Fort Hood (military base)

WACO, Texas (AP) — A federal jury has started deliberating in the trial of a Muslim soldier accused of planning to bomb a Texas restaurant filled with Fort Hood troops. Army Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo faces up to life in prison if convicted of...

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Army says a 49-year-old brigadier general has died in Afghanistan. A statement posted on the Fort Hood website says Brig. Gen. Terence Hildner died Friday in Kabul of apparent natural causes. Hildner has...

BRISTOL – Two local businesses are making sure the troops have a tree for Christmas. On Friday, Eby's Evergreens cut down a 50 foot tree to send to Fort Hood, Texas.  It is the third year Eby's has sent a tree to Ft. Hood, but this year...

A bipartisan group of women serving on the Senate and House Armed Services committees, including Indiana's 2nd District Rep. Jackie Walorski, is to be congratulated for exercising historic clout to battle sexual assault in the U.S. armed services....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top general in the U.S. Armed Forces warned of a crisis of confidence in the growing ranks of women soldiers due to a rash of sexual assault cases that has prompted lawmakers to act. The warning by Army General Martin Dempsey...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Army sergeant who worked as a sexual assault prevention coordinator at Fort Hood, Texas, has been accused of sex crimes, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, the second man in the military's anti-sexual assault effort to be...

* Lawmakers eye legislation to help stem jump in assaults * Hagel open to 'all options' to deal with issue, spokesman says * Defense chief once backed keeping sex crimes within military system By David Alexander and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, May 15...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A rash of scandals discrediting the U.S. military's efforts to stamp out sexual assault is putting unprecedented pressure on Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to consider options that once appeared off limits to address sex crimes in...

WASHINGTON (AP) - More details are emerging about the allegations against an Army sergeant first class at Fort Hood in Texas. It's the second time this month that a member of the armed forces who'd been assigned to help prevent sexual assaults in the...

HOUSTON--A local paramedic who responded to the massive fertilizer plant fire last month in West, Texas, has been arrested for allegedly possessing a destructive device. Bryce Reed, 31, was arrested late Thursday by officials from the Bureau of Alcohol,...

HOUSTON -- A military judge ruled Thursday that relatives of accused Ft. Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan can be compelled to testify, potentially facing contempt charges if they refuse. Several relatives of Hasan, 42, have said they will not...

I have been a Cubs fan since 1948, so I have seen some poor baseball. However, it is time to release Marmol for the Cubs' good and also for his own good. Bill A., Newburgh, Ind.   I don’t really see that happening, at least not until they exhaust...