87% of women living at Union Rescue Mission were not up to date on cancer screenings.

Friends and community members gathered Saturday to honor Shirley Raines, the beloved nonprofit founder and CEO who helped ...

On Saturday, a downtown Los Angeles church has invited everyone to join the memorial service for a Skid Row homeless activist ...

Shirley Raines, otherwise known as "Ms. Shirley," the social media creator and founder of Beauty 2 The Streetz, who is known ...

Shirley Raines, a social media creator known for feeding and caring for homeless people, has died at 58, according to her organization Beauty 2 The Streetz.

A new player is charging into one of America’s rawest urban flashpoints — Skid Row, the 50-block pressure cooker in downtown Los Angeles where the city’s homelessness crisis thrives. The privately ...

Holding the coffee she received at Los Angeles's Downtown Women's Center, Sylvia Welker steers her electric wheelchair toward the curb. It's at this spot every day that she feeds the pigeons of LA's ...

Shirley Raines — the activist known for distributing food, hygiene products and other resources to Skid Row's homeless community — died at age 58 Raines’s nonprofit Beauty 2 The Streetz confirmed her ...

LOS ANGELES — Standing on a busy street in Skid Row on a recent sunny day, Mary Marfisee tried to block out street noise as she popped her stethoscope into her ears. Dozens of people were milling ...

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, one of the top Republican candidates running for California governor, met a woman sprawled on the sidewalk as he walked around Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles.

Skid Row is one of the most concentrated homeless areas in the United States, and it’s hard to understand until you see it up ...