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Riverside High Schools food pantry in Belle, West Virginia, has seen a dramatic increase in the number of Upper Kanawha Valley families it feeds each month. Currently, it feeds about 300 families on $5,000 a month. Distributions take place monthly.

Wednesday morning, members of the Owensboro Police Department, and their family members, busily filled cardboard boxes with food in the OPD community room.

JOSHUA TREE — A new program at Copper Mountain College is supporting students who are in foster care or were in the past.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - Sheriff deputies gathered at the Viking Drive Substation and loaded up their units with food boxes that were prepared for the Spirit of Christmas Food Box

TEXARKANA, Texas – As the Salvation Armys Red Kettle campaign proceeds through Christmas Eve, Texarkana officials have noted that donations are down by $17,000 from last years benchmark.

Sixty turkeys will also be delivered to the City of Memphis in order to feed a holiday meal for the homeless, and other food items will supplement various food pantries.

The church cites the changes to a recent study that found "families considered in poverty are actually starving." And this week, the problem is worse because schools are on break

LA GRANDE — Applications for the Angel Tree Program are open for the season, according to a post on Community Connection of Northeast Oregon’s social media page.

Sixty turkeys will also be delivered to the City of Memphis in order to feed a holiday meal for the homeless, and other food items will supplement various food pantries.

Program leaders said one in eight American children may be struggling with access to food.