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GLOVERSVILLE - The smiling faces of Capital Region children looking for a place to call home are scattered around the Fulton County Regional Chamber of Commerce & Industry's lobby, the lofty space filled with echoing Christmas music and the smell of fresh pine.
MARION COUNTY, Fla. -- These days it's hard for many families to put food on the table and harder still for horse owners to feed their animals. In Marion County 56 horses were turned over to an adoption agency on Thanksgiving weekend by families who could no longer afford to take care of them.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Foster parents are forming a statewide support group and are reaching out to other foster and adoptive parents. Rachel Probst, support specialist for Mission West Virginia, said West Virginia has no active group that encompasses t...
The Perrys had six children, but they wanted more.
Sloppy record-keeping and poor management turned the Memphis Animal Shelter into a hell on earth for the animals that landed there, according to a city report on conditions at the shelter.The report, ordered after an October raid at the facility, says shelter employees were often confused about policies and procedures and received little advice or direction from supervisors. The disorder made ...
"Feel Safe? What are the Issues on Safety & Security in Grant County" will be held at 6:30 p.m. today at the Miller Library, WNMU campus. Hear directly from local police and fire officials about their thoughts on the safety and security of our small corner of New Mexico.
For years, a Maryland teenager believed he'd been abandoned by his birth parents. Turns out, they had been searching tirelessly for their son for more than a decade.
Later this week, a unique family reunion will add a joyful ending to a story which began 72 years ago at an infamous Memphis adoption agency. It also puts the spotlight back on a woman whose actions to personally change the lives of thousands of adopted children became motivated by her own greed.
A foster and adoptive parents group has named a Fort Wayne child services case manager as the best in Indiana.
Sam Kelly, 8, and Britney Kelly, 16, staple Christmas lights to the stairs of their Bridge Street home. Sam was adopted by Leslie and Dana Kelly when he was a baby.
Dakota County leads the state in success with a program aimed at adopting children who were wards of the state with forever families.
The rail ruckus is making all the headlines right now in Tallahassee. But below the radar, your state reps have been busy filing a slew of bills for the spring session — about everything from gay adoption and term limits to both the designs and the costs of getting new license plates.
Two Maryville couples tell of the roads that led them to adoption
To find parents for Kendrick, 13, and his brother Jerrel, 12, Washoe County Social Services is featuring the youngsters on its "Open Arms" adoption show on cable television and on the county's Web site.
Mass adoption ceremony unites new families
Before adoption entered into the picture for the Joe and Laura Knaapen family, the couple had opened their home to children in need of foster care. But they never considered adopting one of them.