Pa. widow sues US over Iraq vet-husband's suicide (click here)
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The widow of a 23-year-old Iraq war veteran from Pennsylvania is suing the U.S. government over her husband's suicide.
Tiera Woodward blames the Veterans Administration for failing to provide her husband, Donald, with adequate mental-health care, despite earlier two suicide attempts. He killed himself in March 2006 after seeking help for depression at the VA Medical Center in Lebanon, a town about 25 miles east of Harrisburg.
The federal lawsuit, filed Monday, says that Woodward served in combat in Iraq from March to August of 2003.
A VA spokeswoman in Washington did not return a message Tuesday.
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Iraq war veteran's appeal denied (click here)
Posted by Brendean Kirby, Staff Reporter
October 07, 2008 6:35 AM
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear the appeal of an Iraq war veteran's prison sentence, a five-year term handed down in Mobile by a federal judge who later said he made a mistake.
The case now will return to Mobile, where U.S. District Judge William Steele is expected to carry out the sentencing order given by an Atlanta appeals court.
Patrick Lett, a former Army sergeant who now lives in Pascagoula, admitted to selling crack cocaine in Monroe County for a short while after his service in Iraq. His story gained national attention....
