Veteran Affairs News

The daughter of a World War II veteran plans to bury her father in Florida, years after an urn filled with rocks was interred in his name at Arlington National Cemetery.

The 65-year-old Vietnam War veteran who suffered broken ribs and hurt his knee during a strong-arm robbery in south suburban Midlothian earlier this week died from his injuries.

Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.

Not long before the body of Pfc. Michael S. Pearson arrived at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, a single plane appeared.

Michael and Margaret Walker are in a better place this year but remain grateful for Operation Stand Down.

The former director of the Arizona Department of Veterans' Services was indicted Thursday, accused of enriching friends and family at taxpayer expense while cutting benefits to the veterans he served.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a Pentagon investigation of the tragic Fort Hood shooting.

A septic tank contract at Fort Drum is one of those cited in a government report on fraud, according to the Associated Press.

Officials at MacDill Air Force Base knowingly approved a $900,000 contract with a business owned by a disabled veteran, even though the work was performed by an unqualified company, a government report states.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates is putting former Army Secretary Togo West and former Navy chief Vernon Clark in charge of a broad Pentagon review of the circumstances surrounding the Fort Hood shootings.

The Dorn VA Medical Center is opening a new outpatient clinic for veterans in South Carolina's Upstate.

The Small Business Administration failed to check if companies were eligible for the no-bid contracts for veterans with service-related injuries, allowing, for example, a contracting employee at a military base in Tampa, Fla., to improperly funnel a $900,000 Air Force contract to his wife's firm.

Richard Strandlof is the first Coloradan charged under the Stolen Valor Act. Richard Glen Strandlof will be released to a halfway house pending his upcoming trial on charges that he made false claims about being a decorated military veteran.

A program intended to help disabled veterans win government business awarded at least $100 million in contracts to firms that were either ineligible or committed fraud to obtain the work, a federal review has found.

A small group of U.S. war veterans, the age difference among them as wide as 70 years, gathered earlier this month at American Legion Post 177 in Fairfax, Va., for a special event at the annual Veterans' Day Community Fair.

Staff Sgt. Ron Pedersen spent a year in Afghanistan with the Army National Guard.

A Fort Carson soldier convicted Wednesday of killing two people with an AK-47 and of wounding a soldier in two drive-by shootings last year will face a mandatory life sentence without parole.

About 200 family members and friends gathered Wednesday on a cold windy cemetery hillside in a tiny northeast Tennessee community to bury Army Spc.

President Obama's executive order expanding job opportunities for veterans in federal agencies made headlines last week.

An Army mother who refused to go to Afghanistan because she failed to get someone to care for her son wants the military to discharge her rather than enforce a policy thousands of single mothers have abided by.