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UPDATE 9/26/19 4:30 PM EST: Valeria Smith pleaded guilty Thursday to being an accessory after the fact in the stabbing death of her stepmother Jacquelyn Smith. Valeria and her father, Keith Smith, initially blamed her death last December on a panhandler. Sentencing for Valeria is scheduled for January 29, 2020. This is a developing story. […]

CHICAGO, Il. — A homeless man in Chicago named Curtis Jackson has given  thousands of dollars he earns panhandling to a struggling single-mother who lives out of a hotel room with her 10-year-old son. Fox Chicago News reports: Sandy’s Good Samaritan is Curtis Jackson, who’s been homeless since 2004. He pays for Sandy’s hotel room […]