Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Congressman accuses VA of ‘noncompliance’

  April 27, 2010 in Nation/World A key House member asked Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to explain an apparent “emerging pattern” of agency noncompliance” with congressional requests for information about veteran suicide and other issues. 8

• Editorial: Finally, military lifts stigma of stress illness

  January 12, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have created nearly 1 million veterans and about 20 percent of them are being treated or have been treated for mental health conditions. But … 2

• Data show increase in suicide rate among U.S. veterans

  January 11, 2010 in Nation/World The suicide rate among 18- to 29-year-old men who’ve left the military has gone up significantly, the government said Monday. 3

• VA doctors protest ‘crisis’

  August 13, 2009 in City on Page A1 Amid a revolt by its staff psychiatrists, the Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center has begun expanding a behavioral health department strained by an increasing number of veterans seeking help. In … 4

• VA center wasn’t aware of many veteran suicides

  August 9, 2009 in City on Page A1 The number of Spokane-area veterans who killed themselves in a one-year period is far greater than the Spokane Veteran Affairs Medical Center knew at the time, a VA investigation has … 6

• Veteran’s death vexes family

  March 1, 2009 in City on Page A1 A North Idaho family blames the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for the death of a Navy veteran who killed himself last year amid a sharp increase in suicides among …

• VA withholds doctor’s record

  February 18, 2009 in City on Page A5 The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will not say whether the psychiatrist who attended to two veterans who killed themselves last year was involved in other cases resulting in suicide … 5

• VA won’t release records about Spokane psychiatrist

  February 17, 2009 in City The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will not say whether the psychiatrist who attended to two veterans who killed themselves last year was involved in other cases resulting in suicide …

• Spokane VA works to reduce suicides

  October 22, 2008 in City on Page A1 Following a marked increase in the number of veterans who killed themselves in the first half of this year, the Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center has taken steps to reduce …

• VA interviews veteran’s father

  July 25, 2008 in City on Page B3 The father of Lucas Senescall, the 26-year-old Navy veteran who killed himself hours after visiting the Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center, was questioned by VA medical inspectors Thursday. Senescall’s death …

• Lives lost at home

  July 20, 2008 in City on Page A1 A distraught 26-year-old Navy veteran who had a history of mental illness hanged himself within three hours of seeking help at Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The July 7 death …