San Francisco Clears City's Largest Homeless Camp

Published March 20, 2013

San Francisco clears city's largest homeless camp

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… cleared San Francisco's largest homeless camp this week are trying a new approach to keep its former residents from returning: sending them to a triage center where they can stay while counselors try to arrange housing, drug treatment and other …
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Houston lawyer Gaynelle Griffin Jones, 64, dies

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She was a recipient of the Sarah Hughes Outstanding Achievement Award from the State Bar of Texas Women's Section in 1998. She served on the board for the Phoenix House of Texas, a teenage drug treatment program. Jones was also a deaconess at …
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Grieving husband pushes bill for unproven remedies

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Access to drugs is so poor the government started a 200 million pound (US$ 302 million) emergency fund in 2010 to try to get patients quicker treatment; the U.K. spends about half what France spends on cancer drugs. According to the Organization for …
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