The Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild on July 26 hosted its annual Front Page and Guild Service awards, "which recognize and honor our hard working union activists and journalists." A comprehensive Baltimore Sun series on problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs – which ran months before the rest of the national media even discovered the story – won the Grand Prize for writing and reporting. Sun reporter Yvonne Wenger's “VA Falls Short Of Helping Vets” series also took the Guild's Morton Mintz Award for Public Service Reporting. Click here for a complete report on all the winners. photo courtesy Baltimore Sun