She was a single mom living in poverty, looking for childcare for her children. She was under-educated, unemployed and unfulfilled. But Nataline Purdy was a woman full of potential and promise and ...

A book detailing poverty in Oklahoma -- and published more than six years ago -- is still an eerily accurate portrait of the state's economic condition, a consultant for the Oklahoma Institute for ...

A youngster surviving on flavoured milk and noodle broth was hospitalised with malnutrition, which caused a heart condition and led to all her teeth having to be removed. The shocking tale is just one ...