Recession sends older Americans to food pantries

Older Americans who were raised on stories of the Great Depression and acquired lifelong habits of thrift now find themselves crowding soup kitchens and food pantries in greater numbers for the first time after seeing retirement funds, second jobs and nest eggs wiped out by recession.

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Food banks burdened by high demand in sour economy

Soup kitchen workers are seeing new faces in line and charities are taking more calls for help as the recession makes for a less-than-bountiful Thanksgiving.

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Hungry suspect caught in Taco Bell parking lot

Officials say a suspected drug dealer who led police on a 90 mph chase in Indiana was arrested after he stopped suddenly at a Taco Bell parking lot.

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Cops: Hungry OH child shoplifted food, mom charged

Police in Cincinnati have charged a woman with child endangering after her 10-year-old son was caught shoplifting food because he had not been fed at home that day.

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Seal turns hatchery into all-you-can-eat buffet

Life is a big buffet for a young seal with a talent for breaking and entering. A young harbor seal somehow broke into a fish hatchery on Cape Cod on Tuesday and turned the place into an all-you-can-eat buffet.

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Food banks forced to partner with farms, fishermen

Vermont's only food bank is buying a farm.

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Winter of hunger looms in Afghanistan

The farmer squats barefoot on packed earth in front of his two-room mud house. He has looked at his bags of wheat, he says, and counted the days.

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Are Celtics hungry enough to repeat?

- Ambling off the court at halftime of a preseason yawner against the New York Knicks comes Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers. Crashing knuckles with an assortment of ushers and fans without making eye contact, Rivers is almost out of sight when a Celtics fan hurries to the metal rail above the tunnel.

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Food banks ask gardeners to grow extra for hungry

Sharon Crossman hadn't tasted fresh fruits or vegetables in a week. Since her husband had two heart attacks and stopped working, she has relied on disability checks and the free food provided by a food pantry.

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Food aid saves millions but world hunger lingers

Ferried in by helicopters and boats or loaded on the backs of yaks and elephants, massive amounts of food aid have reached millions of homeless or hungry people after disasters in the last few years.

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Man accused of stealing bracelet and swallowing it

A 25-year-old man bit off more than he could chew when he allegedly stole a gold bracelet from an 8-year-old girl and then swallowed the evidence, police in northern Mexico said Tuesday.

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Children not getting breakfast because of aid cuts

At dawn in a ramshackle elementary school in rural Cambodia, the children think of only one thing: their stomachs. They anxiously await the steaming buckets of free rice delivered to their desks.

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Half-eaten Snickers bar implicates hungry burglar

Police say DNA found on a half-eaten candy bar helped them zero in on a robbery suspect.

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Fake Coach Scamming Pa. Fast-Food Sites

Police in three western Pennsylvania towns are looking for a man who pretends to be a basketball coach and scams McDonald's restaurants out of food and money using bad checks.

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Researchers Say Bugs Could Ease Famine

Crickets, caterpillars and grubs are high in protein and minerals and could be an important food source during droughts and other emergencies, according to scientists.

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Chicken Bones Lead to Burglary Suspect

A trail of chicken bones left at a burglary scene more than a year ago has led investigators to a Kansas prison inmate with a long rap sheet and a hefty appetite.

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Burglar Steals Food, Leaves Valuables

This thief apparently had quite the appetite. Appleton police received a call Wednesday of a burglary — not of valuables but of food.

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French Beekeepers Brace for Asian Sting

Ambushing locals as they return home from work, foreign invaders are dismembering French natives and feeding them to their young.

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Ohio Burglar Stops to Make a Sandwich

Breaking into a home apparently creates an appetite. The burglar who broke into David Palmer's house in this northeast Ohio town over the weekend took coins, a camera and other items and then stopped to make a sandwich, investigators say.

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Ag Program Boosts African Farming

James Alede has never seen anything like it. His small farm has produced a bumper maize crop, and for the first time in recent memory he doesn't have to worry about his family going hungry.

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By Peter Greste BBC News, Parwan province, Afghanistan It is not hard to see why Alla Gul is upset. Her two-year-old daughter cries weakly in her arms with barely enough energy to eat.

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- A couple who picked up an abandoned puppy are now undergoing rabies treatments after they discovered the collie mix was infected with the disease.

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Please Help !!!! Take the poll>> Make a difference!!

Have you done your part to help the Diva's & Dudes Holiday cookbook endeavor???? This is a way for all people to make a difference this holiday season but only if we act quickly.

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A documentary showcasing the global takeover of our food, farms, and agriculture.

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When things really started to get hard for DC area food banks last year, they really felt that they had reached bottom and that it couldn't be any harder to do their jobs. Now they have at least a 34% increase of people in need, with donations dropping steadily.

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This Highway belongs to the Elite

I live on a busy highway. Just 25 feet from my front door is a four lane highway. It is a main vein between cities in the northern woods of Wisconsin. And I am happy here.

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ROME–The director of a UN food agency questions how world powers could commit so much money to fighting the financial crisis and not to feeding the 1 billion hungry.

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More than a million children regularly go to bed hungry in the US, according to a government report that shows a startling increase in the number of families struggling to put food on the table.

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According to a government report that was released today, Monday, there has been the largest rise ever in the number of Americans who lack proper access to adequate food.

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Around the world millions of children have to go to great lengths to get a proper education. In the fourth report in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Lorna Gordon talks to 11-year-old Jordan, whose long journey to school every morning involves a bike ride, a ferry, and a bus.

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Around the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because illness or disability prevent them going to school. In the third report in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Will Ross meets children in Tanzania who are overcoming visual impairment to learn.

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Around the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because of poverty or war. In the second report in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Katya Adler meets children in Gaza whose schooling has been repeatedly interrupted by conflict.

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A combination of the food crisis and the global economic downturn has pushed more than 1 billion people into hunger in 2009, U.N.

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A series of violent break-ins at multimillion-dollar homes in Aspen, Colorado, has left some residents of the wealthy ski resort afraid to go to bed at night.

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Authorities said a man was arrested after calling 911 twice for a ride and saying he was hungry.

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A dead rat lies in the middle of the dirt track leading to a cluster of wooden shacks. Young boys — barefoot and shirtless — play a lively game of marbles in the dried mud. It could be a scene from any of the notorious shantytowns that pervade Latin America.

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A Bay area food bank says they're seeing more people in need because of the economy and their shelves are almost bare.

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Excerpt: "" It was bad last fall, and it's only getting worse -- by record numbers. Harvesters, the food bank clearinghouse for the Kansas City metro area's food pantries, just closed their books on the fiscal year that ended June 30th, and the news was troubling, at least from …

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In order to confront the five major problems confronting America we have to provide workable solutions. Words & Promises Do Matter. Missouri Will Show The Way!

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Dr. James Dobson, a longtime leader of the Christian-right movement which played key roles in electing Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, appears to have admitted defeat in the so-called culture wars.

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Welcome to our Depression II 2009 and beyond

Just this week while going to the store I saw 4 homes on my street up for sale. This shocked me because each of the families living in these 4 homes have lived here for years. I know we are in a depression and everyone is wondering what it will be like, how bad will it be.

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Dear Mrs. Roosevelt, Who will be Mrs Roosevelt for our kids?

We are hearing Obama be compared with FDR, Kennedy and Reagan. Who will we compare our First Lady Michelle Obama to? Eleanor, Jackie or Nancy?

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PORTLAND, Ore. - She's been called one of the most power-packed anti-hunger advocates in the country. Amelia Hard created a program that now generates tens of thousands of dollars for the hungry. We caught up with Hard at a cooking class in Northwest Portland.

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Excerpt: Since ABC's "Nightline" aired a story last week about Salma Hayek's goodwill trip to Sierra Leone, there has been a world-wide outpouring of reaction.

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Hungry Children in USA, Unacceptable

To all: Please cut and paste this and read it.

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