Driver arrested after seven, including migrants, killed in Brownsville, Texas
Reuters At least seven pedestrians were killed and several others injured on Sunday when an SUV mowed down people near a homeless shelter that attends to migrants in Brownsville, Texas, police said. The male driver was in custody, Lieutenant Martin Sandoval of the Brownsville Police Department said, adding he was charged with reckless driving and […]
Church employee among five stabbed in Californian homeless shelter, says pastor
San Jose, CaliforniaAP One of the people wounded in a stabbing attack at a San Francisco Bay Area church that was being used as a homeless shelter was a church employee who tried to intervene, the church’s pastor said. Rev David Robinson of San Jose’s Grace Baptist Church told KGO-TV on Monday that the attacker, who fatally […]
Suspect arrested in fatal stabbings at California church
San Jose, CaliforniaAP A suspect has been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbings of two people and the wounding of three others at a church in California’s Silicon Valley that was being used as a homeless shelter, police said Monday. “We have one suspect in custody for last night’s homicide,” the San Jose Police […]
In depth – Chicago suburb seeks to block church’s winter homeless shelter
RNS Last month, Hope Covenant Church opened the first homeless shelter in Chicago’s affluent suburban Village of Orland Park in more than three decades. With temperatures dipping down near the single digits, the seasonal shelter has housed between 15 and 50 people one night every week, including a toddler and local public high school students. […]
ALL ABOARD: THE DOUBLE-DECKER BUSES HOUSING LONDON’S HOMELESS
ZOE TABARY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…