Military officials, colleagues and neighbors are lauding Sgt. Kimberly Munley, who ran to the scene of the Fort Hood shooting and confronted the gunman.

More than two years after pledges to boost mental-health care, the promises have fallen short at U.S. military hospitals, say psychiatrists, Army officials, and wounded soldiers and their kin.

President Barack Obama said that the training designed to keep U.S. forces safe abroad prevented further deaths and ended a shooting rampage at Fort Hood.

Army Chief of Staff George Casey asks Army leaders across the country to review force protection measures after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, left 13 people dead.

As word spread that a gunman had opened fire at Fort Hood leaving a trail of carnage, a chilling realization swept across the U.S. Muslim community: He has an Islamic name.

A former employee accused of fatally shooting one person and wounding five others at an Orlando engineering firm thought it had blocked his efforts to obtain unemployment benefits, police said Friday.

Investigators cracked a youthful burglary ring that preyed on Hollywood's rich and famous, often walking into their unlocked homes to make off with cash, jewels and family heirlooms, authorities said.

Neighbors of the Cleveland serial killing suspect say he never gave people a reason to wonder what he was really doing behind closed doors.

A New Jersey jury rejects a Florida man's claims that he was too fat to kill his former son-in-law and convicts him of murder.

Noor Faleh Almaleki just wanted to be a normal American woman. But prosecutors say her Iraqi father used his Jeep to run her down because she failed to live by his traditional values.

A Volkswagen van stolen 35 years ago in Washington state has been found in a shipping container at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport.

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