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Vets tap businesses for VA disability claims help, but there’s a cost

Thousands of veterans work with for-profit firms to apply for disability benefits. Veterans advocates call the practice predatory and possibly illegal.

By Leo Shane III

6 months ago

White House seeks to educate veterans on benefits, warn about scams

The announcement comes ahead of Saturday's Veterans Day celebration.

By Leo Shane III

6 months ago

Does Cape Cod offer lessons in learning to live with the Great White shark?

In 2012 a swimmer sustained moderate injuries from a white shark bite. Another swimmer was seriously injured by a shark on August 16, 2018. Then, on September 16, a 26-year-old body-boarder was killed in what is believed to be the first fatal shark attack in Massachusetts since 1936.

By Carlos G. García-Quijano, University of Rhode Island

6 years ago

This week in Congress: Summer vacation on the horizon

Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of July 15.

By Leo Shane III

6 years ago

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