buy a one-way ticket (on average $218) versus providing an apartment that costs $36,000 dollars for a year.

July 29th, 2009 NYC offers free airfare to homeless to leave cityNEW YORK — New York City is buying one-way plane tickets for homeless families to leave the city. It's part of a Bloomberg administration program to keep the homeless out of the expensive shelter system, which costs $36,000 a year per family.

July 9th, 2009 Homeless numbers include more familiesWASHINGTON — The face of homelessness in the United States is changing to include more families and more people who live in the suburbs and rural communities. The number of homeless has remained steady since 2007, but within the overall count are trends that can tell officials where federal resources would do the most good, the Housing and Urban Development Department says in its annual report to Congress being released Thursday.

July 2nd, 2009 Teen gets life in prison for killing homeless manABILENE, Texas — An Texas teenager has been sentenced to life in prison for beating a homeless man to death in a trash bin. Sixteen-year-old Michael Martinez Jr.

June 11th, 2009 Maine Homeless youths helped by lawAUGUSTA, Maine — State services to help homeless youths and runaways in Maine will be bolstered under a bill that's been signed into law. Gov. John Baldacci yesterday marked enactment of the bill with its sponsors.

May 9th, 2009 NYC charging rent at homeless sheltersNEW YORK — Even the homeless can't escape the high price of a night in New York City. City officials this month began charging rent to some families staying in homeless shelters.

May 9th, 2009 Attacks on homeless become hate crime in Md.ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland has become the first state in the nation to protect homeless people under a hate-crimes law.

April 30th, 2009 Polish official: 23 dead in Polish shelter blazeWARSAW, Poland — Polish prosecutors are raising the death toll from a fire that ripped through a homeless shelter in mid-April to 23 after DNA tests on the victims. Malgorzata Wojciechowicz, a spokeswoman for prosecutors in Szczecin, said Thursday that 23 people were killed in the blaze, including 13 children.