May 3, 2016 VA cites progress on benefits backlog, says it's one-sixth the size of 2013 record The Department of Veterans Affairs says it has fewer than 100,000 disability claims older than four months, a "historic milestone" that is one-sixth the size of a long-term backlog that reached a record 611,000 claims in 2013.
May 3, 2016 Lester K. Metz, fought during D-Day, dead at 98 Lester K. Metz, an army veteran who took part in the D-Day invasion and later worked as a rocket powder manufacturer, died Sunday in his Salt Lake City home, his family told the Associated Press. He was 98.
May 3, 2016 Idaho residents line up outside veteran's house, protest fears of possible gun confiscation A group of residents in northern Idaho lined up outside a U.S. Navy veteran's house on Thursday to protest claims that federal officials are planning on confiscating the man's weapons.
May 3, 2016 VA to review disability status for Marine veterans affected by tainted water at Camp Lejeune The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will begin reviewing the disability status of Marines who developed cancers and other conditions due to exposure to chemicals that contaminated the water at Camp Lejeune (luh-ZHERN') for more than 30 years.
May 3, 2016 22 unclaimed veterans laid to rest in Utah The unclaimed remains of 22 military veterans who died in Utah as long ago as 1996 were laid to rest on Saturday, as a large crowd came to pay the departed soldiers a final tribute.
May 3, 2016 House Roll Call: Funding for highways, transit, veterans' health care The 385-34 roll call Wednesday by which the House passed the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015, providing money for federal highway aid and veterans' health care.
May 3, 2016 House Roll Call: Veterans Affairs Accountability Act The 256-170 roll call Wednesday by which the House passed the VA Accountability Act, making it easier to fire or demote employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
May 3, 2016 House moves ahead with bill to make it easier to fire thousands of Veterans Affairs workers The Republican-controlled House is moving forward with a bill making it easier to fire or demote hundreds of thousands of employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
May 3, 2016 Dem senator withdraws vets fertility bill, blames GOP 'attack' on women's health care A Democratic senator says she's withdrawn a bill expanding government fertility services for wounded veterans.
May 3, 2016 Negligent care at naval hospital in Florida left veteran in vegetative state, lawsuit says The wife of a veteran says negligent treatment at a naval hospital left her husband in a vegetative state, and she is suing the facility.
