The Plant City Garden Club and members of Plant City High School Key Club teamed up Oct. 27 to landscape two Habitat for Humanity homes on Drane Street. ...more

November 10, 2007

Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released today. ...more

November 8, 2007

Images of police with box cutters, slicing and discarding homeless people's tents as a fire and safety threat, cast a national spotlight on St. Petersburg's treatment of its neediest residents. ...more

November 2, 2007

Disabled by strokes, mental illness or the frailties of old age, residents of the Daphne Jones Boarding Home arrived at their most vulnerable. ...more

November 2, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - Video images of police wielding box cutters, slicing and discarding homeless people's tents deemed a fire and public safety threat, cast a national spotlight on St. Petersburg's treatment of some of its neediest residents. Now, a tent city preparing to open on Dec. 1 is aimed at avoiding a possible repeat of the widely publicized tent-slashing incident in January. ...more

October 31, 2007

at least until about a dozen police showed up one morning late last month and took what few belongings the people owned. ...more

October 20, 2007

Noe Donnat was sleeping on a concrete slab along the waterfront here last month when a police officer with a flashlight confronted him. The beam in the man's face woke him up, city police said. ...more

October 15, 2007

it has become an enduring habit that is not only engrained in our society, but in our household budgeting and decision-making processes as well. ...more

October 8, 2007