PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — It’s not easy to find military veterans in undergraduate programs at most Ivy League schools. Harvard has only three in its undergrad liberal arts and sciences school. Princeton, just one. Students from the eight Ivies hope to change those kinds of numbers. They see a chance for institutions to diversify and [...]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Back-to-back attacks on police in Texas and Louisiana by former military men have touched a nerve among veterans who traditionally share a close bond with law enforcement. Veterans and active-duty troops started posting messages on social media almost immediately after the news broke last weekend that a masked ex-Marine had ambushed [...]
Veterans seeking a new career path have an opportunity next week to investigate employment in the electrical trades. The Columbus/Central Ohio Building & Construction Trades Council is partnering with the Electrical Trades Center, IBEW Local Union 683, in Grandview Heights from 3 to 7 p.m. July 25 to present a Veterans Job Fair. According to [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Defenders of a former Army sergeant say he truly believed he was fighting the Taliban bomber who blew off his friend’s limbs when he emptied 24 rounds from his 9mm handgun at police and firefighters who were responding to a fire in his apartment. Psychologists testified that Joshua Eisenhauer returned from [...]
A Columbus Starbucks store will be the location of a new legal clinic offering free advice to military veterans. Starbucks has partnered with the Ohio Military Veterans Legal Assistance Project to offer free, noncriminal, legal advice at a pop-up clinic at the Henderson Road Starbucks location. Coined the “Veterans Second Monday Legal Clinic,” it will [...]