Charity asks help for Haiti (The Palm Beach Post)
A South Florida charity is preparing to help victims of Hurricane Gustav in Haiti. Food for the Poor, a Coconut Creek-based charity that provides food, shelter, medical care and other services to countries in the Caribbean and South America, had a stockpile of food, antibiotics, tents, generators and other supplies already in Haiti as Gustav hit the island Tuesday. The agency asks that anyone ...

Stars to walk red carpet for charity (Daily Vidette)
VENICE, Italy (AP) - George Clooney and Brad Pitt will make two appearances at the Venice Film Festival this week. They were slated to appear Tuesday night at a fundraising event for their charity, Not On Our Watch. Then they were to return to the red carpet Wednesday when the Coen brothers film "Burn After Reading" opens the 65th edition of the festival, which runs through Sept.

Report: Pilot of fatal charity flight ignored warnings (Newsday)
A preliminary report on the crash of a charity flight that killed a local couple describes an controller's repeated attempts to warn the pilot about low altitude and eyewitness accounts of the plane's spinning nose-dive.