The face of homelessness in Philadelphia is a changing phenomenon as more and more youths are struggling on the streets, fighting poverty with no place to go.
A video posted on YouTube a few days before Christmas in 2011 shows a young man striding purposefully into the woods as a cameraman asks what he's about to do.
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is defending the city's plan to ban feeding of the homeless in city parks, saying they need access to services including mental health and addiction counseling.
High School graduation is a proud day for any student. But it is particularly sweet for one North Carolina teenager who was abandoned by her parents and worked her way through school.
When his desire to kill at war was dashed by a tour of duty as a truck driver in Iraq, the young Marine returned home to wage combat in affluent Orange County.
Sometimes the men emerge from out-of-town police cruisers that stop at homeless shelters and then quickly drive off. Others turn up still wearing gowns from suburban hospitals.
Investigators are "extremely confident" that a man in their custody is responsible for all four recent killings of homeless men in Orange County, Anaheim Police Chief John Welter said Saturday.
A communication breakdown coupled with Pittsburgh's ban on overnight camping in city parks prevented about 300 people from sleeping outside overnight to raise money to help the homeless.