Mon Nov 9, 2009 4:00 AM EST
The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people in a shooting spree at Fort Hood made or accepted wire transfers with Pakistan, a country wracked by Muslim extremist violence, a Republican congressman said Friday.
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Sun Nov 8, 2009 3:37 AM EST
In retrospect, the signs of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's growing anger over the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan seem unmistakable. But even people who worried his increasingly strident views were clouding his ability to serve the U.S. military could not predict the murderous rampage of which he now stands accused.
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Sat Nov 7, 2009 5:43 PM EST
There was the classroom presentation that justified suicide bombings. Comments to colleagues about a climate of persecution faced by Muslims in the military. Conversations with a mosque leader that became incoherent.
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Sat Nov 7, 2009 2:29 PM EST
An Army psychiatrist who authorities say went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood was so conflicted over what to tell fellow soldiers about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that a local Islamic leader was deeply troubled by it, the leader said Saturday.
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Sat Nov 7, 2009 2:25 PM EST
An Army psychiatrist who authorities say went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood was so conflicted over what to tell fellow soldiers about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that a local Islamic leader was deeply troubled it, the leader said Saturday.
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Sat Nov 7, 2009 1:22 PM EST
An Army psychiatrist who authorities say went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood was so conflicted over what to tell fellow soldiers about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that a local Islamic leader said Saturday he was deeply troubled by it.
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Sat Nov 7, 2009 11:09 AM EST
The Army psychiatrist suspected of going on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood recently asked for advice on what he should tell fellow soldiers concerned about fighting Muslims in Iraq or Afghanistan, a local Muslim leader said Saturday.
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Sat Nov 7, 2009 10:16 AM EST
A Muslim leader says the Army psychiatrist suspected of going on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood asked him for advice on what he should tell soldiers who had concerns about going to fight Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:34 PM EDT
At Saint Mary the Virgin Catholic Church, the 75-year-old priest is married, members sing from an Episcopalian hymnal and parishioners kneel at the altar to receive Communion.
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Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:13 PM EDT
The police officer who used a Taser on a mentally ill man who died as a result of the two high-voltage shocks will not be disciplined and remains on patrol, the Fort Worth police chief said Friday.
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Fri Oct 2, 2009 12:03 PM EDT
A Fort Hood soldier who tried to fake his kidnapping by a Mexican drug cartel after he went AWOL was sentenced Friday to three years in prison and dishonorably discharged.
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Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:35 PM EDT
A Texas church where a gunman left seven people dead and seven wounded marked the tragedy's 10-year anniversary on Sunday with a chilling recollection of the 12-minute rampage and videotaped messages from the victims' families.
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:55 PM EDT
Texas' liquor board fired two agents and a supervisor, disciplined two other supervisors and changed several policies in the wake of a raid at a gay bar that left a customer seriously injured and led to protests, officials announced Friday.
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:02 PM EDT
Texas' liquor board fired two agents and a supervisor, disciplined two other supervisors and changed several policies in the wake of a raid at a gay bar that left a customer with a serious head injury, officials announced Friday.
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:25 PM EDT
Texas' liquor board fired two agents and a supervisor, disciplined two other supervisors and changed several policies in the wake of a raid at a gay bar that left a customer with a serious head injury, officials announced Friday.
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Fri Aug 14, 2009 5:53 PM EDT
Three decades after basking in the national spotlight as "Squeaky" the infamous Charles Manson disciple who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford, the now 60-year-old woman slipped quietly out of a federal prison Friday after being released on parole.
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Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:10 PM EDT
The Charles Manson follower convicted of trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford was released Friday from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars.
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Wed Aug 5, 2009 4:37 PM EDT
A Fort Hood soldier who refused to deploy to Afghanistan over his beliefs that the war violates international law was sentenced Wednesday to a month in jail.
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Wed Aug 5, 2009 2:57 PM EDT
A Fort Hood soldier who refused to deploy to Afghanistan over his beliefs that the war violates international law was sentenced Wednesday to a month in jail.
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Sun Jun 7, 2009 8:50 PM EDT
A blind pianist from Japan and a teenager from China won gold medals Sunday at the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, making history as the first winners from any Asian country.
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Sat May 30, 2009 6:54 PM EDT
With a dramatic bow of pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii's head, rich sounds of the piano, violins, cello and viola broke the concert hall silence as he and a string quartet played Schumann's Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44.
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Wed May 13, 2009 3:55 AM EDT
The Kimbell Art Museum will soon be the only U.S. museum to display a Michelangelo painting after acquiring his earliest known work, a rare treasure that was tucked away and doubted as authentic for more than a century.
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Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:32 PM EDT
Police in Fort Worth say a top SEC official prosecuting Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford's fraud case has been accused of assaulting an officer.
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:35 PM EDT
Pilgrim's Pride will start the procedures for selling two processing plants slated to shut down, under an agreement reached through mediation with opponents of the closures.
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Wed Apr 1, 2009 8:59 PM EDT
Constant news coverage of President Barack Obama since he took office less than three months ago is warranted considering the economic crisis facing the country, panelists at a media symposium said Wednesday.
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