Girls Get Donations in Colo. Cookie Case
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DENVER - The cookie conflict isn't over yet. The spat between two teens from the southwestern Colorado town of Durango and one of their neighbors over a batch of cookies they baked last summer has garnered national publicity over the past week. It has led to donations for the girls.
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For several months now, Washington area schools have been taking a hard line on hard candy -- as well as the cookies and cream-filled confections that used to seem like harmless splurges in the course of a child's day. But many parents and health advocates wish schools would devote as much energy to...
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David Bowie has donated $10,000 to a legal defense fund for six black teens charged in an alleged attack on a white classmate in the tiny central Louisiana town of Jena
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CHICAGO -- Chicago police said a woman who hauled in more than $3,000 in cash donations for the American Diabetes Association is believed to have spent all the money on cocaine.
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FRIDLEY, Minn. - A woman accused of putting fake charity donation boxes around the Twin Cities wasn't out of jail long before being arrested again.
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By Marcia Gelbart, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 2--It was like a stocking stuffer: a single $100 Christmas Day donation to the Fattah for Mayor campaign.   Sure, 145 other contributors also opened their wallets in November and December to support U.S. Rep.
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DURHAM, NC -- Two students from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics will split $100,000 in scholarship money. The award is a prize for their cancer research.
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From wrapping paper to Girl Scout cookies, the costs add up.
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By Matt Branaugh, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.
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Hoping to stir up thirst for milk, officials installed advertisements in several San Francisco bus shelters on Monday that give off the scent of freshly baked cookies.
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Once a cupcake wasn't something to think about. It was just what your mom brought to school for your birthday. But this year, as schools across the country begin enforcing new federally mandated "wellness policies," many are banning the little treats. And parents are fighting back.
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Salvation Army officials don't know who has been dropping gold coins into their holiday kettles over the past 20 years, but they hope the mysterious donations continue.
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Ashlee Simpson and Teen People magazine have put together an auction to benefit UNICEF's relief and recovery efforts for the young victims of the Dec. 26 Asian earthquake and tsunami disaster.
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For much of the country, it's Girl Scout cookie time again. And this year, all those cookies, not just the Thin Mints and a few others, will come nearly free of harmful trans fats.
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between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve last year, The Salvation Army raised nearly $40,000 from its signature Christmas kettles at five local Target stores.
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Angry that the Salvation Army might lose nearly $200,000 in donations collected in red kettles outside Target department stores in Washington state, customers have latched onto Internet-fueled boycott campaigns, written stinging letters and vowed to take
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CLEVELAND - The packages were labeled as toys for good girls and boys and the business was called Santa's Helpers. But authorities say the packages were nothing more than a naughty ruse to cover a large-scale drug smuggling operation.