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VA awards more than $51 million in grants to state Veterans cemeteries
This month, VA’s National Cemetery Administration awarded $51.3 million in grants to Arizona, Arkansas, Nebraska, New York, Louisiana, Texas, and Virginia for the establishment, expansion, and improvement of state Veterans cemeteries. These grants will help these states deliver timely and accessible burial and memorial services to Veterans.
The Health Divide: Inequities affect COVID booster effort, Medicaid enrollees, and women with cancer
With case rates already ticking up this fall, people most at risk from the coronavirus and its complications — including people of color and the elderly — may not receive the latest boosters, some epidemiologists fear.
VA expands maternity care coordination for Veterans
Starting Oct. 1, Veterans will have access to maternity care coordinators from the beginning of their pregnancy to 12 months post-partum — an expansion from the previous end-date of 8 weeks post-partum.
Fatal Traffic Collision
On October 1, 2023, at 3:42 a.m., deputies assigned to the Riverside Sheriff’s Lake Elsinore Station responded to a major injury traffic collision on 3rd Street and Diana Lane in the city of Lake Elsinore.
Homicide
On Friday, September 29, 2023, at 6:09 p.m., deputies assigned to the Perris Sheriff’s Station were dispatched to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon in the 18000 block of Alexander Street, in an unincorporated area of Perris known as Mead Valley.
