Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Idaho man pleads guilty to fraud

  April 8, 2009 in City on Page A5 A financial scandal hatched more than 30 years ago by a man who lied about being paralyzed ended this week with a guilty plea that could send him to prison …

• Veterans health proposal dropped

  March 19, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The Obama administration on Wednesday abandoned a controversial plan to make veterans use private insurance to pay for costly treatments of combat-related injuries. Stung by the angry reaction …

• Veterans health care may go private

  March 17, 2009 in City on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is considering making veterans use private insurance to pay for treatment of combat and service-related injuries. The plan would be an about-face on what veterans …

• Software glitches put vets at risk

  January 15, 2009 in City on Page A6 WASHINGTON – The top Republican on the House Veterans Affairs Committee demanded Wednesday that the VA explain how it allowed software glitches to put the medical care of patients at …

• Idaho man gets prison for defrauding government

  January 8, 2009 in City on Page A6 BOISE – A witness in a 2005 Idaho murder solicitation case will spend a year and a day in federal prison after being found guilty of defrauding the government of …