Lawyers from the Disability Rights Legal Center say bureaucratic barriers are illegally and systematically knocking mentally ill homeless people off the welfare rolls in L.A. County, reports the Los Angeles Times.

A Wyoming man accused of killing one man and wounding another at a detox center this weekend was reportedly resentful and “hunting” for homeless people he had observed drinking in local parks.

Last year a homeless Ohio woman repeatedly walked for miles to face her rapist in court, because, according to a local detective, "He was counting on her not showing up."

Ed Haines had no idea he'd ridden the E Train wearing nothing but a pair of cross-trainers and tube socks until he saw himself on the cover of the New York Post.

I met Roger Blondell around 2 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon in early July. A tall chubby black man, Blondell was dressed in worn-in jeans and a shirt that looked like he'd had it on for a few days. Still, he didn't seem quite homeless. We were standing on the corner of 24th Street, at 7th Avenue, across from Whole Foods. "Can you spare some change?" he asked.

The homeless have it hard lately, what with all the anti-homeless measures municipalities have implemented to keep them off benches and sculptures and sidewalks. Except in Vancouver, where one charity is building "pop-up" shelters that invite the weary in.

A prank on the homeless sounds like a setup for something awful, but it turns out to be pretty sweet.

A homeless man died just steps away from a Mojave Desert jail early Wednesday, after being released by sheriff's deputies who reportedly decided "he was able to care for himself."

It's been two decades since Dr. Jim Withers first coined the term "street medicine," and he is still out there practicing what he preaches.

It started with a local news piece about illegal dumping in east Oakland, and ended with the reunion of two musical greats: Carlos Santana and his former Blues Band drummer Marcus "The Magnificent" Malone.

He's been referred to as "Super-Pope" for his superheroic feats of faith, but is Pope Francis an honest-to-Godness superhero?

Famed New York City bookstore the Strand has allegedly been hosing down homeless people with its sprinkler system in an effort to discourage them from sleeping beneath its trademark red awning overnight. Jesus Christ. We thought reading was supposed to make you more empathetic.

A formerly homeless man who turned in — and eventually was allowed to keep — $850 that he found on the street lost his general assistance and Medicaid benefits this week for failing to report the money.

"'In every city and state I have visited, the jails have become the de facto mental institutions,' says Esteban Gonzalez, president of the American Jail Association, an organization for jail employees."

Carol Fowler says she was fully prepared to lose the deposits she and her husband Willie put down on a lavish reception for their daughter's abruptly cancelled wedding.

Glen James, the homeless man who returned a backpack of $2,400 in cash and $39,500 in traveler's checks, was honored today by the Boston Police Department, while a Virginia man has also started a GoFundMe.com drive for the good samaritan. [Image via @BerniceWBZ]

Cardio Party! Comedian "The Fat Jew" is bringing Soulcycle's model to the masses, leading New York's homeless in spin classes atop docked Citibikes.

An up-and-coming filmmaker who had decided to live on the streets for a week to document the plight of the local homeless population was found dead inside a boarded-up hostel just three days after his experiment began.

Last Friday in Kansas City, rich engaged woman Sarah Darling spotted poor homeless man Billy Ray Harris in a part of Kansas City called The Plaza. Harris was holding a cup full of spare change, so Darling, because she felt bad that one time or perhaps because she's always been generous, emptied her coin purse into the cup and walked off, probably happy about having performed that day's Good Deed.

A homeless, hatchet-wielding hitchhiker named Kai is being hailed as a hero after saving a woman from the clutches of a bear-hugging racist who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.