FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — An attorney for an Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people during an attack at Fort Hood says his client will likely plead not guilty and may pursue an insanity defense at his military trial. ...more

November 23, 2009

A military magistrate has ruled that the Army psychiatrist charged in one of the worst mass shootings on a U.S. military base will be held until trial. ...more

November 21, 2009

Barack Obama just had the worst week since his beloved pastor, Jeremiah Wright, decided to expatiate on black liberation theology at the National Press Club. ...more

August 7, 2008

A Dutch survivor of an ice avalanche that killed 11 climbers atop the world's second-tallest mountain over the weekend described a desperate scramble for self-preservation, with panicked mountaineers abandoning one another in the search for a way down the steep rock face. ...more

August 5, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican John McCain's campaign on Saturday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for canceling a visit to wounded troops in Germany, contending Obama chose foreign leaders and cheering Europeans over "injured American heroes." ...more

July 26, 2008

A former Army medic made famous by a photograph that showed him carrying an injured Iraqi boy during the first week of the war has died of an apparent overdose, police said. ...more

July 7, 2008

President Bush will attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Beijing, the White House said Thursday. The announcement quashed any talk of a presidential boycott over China's violent crackdown after anti-government riots and protests in Tibet. ...more

July 4, 2008

A Miami-bound jetliner overshot a runway, raced onto a busy street and slammed into an embankment in the Honduran capital Friday, killing the pilot, two passengers and a motorist. ...more

May 31, 2008

SEBRING — WAVES, says Betsy Waddell, is a World War II acronym for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services. Waddell is a former chief petty officer, so she wasn't a volunteer. At her last assignment, she ran the military hospital billing department for the spouses of sailors. And that is what WAVES prefer to be called these days, says Waddell. Women serve in nearly every job the Navy offers, including ships. ...more

May 30, 2008

The trauma center's radio crackles an alert: A 34-year-old woman injured in an auto wreck is being brought in by helicopter. Parts of her scalp have been torn back, exposing her skull. Broken bones may be sticking out through the skin of her left leg. ...more

October 31, 2007