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Lawmakers called for changes at the Atlanta VA Medical Center last week after learning about a fourth patient suicide that occurred last fall at the hospital on Clairmont Road.

A Henry County family said the Atlanta Veterans Medical Center sent them confidential medical records of other patients and even the wrong prescription for their father.

Rep. Jeff Miller's measure would ban senior executives in the Department of Veterans Affairs from receiving performance bonuses for the next five years.

Senate Democrats on Wednesday accused Republicans of invoking an obscure procedural rule to postpone committee action on President Obama's nominee for labor secretary.

A House panel voted Wednesday to place a five-year moratorium on bonuses to senior executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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There has been a disturbing increase in America's suicide rate, and our job-scarce economy may be one of the reasons why.

After five years and an estimated $1 billion spent trying to build a single integrated electronic health record system with the Department of Veterans Affairs, defense health officials have been taken off the project, sources confirm.

A House committee chairman recently renewed his criticism of the bonuses paid to senior executives at the Veterans Affairs Department and called on the VA to recoup a nearly $63,000 bonus given to an official who oversaw a Pittsburgh hospital where an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease killed five veterans.

Channel 2 Action News has obtained a copy of a confidential report exposing pages worth of new problems uncovered by auditors at the Atlanta VA Medical Center.

A House committee chairman renewed his criticism Thursday of the bonuses paid to senior executives at the Veterans Affairs Department and called on the VA to recoup a nearly $63,000 bonus given to an official who oversaw a Pittsburgh hospital where an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease killed five veterans.

After five years and an estimated $1 billion spent trying to build a single integrated electronic health record system with the Department of Veterans Affairs, defense health officials have been taken off the project, sources confirm.

Senior executives of the Veterans Benefits Administration will not receive 2012 performance bonuses and the funds will be invested to accelerate elimination of the disability claims backlog, according to the Veterans Affairs Department.

Washington D.C. - Even flood-causing April rains in west Michigan and heavy snow in the Upper Peninsula won't be enough to overcome record-low water levels in lakes Michigan and Huron that have led to emergency dredging and plenty of worry.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is withholding bonuses for senior officials who oversee disability claims, citing a failure to meet performance goals for reducing a sizable backlog in claims processing.

More than two-thirds of the U.S. Senate sent a letter to President Obama Monday urging his "direct and public involvement" to end the Veterans Affairs Department's disability claims backlog.

The Department of Veterans Affairs handed out millions of dollars in bonuses to top officials over five years, even as the number of veterans facing long waits for disability benefits ballooned.

Alexander Iodice's VA compensation claim, filed in January 2012, has sat in limbo as he waited in a homeless shelter.

The July Pensacola Beach Air Show will give this community, and Blue Angels fans everywhere, a chance to show the nation how much the Navy flight demonstration means to us.

The Department of Veterans Affairs handed out millions of dollars in bonuses to top officials over five years, even as the number of veterans facing long waits for disability benefits ballooned.