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TOKYO (Reuters) - Marigolds for grief, purple dahlias for dignity, periwinkle for tender reflections. Basil for hate.

The meanings attached to each flower underpin the life of Victoria Jones, the prickly and suspicious heroine of Vanessa Diffenbaugh's "The Language of Flowers," who uses blooms and bouquets to say what she cannot force herself to speak out loud.

A veteran of ...

(Reuters) - The state of California should immediately investigate why more than 1,000 sex offenders have the same addresses as licensed foster homes and facilities housing children, a new report by the state auditor said.

The findings posted on the state auditor website on Thursday matched up a California sex offender database with the Department of Social Service's list ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actress Jennifer Morrison, best known for her portrayal of Dr. Allison Cameron on "House M.D.," returns to television this Sunday, putting a new twist on the idea of a fairy tale life in "Once Upon a Time."

Set in the small New England town of "Storybrooke," the drama alternates between a land of make-believe, full of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City police were searching on Wednesday for a mother suspected of abducting her eight children, all of whom had been placed in foster care, during a supervised visit.

The seven boys and one girl, who range in age from 11 months to 11 years old, were taken during a monitored group visit on Monday at ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill (Reuters) - Illinois can sever ties to Catholic charities that provide foster and adoption services for the state if the groups discriminate against unmarried and gay couples when placing children, a judge ruled on Thursday.

Catholic charity groups had sued in June to prevent Illinois from canceling their contracts to provide child services shortly after a state law took ...

Thomas Morton, head of Clark County's Family Services Department, is stepping down after a five-year tenure in a difficult job.Morton took over a department marked by overcrowding at the county's shelter, Child Haven, and a rash of child deaths in the foster care system. The ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Daphna Ziman is on a mission to help foster children, and she's picked a novel way to do it -- novel, being the key word.

Ziman, a Los Angeles-based philanthropist and activist for kids placed in foster care, has written a fictional novel, "The Gray Zone," whose protagonist was orphaned as a child.

Now, that kid is ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In 1998 film "The Horse Whisperer," Robert Redford played a man with a unique ability to train horses that seemed out of control. Few people knew that the character, Tom Booker, was modeled after a real man, Buck Brannaman, a cowboy who escaped an abusive childhood to become a horse trainer of unusual abilities.

A new film ...

Rusty Roner spends much of his time driving across the Las Vegas Valley, taking his four foster children, each with his or her own medical needs, to various doctor appointments. There's a pediatrician in Summerlin, a dentist in Henderson and a speech therapist with offices east of Boulder Highway.

Now Roner, who lives in Southern Highlands, will have one ...

Children taken from homes because of abuse or neglect are separated from their siblings in 20 to 30 percent of all cases in Clark County. This is a little known but deeply traumatic problem for foster children, who are already gasping for air in an unforgiving world.

So let us praise and support Child Focus, a local nonprofit organization founded ...