The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is urging Veterans to sign up for electronic payment of their benefits, in response to an announcement made by the Department of Treasury regarding the scheduled phase out of paper check for federal benefits. The Department of Treasury had published the final regulation that will phase out paper checks [...]

A U.S. Navy officer of Filipino descent leaped to his death at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Manila on Monday, according to a report by The Associated Press. Manila aviation police chief Pedro Desuasido revealed that Lt. Cmdr. Scintar Buenviaje Mejia, 35, died of injuries to the head after jumping to his death [...]

A report by The Associated Press revealed that the New York publishing house Alfred A. Knopf has confirmed on Monday that it has struck up a book deal with Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, for his autobiography. The publication date was not yet revealed, however. Assange spoke to The Sunday Times and shared some details [...]

Technology has its ups and downs, but it certainly has the ability to bring about little miracles that we are thankful for. KTVB News’ Nishi Gupta shared one such story. Sergeant First Class Mike Lewis is a medic for the Idaho Army National Guard, and he is currently deployed to Iraq. When his deployment began [...]

In a previous post, we shared with you efforts put in by “For the Troops” to spread some holiday cheer for deployed troops. There are various non-profit organizations that have made it their mission to ensure troops are able to get some of the conveniences of home, wherever they are, and whatever the occasion may [...]

A new program from the Department of Veterans Affairs aims to help small businesses owned by service-disabled and other veterans become more competitive, according to a feature on the VA website. Eric K. Shinseki, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, said: “For VA, it’s a natural goal to award government contracts to qualified Veteran-owned small businesses… Not [...]