Terry Bradburn, a 64-year-old widow, was No. 176 in line at Liberty Ministries Christian Fellowship's food pantry in Sacramento, Calif., on a recent Thursday, waiting for her allotment of salad mix, fresh pineapple, dried and canned beans, bagels and coffee cake.

If this morning you passed up oatmeal for a chocolate-chip muffin the size of a softball, relax. You weren’t blowing your diet. You were eating like a “hot chick.” Wait a minute. Hot chicks eat?

As food banks in the East Valley experience shortages, businesses and organizations in the community are stepping up to help fill the shelves. In Gilbert, some much-needed help is coming from Farm Bureau Financial Services Cactus Agency.

You can help nourish elderly and disabled residents in Chandler and Gilbert by serving as a volunteer for the Chandler Christian Community Center’s meal delivery and food box referral program.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation awarded a $25,000 grant to the United Food Bank to aid in its work of feeding the hungry in Arizona.

As the U.S. economy emerged from a deep recession more than two years ago, Faye Taylor found herself living in Chandler without a job, riding her bike to Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank on Arizona Avenue each month to pick up two large bags of groceries.

WASHINGTON – One in three Hispanic households with children is never sure if it will have enough food for all members of the family, according to a recent report.

Mesa's United Food Bank is making it easy to donate this Thanksgiving with a drive-through turkey drop.

ROME (AP) — The global financial meltdown has pushed the ranks of the world's hungry to a record 1 billion, a grim milestone that poses a threat to peace and security, U.N. food officials said Friday.

I am not going to even try to pass myself off as an art expert. For me, the highest expression of art begins and ends with “Dogs Playing Poker.’’

In the same way that loving care helps babies’ brains to grow strong and smart, the food and drink that parents provide shape their child’s emotional and physical health, behavior and intelligence.

Why in America do we defend the right to insulting speech that would be prosecuted in other countries? Why do women in many Muslim countries tolerate being treated as legal inferiors? Why do Asian-American school-children vastly outperform other minorities academically?

NEW YORK  - Robert Fellman can see it on his employees’ faces: the fear, stress and discomfort that come from a difficult, even scary economic climate.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Roadside bombs killed five NATO soldiers and a civilian in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, while a coalition of aid groups warned that violence is spreading to once-stable regions and forcing them to scale back humanitarian work.

There are a lot of people going to a lot of mental effort to make it make sense — a water wonderland in Mesa. I freely admit that I’m one of them.

Angel gave up the material comforts of a middle-class lifestyle to provide her children with something for Christmas she has never been able to give them before: Safety, security and hopefully, happiness.

Poverty is not a choice. Do you think anyone woke up this morning and decided today's a good day to be poor? And yet, every day, poverty becomes reality for far too many American families through no fault of their own. Why?

Poverty is not a choice. Do you think anyone woke up this morning and decided today's a good day to be poor? And yet, every day, poverty becomes reality for far too many American families through no fault of their own. Why?

Poverty is not a choice.

It's easy to see where Gilbert Mayor Steve Berman's interest lies, and it certainly isn't with town employees. Over the course of the past 18 months, inflation has ballooned the cost of living for us all. Gasoline prices are up 35 percent, food is 11 percent higher, and the expense of a college education has outpaced the financial abilities of middle-class parents.

My boyfriend wants to marry me. I love him, but settling down with one person seriously concerns me. The only times I ever feel like getting married are fleeting moments when I feel insecure. I love serial monogamy.

Liz Dalton’s 2-year-old Maltese pups live a grand life.

You probably don't know the director Lone Scherfig. Her name wasn't even in the credits of her first box-office success in the United States. Her second big hit here was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Screenplay, but she wasn't nominated.

"Bridesmaids" takes the typically clichéd wedding movie genre and completely upends it and reinvents it into something surprisingly daring and alive.