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A Department of Veteran Affairs employee and Lakeville resident was charged in federal court in Boston with embezzling nearly $70,000 in VA funds.

Kindness is such a simple thing. It doesn't require much more than a thought, or an email address.

America's enemies couldn't kill Sgt. Michael Verado on the battlefield. In fact, their attempts to stop him only strengthened him and his amazing wife, Sarah.

Congressman William Keating of Massachusetts is pushing legislation that would require all doctors in the Veterans Administration system to undergo pain medication education to lessen the over-prescribing of medication for seriously injured veterans...

After one year of renovations and $2.5 million, the Providence VA Medical Center's New Bedford Community-Based Outpatient Clinic on Elm Street opened its doors to local vets during an open house event Saturday afternoon.

Veterans in the New Bedford area can look forward to better care without the travel. Officials held a ribbon cutting ceremony Monday at the new VA Outpatient Clinic on Elm Street. The renovated facility is already caring for over 3,000 vets locally...

The dispute over salaries for nurses at the New Bedford VA Medical Center has been resolved. The VA said the nurses had been overpaid for years and had threatened to cut their pay by 14%-20%, and require them to repay the over-payments...

VA Secretary Eric Shinseki has resigned in wake of the scandal at the V A. He had been under pressure to step down after problems with VA Hospital in Arizona as well as across the country. Friday morning he addressed a gathering of homeless veterans and shortly thereafter, he stepped down...