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In addition to the five employees killed in June in the shootings at the Annapolis Capital, the region lost a number of notable citizens in 2018. Here, we recall some of those who left a lasting mark.

Congressional lawmakers grilled senior VA officials — including the head of the Baltimore office — Monday night over allegations that two of the department's leaders plotted to open up plum jobs and then take them for themselves.

The leaders of the two largest unions for federal employees are bracing for fights in the coming months with a "very hostile" Congress over pay, benefits and job security.

The omnibus appropriations bill approved by Congress and signed last month by the president finally closed the book on federal budgeting for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, more than two months late and only after another threat of a government shutdown. Lost in most of the media coverage of this massive legislation is a very significant victory for millions of veterans that will prevent this very type of political gridlock from threatening veterans' benefits during any future budget battles or

WASHINGTON — The Maryland Veterans Affairs Health Care System is seeking help from private physicians in the Baltimore region to address a primary care backlog that has become one of the worst in the nation, federal officials said Monday.

WASHINGTON (AP) ¿ In a scathing appraisal, a review ordered by President Barack Obama of the troubled Veterans Affairs health care system concludes that medical care for veterans is beset by "significant and chronic system failures," substantially verifying problems raised by whistleblowers and internal and congressional investigators.

The beleaguered Veterans Affairs office in Baltimore excluded Maryland servicemen and servicewomen from a program designed to fast-track their disability claims, according to a senior American Legion official.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers pressed the Obama administration on Wednesday to reduce the backlog of disability claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs by improving cooperation between the agencies that have a role in the process.