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Seven people are dead in Brownsville, Texas, after a car ran into pedestrians Sunday morning. The crash occurred at 8:30 a.m. near the Ozanam Center in Brownsville, a representative from the Brownsville Police Department told ABC News. In addition to those who died, up to six people are being treated for serious and minor injuries at the hospital, according to police. Police have a male suspect in custody, authorities said. The driver is in the hospital being treated and under 24-hour guard watch, police said. Tests are currently being performed to check for alcohol and drug use, police said. Investigators...

NEW YORK - After several years of back-and-forth battles, a homeless shelter has opened along the so-called Billionaires' Row in Manhattan. The former Park Savoy Hotel on West 58th Street is now a home for around 140 men. It quietly opened last Friday despite repeated and costly efforts by neighbors to block it. Only a handful of men have moved in so far and move-ins will be staggered each week until the shelter is full. The shelter is being run by not-for-profit social service provider WestHab. It will serve those who are either working or actively seeking employment. The people...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Hundreds of people have been moved from homeless shelters to an Upper West Side hotel. Neighbors say they were barely given notice and now they are upset. Bused in from Downtown, 283 men who are experiencing homelessness arrived at their new Upper West Side address: The Lucerne Hotel on West 79th Street. The Lucerne is the latest luxury hotel to become a temporary homeless shelter. Some neighbors told CBS2’s Nick Caloway they were angry. Others said they were scared. “I’m worried about whether there are going to be a lot of homeless men just hanging around...

As many as five people were stabbed Friday morning inside a Starbucks in the northern English city of Manchester – and counter-terrorism police launched an investigation after a suspect was caught, according to reports. “We are currently responding to an incident at the Arndale Shopping Centre in Manchester City Centre,” a Greater Manchester police spokesman said, according to the Telegraph. “A man in his 40s has been arrested on suspicion of serious assault. He has been taken to custody for questioning,” he added.

A Starbucks barista in England was caught on video trying to boot a homeless man as he chowed down on a meal purchased by a kind-hearted bystander outside the coffee chain. The footage, obtained by The Sun, shows the unidentified drifter, dressed in an open shirt, sitting outside a Starbucks in Southend, Essex, after a Good Samaritan spent $10 to buy him food after seeing the man savaging nearby. “Yeah, he can eat somewhere else,” a barista told the man and Sajid Kahhllon, who paid for the sandwich and chocolate cake moments earlier. “But he bought the food, he paid...

A Manhattan judge on Monday gave city officials the green light to open a controversial homeless shelter in the ritzy “Billionaires’ Row” neighborhood. State Supreme Court Justice Alexander Tisch rejected arguments from the West 58th Street Coalition and other opponents that the former Park Savoy Hotel doesn’t meet current safety standards and is unsafe in case of fire. Tisch ruled that while the only way out is through the lobby and the stairwell may be too narrow for both tenants and first responders at the same time, “these are all aspects for which the City and its agencies are supposed...

...rather than so many other countries across the globe.Not to make light of the plight of the poor in our country -- it just really says something about the bounty of our great nation when a man in line at a homeless shelter has a cell phone that takes pictures. Want to help some much less fortunate people across the globe without spending a single dime of your own? Go to www.freerice.com and spend a little time expanding your vocabulary while helping feed the destitute. It automatically adjusts for all ages/levels so it's something the whole family can be a part of.

NYC police on watch for Port courthouse bomber By Andy Smith and Stephanie Akin Staff writers New York City police are targeting a man who bombed Newburyport Superior Court 28 years ago, saying he poses a threat to next week's Republican National Convention. But an anti-war activist group has accused police of trying to "smear" their reputation by linking the group with the convicted radical who terrorized New England with a series of bombings in the 1970s. New York City police say Richard J. Picariello, 55, is among 50 activists whose criminal histories will earn them extra attention next week....

US authorities were warned a year ago that the ex-soldier suspected of carrying out 13 sniper attacks near the US capital may be a potential Islamic terrorist.A priest who runs a homeless shelter in this Pacific Northwest town where John Allen Muhammad lived for several months in 2001 and early 2002, raised the alarm last October, the Bellingham Herald newspaper said Friday."I felt like he was part of an organization," said Reverend Al Archer who runs the hostel where the Gulf War veteran stayed along with John Lee Malvo, 17, who was Friday charged along with Muhammad with six...