Activist for abandoned infants wins $27 million
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All too often, the ring of Debi Faris-Cifelli&#39;s cell phone means that there is another abandoned newborn at the morgue, another forsaken child for her to name and bury in a shoebox-size coffin under a white cross in the California desert.
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More than 27 percent of babies born in the United States in 2003 were delivered by Caesarean section, the highest rate on record, according to a government report released yesterday.
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The family of a pregnant woman who died while taking experimental Aids drugs to protect her baby against the disease is suing the doctors, drug-makers and hospitals involved in the study for $10m (â¬7.3m).
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MCDONOUGH, Ga. - Rhiannon Barnes may be the luckiest 15-month-old ever. Or maybe her baby sitter is the fortunate one.  While playing with a thrift store book bought earlier in the day for 25 cents, Rhiannon uncovered $1,300 in cash stuck between the pages.
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Three of the seven American children abandoned at a Nigerian orphanage had suffered years of abuse, including broken bones and beatings with extension cords, before they were adopted by the woman who left them in Africa, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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Second baseman Brandon Phillips has agreed to a $27 million, four-year deal, settling the Cincinnati Reds' final arbitration case.
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Calimesa - A couple who provide funerals for abandoned infants and helped inspire a California law to save unwanted newborns won a $27-million (about R160-million) lottery jackpot - and plan to use the money for their advocacy work.
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A couple who provide funerals for dead abandoned babies and helped inspire a law to save unwanted newborns have won a &#36;27 million jackpot in the California lottery.
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The New Jersey decision is a legal victory for the drugmaker, which faces nearly 27,000 individual lawsuits from people claiming Vioxx harmed them.
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By Reid Magney, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Dec. 19--La Crosse County Administrator Steve O'Malley's plan for a "property tax raffle" to raise money for the Child Support Agency drew a lot of strong reactions among the Tribune's online readers.
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The search to find an effective drug to fight malaria received a huge financial boost today with a donation of $42.6 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Thursday he has decided to donate to charity the nearly $40,000 he received from a disgraced Democratic fundraiser who failed to show up for a California court hearing.
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Mariam Appeal received at least Â£230,000 in improper donations, Charity Commission to say.
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Children's charities win 20-year campaign to safeguard the welfare of 86,000 young runaways
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By Amy Burroughs, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 9-- -- Supporters of the United Way of Paducah-McCracken County got creative when it came to raising $1,020,140.75 in just five months.
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Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama is giving charity more than $40,000 in past political contributions linked to Chicago real estate developer and fast food magnate Antoin "Tony" Rezko, who is facing federal corruption charges, his campaign said Saturday.
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GREENVILLE, S.C. - A Goodwill Industries worker who turned in more than $5,000 she found in donated pajama pants will get to keep the money because the owner could not be found.