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Ramos, who also served briefly in the military, couldn't reconcile that her friend was killed in this country just after leaving a war zone.

A chaplain exhorted hundreds of mourners gathered at a candlelight vigil to not give up hope as Fort Hood and its surrounding community looked to each other for comfort after an Army psychiatrist allegedly went on a deadly shooting spree at the military base.

The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the military about a year ago, a newlywed who had served in Iraq and a woman who had vowed to take on Osama bin Laden after the Sept.

Nov. 6 - One day after what's being called the biggest shooting rampage ever on a U.S. military base -- investigators are searching for clues.

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.

Officials searched Friday for a gunman who opened fire in a downtown office building where he used to work.

The top commander at Fort Hood is crediting a civilian police officer for stopping the shooting rampage that killed 13 people at the Texas post.

A military official says one more person has died after being injured during a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.

Here is a glance at some of the worst U.S. mass shootings in recent years: Nov. 5, 2009: The Army says 12 people were killed and 31 wounded in a shooting rampage at its Fort Hood base in Texas.

Military officials say the suspected shooter at Fort Hood was a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for six years before being transferred to the Texas base in July.

The U.S. Army says 12 people were killed and 31 wounded in a pair of shootings at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.

A panel at the University of Michigan Law School is probing the future of U.S. security as the clock ticks down for the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Investigators are trying to determine whether 100 pounds of military-grade explosives found at the home of an Army Special Forces soldier were taken from Fort Campbell.

An Army veteran who authorities say threatened to go on a shooting rampage at a Veterans Affairs hospital in southern Illinois has been indicted on a gun charge.

A gang of gunmen killed an off-duty U.S. airman and five other people early Wednesday at a bar in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said.

Using an unconventional approach that they designed, University of Pittsburgh drug discoverers and their collaborators at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have identified compounds that hold promise for treating leishmaniasis, a parasitic infection that many consider one of the world's most overlooked diseases.

Gov. Deval Patrick is making a two-day trip to Washington focused on state economic development and health care issues.

Lawyer and retired Air Force Capt. Bill Owens won the special election Tuesday in northern New York in which the Republican candidate withdrew over the weekend under pressure from the party's right wing and GOP heavyweights endorsed the Conservative Party nominee.

Picture a military made up of psychically gifted soldiers who can walk through walls, stare animals to death and whose primary weapons are subliminal music, disarming hugs and symbols of peace .

It is possible that the creation of an all-professional American army was the most dangerous decision ever taken by Congress.