Homeless

A Binghamton man, accused of brutally attacking a homeless man at the downtown bus station rejects a plea deal while his lawyer files a psychiatric defense.

A Binghamton man is formally charged with attempted murder in connection with a brutal attack on a homeless man at the downtown bus station in June.

The Broome County Youth Bureau is getting close to $200,000 to help over a dozen very diverse programs in the region.

A legal battle is looming over a New York City program that Broome County officials say is wrongly encouraging some of the Big Apple's homeless population to move to places like Binghamton.

Broome County officials are demanding that a New York City agency stop sending its homeless to the Binghamton area.

Frederick Callison moved to take a job about two years ago, but it fell through. Dreams crushed and out of money to home he found himself homeless. He's been line cook for most of his life, but without residence he can not get work. He's been sitting outside a grocery store in Sacramento and instead of asking for change, he's handing out his resumes.

When a man walked up to her register, one cashier thought he was just another homeless man. She was very wrong.

The Southern Tier Homeless Coalition and other groups are conducting regular canvassing of unsheltered individuals and families in the region to help gage the problem and offer assistance.

Meet Kirk Carman, a man who came up with a way to party with his friends and give back to his community at the same time.

When I was a young girl there was a man who used to sit on the stone wall outside my church and feed the pigeons with scraps of stale bread given to him by a local store. His name slips my memory, but he was a vet. And he was homeless.