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Six veterans plead guilty to Agent Orange benefits fraud
Six military veterans from Maryland pleaded guilty to fraud charges this week in a scheme to obtain federal military benefits and state tax breaks with faked documentation claiming they were exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, according to the...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Navy, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Trials
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Md. veterans official accused in benefits kickback scheme
A former high-ranking official at the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs has been accused of running a kickback scheme from his state office, allegedly fabricating military achievements and disability claims in exchange for a cut of the resulting...
Tags: Defense, Diseases and Illnesses, Trials, Rod J. Rosenstein, Diabetes
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Lansdowne High students participate in Model Congress
If only the politicians in Washington, D.C., could work together with the courtesy and efficiency of the Loch Raven Model Congress. Some 140 ninth-grade Gifted and Talented students from 14 Baltimore County public high schools, including Lansdowne High,...Tags: High Schools, U.S. Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, Teaching and Learning, Animals
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Vietnam, 50 years on
HANOI, Vietnam -- It has been 50 years since President John F. Kennedy ordered U.S. "advisers" to South Vietnam to help battle the communist North and 37 years since the end of that divisive war and the country's unification under Communism. Today,...Tags: Wars and Interventions, China, U.S. Congress, Civil Rights, Freedom of the Press
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VA releases number of survivors who collect disability benefits for veterans who die waiting
The Baltimore SunFamily members of nearly 19,500 veterans who died while they waited for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to complete a review of their disability benefits claim collected $436.9 million last year, according to information the agency provided...Tags: U.S. Congress, Veterans Affairs
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Baltimore VA office worst in nation for processing disability claims
The Baltimore office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is the slowest in the country in processing disability claims for servicemen and servicewomen — averaging about a year — and makes more mistakes than any other office. The...
Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Oakland (Chicago, Illinois), Fibromyalgia, Accounting and Auditing
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Md. congressional leadership demands answers from VA
Calling the failures at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Baltimore "inexcusable," Maryland's congressional leadership on Monday demanded the beleaguered agency develop an immediate plan to fix the local problems in processing disability claims....
Tags: Jeff Miller, Benjamin L. Cardin, John Sarbanes, Heart Disease, Eric Shinseki
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Robert F. 'Hop' Crooks, programmer
Robert F. "Hop" Crooks, a retired Social Security Administration computer programmer, died Monday of complications from a massive epileptic seizure at Marshall Medical Center in Placerville, Calif.
The longtime Oella and Catonsville resident was 65....Tags: Catonsville, Bruce Springsteen, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Software Industry, Epilepsy
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Bel Air man held on $100,000 bail in alleged knife assault
A Bel Air man, who is a retired Army veteran, was being held on $100,000 bail Tuesday after allegedly threatening his wife with a knife. David Leon Young, 59, of the 2100 block of Kalmia Road, is charged with first- and second-degree assault and...Tags: Prisons, Vietnam, Harford County, Heart Failure, Birth Defects
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Columbia music historian compiles Vietnam War songs
Nearly 40 years ago, a haunting photograph of a naked Vietnamese girl running in anguish after being severely burned in a napalm bomb attack on her village became an iconic image of the Vietnam War.
But most who have seen the Pulitzer Prize-winning...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Behavioral Conditions, Concerts, Clearwater (Pinellas, Florida), Bruce Springsteen
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A death from cancer, and a search for answers
Randy White had just buried a daughter, dead at 30 with a brain tumor. Now his other daughter had been diagnosed with growths in her abdomen.
When doctors told White in 2009 that their conditions were likely caused by something in their environment,...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Family, Water, Anthrax, Bioterrorism
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David Boschert, former delegate from Arundel, dies
David G. Boschert, who served Anne Arundel County in the Maryland House of Delegates as a Republican and was earlier on the County Council as a moderate Democrat, died of liver and pancreatic cancer Thursday evening at his Crownsville home. He was 63....Tags: Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel Community College, Science, Colleges and Universities, Veterans Affairs
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