Tag: Veterans

VA executives netted $2 million by abusing the relocation program, an inspector general report found.Â (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

VA procurement officers regularly falsify stats to cover up contract delays

Luke Rosiak · January 20, 2015 10:00 am

This photo from Saturday, May 17, 2014 shows the Department of Veterans Affairs in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

VA officials finally transfer physician after five years of over-prescription complaints

Luke Rosiak · January 16, 2015 2:55 pm

Doctors at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Wisconsin dope up veterans with excessive amounts of painkillers. (iStock Photo)

Report: Wisconsin VA hospital turns patients into ‘zombies’ with opiates

Luke Rosiak · January 9, 2015 5:04 pm

Phoenix NBC Station: ‘Obama Snubs Veterans’

Michael Warren · January 9, 2015 1:05 pm

This April 28, 2014 file photo shows the Phoenix VA Health Care Center in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Obama slammed for failing to visit Phoenix Veterans Affairs

Susan Crabtree · January 9, 2015 12:44 am

Obama Motorcade Drives Past Scandal-Ridden Phoenix VA Hospital

Michael Warren · January 8, 2015 5:44 pm

"If you reflect on the anecdotes of anyone who has faced death and lived to tell you about it, there is almost a universal response," a psychiatrist told Greenblatt. (iStock Photo)

What is courage?

Noemie Emery · December 30, 2014 2:35 pm

In this Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013 photo, homeless Korean War veteran Thomas Moore, 79, adjusts his hat while wrapped in a blanket on a sidewalk in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

This holiday season, consider veterans in need

Mark Dellonte · December 23, 2014 10:00 am

Pedestrians walk past the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, May 10, 2013. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty images)

VA praised disgraced contract official who went on to top Treasury job

Luke Rosiak · December 18, 2014 10:00 am

Depressed veterans received inadequate treatment and suicide prevention help from Veterans Affairs clinics, according to a government watchdog. (iStock)

Veterans with depression not monitored properly

Ethan Barton · December 15, 2014 6:47 pm

U.S. troops listen to U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speak at Baghdad International Airport, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014.Â

Obama: ‘Give thanks to our men and women in uniform’

Justin Green · December 13, 2014 1:12 pm

The exterior of the Veterans Affairs Hospital is seen November 10, 2003 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

With VA construction more than $1b over budget, contractor refuses to work

Luke Rosiak · December 10, 2014 10:17 pm