OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Oklahoma is leading the charge, becoming the first state to join a new national initiative aimed at ensuring that every child in foster care has a safe and stable home. Leaders ...

“A lot can happen in 12 years, but I felt like I let her down by not finding her a true forever home,” Aaron Foster tells PEOPLE Tereza Shkurtaj is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

Jesika Streeter didn’t think it would happen. As deputy director of animal care at Norfolk SPCA, she posted a callout on Facebook to get every dog in the shelter into a foster home for Christmas. Over ...

Adding a few licks, some snuggles, and a series of satisfying scritches to your holiday to-do list doesn't seem too difficult, especially when you know those scritches and snuggles are helping out a ...

The former owner of the “Friends” building in the West Village just earned a 79% profit on his investment. Jeff Sutton’s Wharton Properties sold the famous site at 90 Bedford St. for $32.7 million, ...

A tiny, gray rescue puppy was struggling to get healthy in his foster home until an unexpected intervention changed everything. Lori Comer is a longtime foster for Best Friends Animal Society in ...

The mom of a child who died in a Philadelphia foster home is suing two child welfare agencies for placing the boy in what she says was a crowded home. Sharee Collins told CBS News Philadelphia that ...

Carla is a writer from Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, now based in Atlanta. She’s an Emory alum with both a BA and MA in English, but more importantly, she’s a Pisces with lots of opinions about video games.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has been subject to ridicule after decades of citing a fictional middle-class family to justify his political positions. The New York Democrat has long referenced ...

SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The Portsmouth Humane Society is searching for someone to foster two kittens. The animal shelter says the kittens were found in the bushes outside of a T-Mobile store. In a ...

The operator of an adult foster home pleaded guilty to the neglect of patients, Oregon officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A former adult foster home owner pleaded guilty to the neglect of ...