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Fort Lauderdale now owes $640,000 in attorneys’ fees nearly a decade after the city approved a ban on public feeding that was later ruled unconstitutional. The money will go to the five attorneys who represented Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs in the nonprofit group’s federal lawsuit against Fort Lauderdale — a case the city lost. The case, which centered on a city law that regulated when and ...

No good deed goes unpunished. The world has its share of heroic people who will risk their own lives to keep other people safe, but they don’t always get

The verdict is latest in a debate in many US cities over whether feeding the homeless is an act of charity or a crime that raises health and safety concerns among people who live and work nearby.

A man has been found not guilty of breaking a law against feeding homeless people outside a public library in Houston.

Phillip Picone was volunteering for the group 'Food Not Bombs' in the city of Houston, Texas, when he was slapped with a ticket and hauled to court over alleged 'health and safety issues'