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  • Florida lawmakers are playing a key role in helping to reshape the Veterans Administration.WLRN.org
  • William Rollins Jr., field services director for Paralyzed Veterans of America, approves of some of the presidential committee's report on veterans' care — such as improving support for families — but says other reforms are missing.
  • The nation will remember those killed while serving their country on Memorial Day in just over a week. But a local group called Veterans Counseling...
  • Florida’s elected officials love to brag that they are “the most veteran friendly state” in the nation.Yet, for the past two years student veterans at…
  • Wal-Mart is expected to announce that it will hire every veteran who wants a job as part of a new program beginning on Memorial Day. The only requirements: that he or she left the military in the previous year and wasn't dishonorably discharged.
  • As Florida’s health care industry is growing, so too is the need for registered nurses and other medical personnel. The competition for qualified health...
  • The city's most recent homeless count showed that the veteran homeless population had declined 18 percent. But some advocates caution that veteran homelessness is an ever-changing dynamic.
  • Jimmy Petrolia will try to set two world records and raise money for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation.
  • Law enforcement officials say a laptop stolen from the home of an employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs has been recovered. The laptop contained sensitive personal information on millions of veterans and active duty service members. The FBI says there is no evidence that the information was accessed.
  • Nine U.S. table tennis players made history in 1971, becoming the first Americans to visit China in more than two decades. It was a step toward U.S.-Chinese diplomatic ties. Five members of the original team recently went back for exhibition matches.
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