PACT Act providing health care to burn pit victims caps decades of denied benefits for veterans

President Joe Biden on Aug. 10, 2022, signed into law legislation that will require the Veterans Administration to provide health services to soldiers suffering from more than 20 diseases associated with burn pits, including several forms of cancer and lung disease.

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Kiowa County Hospital District meeting minutes - June 28, 2022

RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

BOARD MEETING June 28, 2022

The Kiowa County Hospital District Board met in regular session on June 28, 2022, at 6:32 p.m. at Cobblestone Inn Meeting Room. 

District Board members present were Pam Cole, Doug Uhland, Mary Eikner, Karl Eikenberg, and Matt Prince. 

Others present: Shannon Dixon, Jeanette Filpi, Rachel Bletzacker, Donald Oswald, Jeni Black, Raina Lucero, Morgan King, Chris King, Abby Huff, and Beth Spady. 

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Stabbing death in La Junta under investigation

The La Junta Police Department, with assistance from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, continues to investigate a stabbing that left one man dead.

Last Friday, around 6:30 a.m., the La Junta Police Department received a 911 call about a man lying in the street at the intersection of 9th Street and Santa Fe Avenue. The victim was transported to the Arkansas Regional Valley Medical Center in La Junta where he later died.

The Otero County Coroner notified next of kin and identified the victim as Charles Shane Cheatham, 47, of La Junta.

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