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Family settles with US in Marine suicide

By Jonathan Saltzman
Globe Staff / January 16, 2009

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The US government has agreed to pay $350,000 to settle a federal claim by a Belchertown family who blamed Northampton VA Medical Center for the suicide of their son, an Iraq war veteran who hanged himself after he allegedly was denied mental healthcare. (Full article: 724 words)

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