The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free dinners across the city this Thanksgiving — meals planned by a star chef, cooked by one of New York's ritziest caterers and cleaned up by employees of one of Wall Street's most vilified financial firms.
Billy Crystal traded a stage for a Salvation Army center to help serve an early Thanksgiving lunch to the needy in Dallas.
A woman took a stranger's toddler son over her knee and spanked him three times inside a Salvation Army store after he said something that annoyed her, police said Wednesday.
The Salvation Army is struggling with dwindling donations across the country that will make it hard to give long-term assistance after a disaster, and a spokesman for the charity says "we have to hope and pray" this year's hurricane season is mild.
Elkhart, Ind. - As the economic downturn began to take its toll in Elkhart, demand for help from the Salvation Army soared.
Twelve years heading the Salvation Army's downtown homeless shelter had done little to prepare Janeane Schmidt for the recent night when a soft-spoken biological male transitioning into a female walked in.
Often the last resort for those in need, the Salvation Army in some cities is experiencing a budget crunch of its own despite a sharp increase in donations.
Salvation Army administrators say the annual Red Kettle campaign set a record of $130 million in donations last year despite the recession.
The volunteer emptying Salvation Army kettles in southwest Florida recently came across something that stood out from the piles of spare change and crumpled up bills: a 1911 Liberty Eagle gold coin worth around $1,000.
The leader of a Wisconsin Salvation Army will lose his job if he goes ahead with plans to marry outside the organization.
A volunteer ringing the bell at a Salvation Army kettle in south-central Pennsylvania got an unusual donation: a diamond ring. The ring was handed to August Memmi, who volunteered for the Salvation Army in Harrisburg during his lunch hour Tuesday.
It's a true season of change: The Salvation Army is experimenting with a plastic alternative for folks who don't have cash to throw in a holiday red kettle.
The Salvation Army's ubiquitous holiday bell ringers will have a new tool as they try to raise funds through the holidays — text messaging.
The best bargain at the Salvation Army thrift store in Kailua-Kona was a Richard Simmons videotape. But Mikela Mercier, 11, decided to pass up the chance to buy the tape for a few coins after she found a surprise inside: $1,000 in $100 bills.
Charles Lane-Bey combed through racks of blue jeans at a Salvation Army thrift store and held up a pair with potential to his 8-year-old son, Edward, who swung them over his shoulder with a smile.
This time last year, Braxter Cundiff had a job and an apartment in Albany, N.Y. Now he relies on the Capital City Rescue Mission for his meals and shelter.
Child endangerment and obstruction charges were dropped Thursday against a woman who briefly left her 2-year-old daughter sleeping in the car while she and her two older daughters poured coins into a Salvation Army kettle.
A Salvation Army worker who was ordered by a judge to spend a night homeless for stealing a holiday kettle containing about $250 returned to court Friday with red eyes and red cheeks.
A judge on Thursday ordered a Salvation Army worker who stole a holiday kettle containing about $250 to spend the night homeless.
Salvation Army Major Richard Hathorn knew when and where it would happen, but he still doesn't know who slipped the $1,000 bill into one of the charity's Christmas kettles.
A platinum coin estimated to be worth more than $1,000 couldn't fit in a Salvation Army kettle, so the donor handed it over to the bell ringer.
Less than two weeks after a man put 30 $100 bills into a Salvation Army kettle, someone decided to do one better.
A Salvation Army shelter in a well-to-do Kansas county has an unprecedented waiting list that includes families who've lost their homes to foreclosure.
On 31 March 1901, the Skinner household at 12 Collingwood St, in the Caldewgate district of Carlisle, contained nine persons of the extended family, as enumerated on the English census.
Volunteers at a Salvation Army store in the Melbourne suburb of Rowville made a shock discovery as they were sorting through donations dropped off last week.
Last night, Mike Huckabee spoke at the Salvation Army's Annual Appreciation Dinner and, before his address, told the press that he's like to do away with the federal government's emergency response system in favor of relying of charitable foundations and donations because that …
Police say a woman has been arrested for allegedly spanking another person's 2-year-old son in a Cincinnati store.
Eight lifeguards were on duty Friday when a 6-year-old girl was found unresponsive in the deep end of the Kimberly Park Pool, the Winston-Salem Police Department said Monday.
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A North Carolina woman reportedly dumped an elderly relative at a shelter in Bradenton on the way to Walt Disney World.
- A north Florida man killed his disabled, former girlfriend, buried her body in his back yard and then gave her wheelchair to the Salvation Army, deputies said.
Donations to The Salvation Army's iconic red kettles set a new national record of $130 million in 2008, surpassing the previous record of $118 million set in 2007.
Many say a depression doesn't have to be great, that the economy can sink into a milder depression. The Salvation Army says it's happening now, and in San Diego County, people are standing in line outside a Salvation Army waiting for donated bread.
A former Salvation Army sergeant has gone on trial in the Supreme Court for alleged sexual abuse of four boys at a former home at Wistow in the Adelaide Hills.
Stein Mart has partnered with The Salvation Army for the second consecutive year for the national Give & Receive event
In the 1990s, Florence McKay found a man wandering in the hall at the church. When she asked about him, church officials told her he was one of the homeless men they sometimes allowed to sleep in the hallways or in the stairwells.
Amazing, simply amazing! 100 years old and still volunteering.
Someone with a heart of gold is dropping valuable coins into Salvation Army kettles in metro Denver.
The coin was found in the collection kettle at the Kroger on Kingston Pike in Bearden. Jonathan Haskell, Salvation Army director of community relations, said the coin obviously belonged to a collector because it was in a case.
Cough drops. Earrings. Rubber bands. Keys. Stray pills. Nuts and bolts. Even the occasional baby tooth.
Salvation Army workers in Papua New Guinea have dismissed reports that women in the remote Highlands region are killing male babies to end a tribal war that has spanned more than 20 years.
The leader of the Oshkosh Salvation Army will lose his job if he goes ahead with plans to marry outside the organization.
"It was more surprising to us that we had to ask for help," said Dan Lail. "It's not easy to go someplace and not start crying -- because you get very emotional."
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Contributions to the thousands of iconic red kettle donation stations that dot the nation each holiday season are slowing, officials say, and demands for help are rising.
The Salvation Army's annual Santa Shuffle is a family-fun event that raises funds to assist those in need during the Christmas season. Also, year-round vital services and programs provided by The Salvation Army will benefit from the proceeds.
A volunteer ringing the bell at a Salvation Army kettle in south-central Pennsylvania got an unusual donation: a diamond ring.
Today, November 17, 2008, The Salvation Army's National Christmas Kettle Fundraising Campaign launches, aimed at raising money to fight poverty in Canada during Christmas and throughout the year.