Fort Hood News

Family and friends laid Christian Estrada to rest on a day as sunny as the grin the 24-year-old Iraq War veteran flashed in family photos.

Someone threatened to bomb a county courthouse near Fort Hood unless officials met the "demands" of the Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 shooting rampage on the Texas Army post, a sheriff said Wednesday.

Jury selection will start July 9th in the trial of the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage.

On September 10, 2010, the day before our enormous freedom rally at Ground Zero protesting the Ground Zero victory mega-mosque, the New York Times profiled a Muslim named Sinclair Hejazi Abdus-Salaam, who had no place to pray.

Apparently the war on terror is over. The Obama administration has set up a meeting with Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan.

Officials say the four were killed by indirect fire, likely a mortar or rocket, but they had no other details.

A Democratic congressman has released the full transcript of congressional investigators' interview with an Internal Revenue Service manager and self-described conservative Republican who said the close scrutiny... A Democratic congressman has released the full transcript of congressional investigators' interview with an Internal Revenue Service ... (more)

The trial of a US Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009 will be delayed at least into early August from July, a military judge ruled on Tuesday.

A central Kentucky man who goes by the online name KyAnonymous said Tuesday he is the target of an investigation into who hacked into an Ohio high school's computer and posted a video related the rape of a... A central Kentucky man who goes by the online name KyAnonymous said Tuesday he is the target of an investigation into who hacked into an Ohio ... (more)

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says it appears the much-criticized national electronic surveillance program foiled "dozens" of terrorist plots.

In this Sunday, June 16, 2013 photo, law enforcement officials transfer Charles Richard Jennings Jr. center, from an ambulance to a waiting police vehicle at a freeway exit off of I-84 near Tremonton, Utah.

An Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009 could learn on Tuesday whether a judge will grant him more time to prepare as he represents himself in the military trial.

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I recently had the opportunity to take my 8-year-old son, Jackson, to see the movie "42" -- the story of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in major league baseball.

Fort Hood is the Army installation in Killeen, halfway between Austin and Waco. The base opened in January 1942, serving as a training center for soldiers joining artillery and anti-tank units.

Joe Lumaya/Special to the Star Tony Lau samples salsa with his daughter, Colleen Lau, during the Military Salsa Festival at Moorpark College on Sunday.

With the growing scrutiny of government databases and the extent of domestic surveillance, new questions are being raised about a program FBI Director Robert Mueller once said could pull in emails from U.S. citizens on domestic soil "as they come in."

Israel and the United States since 9/11 have taken strikingly different approaches to protecting their citizens from acts of terror.

This undated file photo provided by the Bell County Sheriff's Department shows Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage that left 13 dead.

Their son, Sgt. James McDonald, served two tours with the Army in Iraq. On Memorial Day 2007, McDonald suffered severe brain trauma from an IED.