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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/3069 Charity and Volunteering en-us Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:20:29 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/3069 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080816/ap_on_re_us/missouri_tiger_attack ap/20080816/missouri_tiger_attack AP Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:20:29 GMT AP - Owners of an eastern Missouri park are moving their animals to a facility in Oklahoma as part of a plan to shut the place down two weeks after a tiger attacked a volunteer. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080814/ap_on_re_us/immigration_self_deportation ap/20080814/immigration_self_deportation AP Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:10:05 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080814/ap_on_re_us/immigration_self_deportation"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080805/capt.b12dd96857de46879fa79d7f8f14e49d.immigration_self_deportation_azmy102.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=vGXXd5Oqt0gEzeJqsaXgzw--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official monitors the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, in Phoenix. Federal authorities in Arizona have launched a pilot program aimed at encouraging illegal immigrants who haven't followed deportation orders to arrange their departure from the country. Those choosing to sign up for the program would turn themselves in at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building. (AP Photo/Matt York)" border="0" /></a>AP - Just six illegal immigrants volunteered to leave the United States in the first week of a pilot program inviting nearly a half-million people to self-deport, federal officials said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080814/ap_on_re_us/immigration_self_deportation"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080805/capt.b12dd96857de46879fa79d7f8f14e49d.immigration_self_deportation_azmy102.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=vGXXd5Oqt0gEzeJqsaXgzw--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official monitors the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, in Phoenix. Federal authorities in Arizona have launched a pilot program aimed at encouraging illegal immigrants who haven't followed deportation orders to arrange their departure from the country. Those choosing to sign up for the program would turn themselves in at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building. (AP Photo/Matt York)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080813/ap_on_re_us/democratic_party_shooting ap/20080813/democratic_party_shooting AP Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:32:51 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080813/ap_on_re_us/democratic_party_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080813/capt.4cc8082cb0354bd88d83a34bd4bf6d29.democratic_shooting_ardj103.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=.lYcN0cgDaGKI2.espWZ3g--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Police crime scene tape surrounds the Democratic Party of Arkansas headquarters building near the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., after police were called to a shooting Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)" border="0" /></a>AP - A man barged into the Arkansas Democratic headquarters and opened fire Wednesday, fatally shooting the state party chairman before speeding off in his pickup. Police later shot and killed the suspect after a 30-mile chase.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080813/ap_on_re_us/democratic_party_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080813/capt.4cc8082cb0354bd88d83a34bd4bf6d29.democratic_shooting_ardj103.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=.lYcN0cgDaGKI2.espWZ3g--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Police crime scene tape surrounds the Democratic Party of Arkansas headquarters building near the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., after police were called to a shooting Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080812/ap_on_re_us/plane_crash ap/20080812/plane_crash AP Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:42:12 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080812/ap_on_re_us/plane_crash"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080812/capt.736f743710c5484cb8a2ee822e473477.aptopix_plane_crash_mark104.jpg?x=130&y=103&q=85&sig=5sC4mDLG8H9pfAbG4hCK7Q--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="A chaplain from the Mansfield Fire Department says a prayer by the wreckage of a still smoldering small plane that crashed in the parking lot of a supermarket in Easton, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008. Preliminary reports indicated that three people were killed. (AP Photo/Robert Klein)" border="0" /></a>AP - A small plane carrying a cancer patient to Boston went into a nosedive and crashed Tuesday in a grocery store parking lot, killing all three people on board, authorities said. It was the third fatal crash in as many months for a network of charities that ferry patients to medical treatment.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080812/ap_on_re_us/plane_crash"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080812/capt.736f743710c5484cb8a2ee822e473477.aptopix_plane_crash_mark104.jpg?x=130&y=103&q=85&sig=5sC4mDLG8H9pfAbG4hCK7Q--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="photo" title="A chaplain from the Mansfield Fire Department says a prayer by the wreckage of a still smoldering small plane that crashed in the parking lot of a supermarket in Easton, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008. Preliminary reports indicated that three people were killed. (AP Photo/Robert Klein)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080812/ap_on_re_us/abducted_children ap/20080812/abducted_children AP Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:07:39 GMT AP - A former Red Cross volunteer charged with kidnapping for taking five young Hurricane Katrina survivors from their mother filed paperwork Monday seeking custody of the children. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080812/ap_on_re_us/notre_dame_kidney_donation ap/20080812/notre_dame_kidney_donation AP Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:46:01 GMT AP - A former president of the University of Notre Dame is recovering after donating a kidney in a four-patient transplant. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080811/ap_on_re_us/katrina_housing_probe ap/20080811/katrina_housing_probe AP Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:52:40 GMT AP - Federal agents descended Monday on a nonprofit hired by the city to run a home cleanup program after Hurricane Katrina and were photographed carting off boxes, days after a U.S. attorney announced an investigation involving the organization. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080810/ap_on_re_us/texas7_execution ap/20080810/texas7_execution AP Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:50:49 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080810/ap_on_re_us/texas7_execution"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080810/capt.1f5eb1490d0942f3b329cbf4b0d93cc0.texas_7_execution_dn102.jpg?x=124&y=130&q=85&sig=Evkm68iYr2POY8Vx_rZUeQ--" align="left" height="130" width="124" alt="This is an undated file photo of Irving, Texas, police officer Aubrey Hawkins, who was killed in Dec. 2000 during a suburban Dallas sporting goods store robbery. Michael Rodriguez, a member of the 'Texas 7' prison escapees, who was convicted in Hawkin's death, is set to become the first of the six surviving fleeing convicts — all of them now on death row — to go to the death chamber. (AP Photo/Irving Police, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Michael Rodriguez remembers the exhilaration of newfound freedom when he hid in the back of a stolen truck as he and six of his buddy convicts staged one of Texas' most notorious prison breaks.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080810/ap_on_re_us/texas7_execution"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080810/capt.1f5eb1490d0942f3b329cbf4b0d93cc0.texas_7_execution_dn102.jpg?x=124&y=130&q=85&sig=Evkm68iYr2POY8Vx_rZUeQ--" align="left" height="130" width="124" alt="photo" title="This is an undated file photo of Irving, Texas, police officer Aubrey Hawkins, who was killed in Dec. 2000 during a suburban Dallas sporting goods store robbery. Michael Rodriguez, a member of the 'Texas 7' prison escapees, who was convicted in Hawkin's death, is set to become the first of the six surviving fleeing convicts — all of them now on death row — to go to the death chamber. (AP Photo/Irving Police, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080808/ap_on_re_us/notre_dame_kidney_donation ap/20080808/notre_dame_kidney_donation AP Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:13:40 GMT AP - A former University of Notre Dame president plans to donate a kidney to a woman Monday in a four-patient transplant procedure involving his nephew as a recipient. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080804/ap_on_re_us/volunteer_firefighters ap/20080804/volunteer_firefighters AP Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:56:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080804/ap_on_re_us/volunteer_firefighters"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080804/capt.517972c208f64658910e75b91cf49d1b.volunteer_firefighters_nenh102.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=i7E4pzjY5HYaSBDixmjAUg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Instructor Todd Brim, left, and volunteer firefighters from left: Chad Palensky, of Ceresco, Dustin Augustyn, of Osceola, Matt Bower, of Ceresco, Don Fiedler, of Cedar Biuffs, and Jeff Stunkel, of Ansley, advance toward a propane 'christmas tree' to practice pushing flames away from a valve during the 71st Annual Nebraska State Fire School in Grand Island, Neb. Volunteer fire and rescue departments nationwide are struggling with declining membership, increased costs and changing attitudes toward a vocation with roots dating to the early 1700s. State and federal lawmakers are taking action to help reverse the trend because volunteers are often the first responders to events ranging from floods to fires, and some say the shortage presents a looming crisis. (AP Photo/Scott Kingsley)" border="0" /></a>AP - Simple numbers were working against the fire and rescue department in this town of 400 along Interstate 80. Unbeknownst to six people in a Suburban that had just wrecked on the busy interstate, the math didn't favor them either.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080804/ap_on_re_us/volunteer_firefighters"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080804/capt.517972c208f64658910e75b91cf49d1b.volunteer_firefighters_nenh102.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=i7E4pzjY5HYaSBDixmjAUg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Instructor Todd Brim, left, and volunteer firefighters from left: Chad Palensky, of Ceresco, Dustin Augustyn, of Osceola, Matt Bower, of Ceresco, Don Fiedler, of Cedar Biuffs, and Jeff Stunkel, of Ansley, advance toward a propane 'christmas tree' to practice pushing flames away from a valve during the 71st Annual Nebraska State Fire School in Grand Island, Neb. Volunteer fire and rescue departments nationwide are struggling with declining membership, increased costs and changing attitudes toward a vocation with roots dating to the early 1700s. State and federal lawmakers are taking action to help reverse the trend because volunteers are often the first responders to events ranging from floods to fires, and some say the shortage presents a looming crisis. (AP Photo/Scott Kingsley)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080804/ap_on_re_us/kids_meals ap/20080804/kids_meals AP Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:04:50 GMT AP - Parents looking for healthy meal choices for their children are likely to find slim pickings on the menus of the nation's top restaurant chains, according to a report released Monday by a nonprofit public health group. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080804/ap_on_re_us/volunteer_firefighters_glance ap/20080804/volunteer_firefighters_glance AP Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:37:46 GMT AP - Several states have passed laws to encourage people to become volunteer firefighters and to make it easier for volunteers to pull away from work, and to keep employers from punishing employees who leave to fight fires or respond to emergency calls, according to David Finger with the National Volunteer Fire Council. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080728/ap_on_re_us/volunteering ap/20080728/volunteering AP Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:24:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080728/ap_on_re_us/volunteering"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080727/capt.33fb2b9cb9274c19a530e2b58ddb931b.volunteering_gfx281.jpg?x=130&y=114&q=85&sig=iQMr3WzEzjba85kK9orm2Q--" align="left" height="114" width="130" alt="HOLD FOR RELEASE AT 12:01 a.m. EDT Sunday; graphic shows volunteering rates by state and cities; two sizes; 1c x 3 7/8 inches; 46.5 mm x 98.4 mm; 2c x 3 3/8 inches; 96.3 mm x 85.7 mm" border="0" /></a>AP - Blame it on the traffic. Or the number of new immigrants. Or the allure of the beach. Whatever the reason, Miami has secured the bottom spot — No. 50 among major U.S. cities — in new rankings of the percentage of adults who volunteer.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080728/ap_on_re_us/volunteering"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080727/capt.33fb2b9cb9274c19a530e2b58ddb931b.volunteering_gfx281.jpg?x=130&y=114&q=85&sig=iQMr3WzEzjba85kK9orm2Q--" align="left" height="114" width="130" alt="photo" title="HOLD FOR RELEASE AT 12:01 a.m. EDT Sunday; graphic shows volunteering rates by state and cities; two sizes; 1c x 3 7/8 inches; 46.5 mm x 98.4 mm; 2c x 3 3/8 inches; 96.3 mm x 85.7 mm" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080726/ap_on_re_us/doctor_molest ap/20080726/doctor_molest AP Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:37:18 GMT AP - About two months ago, Dr. Kevin Antario Brown was hobnobbing with guests at a celebrity poker tournament at the Playboy Mansion, his disaster-relief medical charity the beneficiary of the lavish event.