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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
FORT HOOD, Texas — An Army psychiatrist suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood cleaned out his apartment and left a phone message saying goodbye to a friend in the days before the rampage that left 13 people dead, neighbors said Fr ...
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Published Saturday, November 07, 2009
FORT HOOD -- As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship -- common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier. Instea ...
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Published Saturday, November 07, 2009
CARLSBAD, N.M. -- The bright yellow signs on U.S. 285 are the first indication that things aren't right in Carlsbad."US 285 south subject to sinkhole 1,000 feet ahead," motorists are warned.But there is little other evidence that a giant cavern sits ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
KILLEEN, Texas -- A civilian police officer is being praised for taking down a man suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood when she shot him in the torso.Police officials say after arriving at the scene of Thursday's gunfire, Sgt. K ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
WASHINGTON -- He was by turns caring and contentious, a man quick to say "I am blessed" in casual greeting yet one who seemed to stew in discontent that he could not always keep to himself.Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, suspect in the assault t ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
KILLEEN, Texas -- An apartment complex manager says the man accused of opening fire at Fort Hood, Texas recently had a religious bumper sticker torn off his car.The manager, John Thompson, says a fellow soldier allegedly keyed Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan' ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. -- The stepmother of the police officer who shot an Army psychiatrist suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers said Friday the woman's heroics are not surprising.Wanda Barbour told The Star-News of Wilmington that she knew Sg ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has declared a moment of silence for U.S. military forces worldwide as a show of respect for the Fort Hood victims.The moment of silence is planned for 2:34 p.m. EST Friday -- exactly 24 hours after the ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The Air Force Academy will hold a moment of silence in honor of the shooting victims at Fort Hood before Saturday's Army-Air Force football game.Academy spokesman Troy Garnhart says the observance will also honor soldiers f ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
Associated PressBOLINGBROOK, Ill. -- A yellow ribbon is tied to a porch light. Red, white and blue bunting hangs from the wooden porch. And a sticker stamped with American flags on the front door reads, "United we stand."Inside the suburban Chicago h ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
Associated PressLITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe is ordering all U.S. and Arkansas flags to be flown at half-staff to honor those killed and wounded at Fort Hood, Texas.The flags are to be lowered until sunset Friday.Authorities say a mi ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
FORT HOOD, Texas -- A military official says one more person has died after being injured during a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.Post spokesman Tyler Broadway said early Friday that the toll now stands at 13 dead and 30 wounded. Late Thursda ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
FORT HOOD, Texas -- Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before opening fire, the base commander said Friday.Lt. Gen. Robert Cone said officials had not yet ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
WASHINGTON -- His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients.There ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
FORT HOOD, Texas -- Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas.T ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The base commander at Fort Hood says survivors of the shooting rampage have told him that the Army psychiatrist suspected in the violence carried out his gunfire in "a very calm and measured approach."Lt. Gen. Robert Cone said in a nati ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The Army psychiatrist suspected of carrying out a shooting rampage at Fort Hood had come to the attention of authorities six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats, law enforcement offi ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
ELDORADO -- The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following last year's raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had a so-called "spiritual marriag ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
FORT HOOD -- A military mental health doctor facing deployment overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post on Thursday, setting off on a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded, Army officials said.The gunman, first said to have been ki ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The Army psychiatrist suspected of carrying a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, had come to the attention of authorities six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats, law enforcement ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is calling a mass shooting at a Texas Army base a "horrific outburst of violence."He says he doesn't yet know all the details but promised the government would get "answers to every single question."The commander ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has been briefed about reports of a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas.White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the president is being kept updated as details about the shooting emerge.Gibbs said he told Obama abou ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
UPDATE: A U.S. Army spokesman says the Fort Hood shootings suspect is alive and was not killed by authorities responding to the attack.Lt. Gen. Bob Cone also says the death toll from the attack remains 12 after another victim died.Authorities said im ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
DALLAS -- Two community college students who favor carrying concealed weapons are challenging their school's restrictions on campus protests.Clayton Smith and John Schwertz Jr. announced Thursday that they have filed a federal lawsuit in Dallas again ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
DALLAS -- The U.S. Education Department confirmed Thursday that it has fined Tarleton State University $137,500 for failing to accurately report campus crime statistics.University spokeswoman Liza Benedict says Tarleton State would appeal the fine.Fe ...
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