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A 57-year-old man and a woman were hospitalized Monday after a two-car accident.

Staff Reports A fire collapsed the roof of a Harker Heights restaurant Sunday night and caused an estimated $150,000 in damages.

By Mason W. Canales Killeen Daily Herald The Salvation Army and Faith Temple Church put nearly 300 Thanksgiving meals in the hands of the hungry Thursday with help from other churches like First United Methodist Church and volunteers.

By Victor O'Brien Killeen Daily Herald Fort Hood officials released new details Tuesday about a 20-year-old soldier Killeen police say was stabbed to death over the weekend by a 23-year-old soldier.

FBI agents in blue gloves recently converged on a single-story brick mosque on the rural outskirts of town here and pillaged through the giant green dumpster outside in search of evidence.

By Alicia Lacy Killeen Daily Herald He did it because of Antigone. Marshall Lee, 40, was on the verge of taking his own life, but 6-year-old Antigone, the basset hound he rescued, stopped him from making the decision to go through with it.

By Victor O'Brien Killeen Daily Herald Fort Hood officials released details Wednesday about a 22-year-old soldier killed at his Killeen apartment Monday.

Police vehicles are parked in front of the headquarters building at Fort Hood where at another location on base U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on a shooting rampage on November 6, 2009 in Killeen, Texas.

By Victor O'Brien Killeen Daily Herald A 23-year-old Fort Hood soldier allegedly stabbed and killed another soldier at a late-night party Sunday.

Killeen police say a Fort Hood soldier died after being shot while at an apartment and investigators want to know who opened fire.

By Jade Ortego Killeen Daily Herald BELTON - The Bell County Commissioners Court on Monday approved resolutions of appreciation to state Sen.

By Jade Ortego Killeen Daily Herald BELTON - A Killeen woman pleaded guilty Monday to one count of misappropriation of funds and six counts of credit or debit card abuse for embezzling more than $90,000 from St.

The operations of Fire Station No. 5, located on Jasper Drive, have been temporarily relocated to the former Fire Station No.

Donnie Kenneth Stevens Jr., whom authorities identified as a Fort Hood soldier, was held Monday on a $1 million bond, charged with murder in a deadly stabbing at a party early Sunday morning in Killeen.

By Don Bolding Killeen Daily Herald More than 100 children and parents Sunday afternoon watched Central Texas College's "naked eye astronomer" Warren L. Hart use the Mayborn Planetarium's ceiling to illustrate the meaning of the children's book "Night Catch" and then broke into small groups in the planetarium building's classrooms to discuss family ...

Renee Townzen encouraged her second-grade students at Ethridge Elementary in The Colony to send letters and drawings to Clear Creek Elementary School, near Fort Hood in Killeen.

By Hailey Persinger Killeen Daily Herald Though the Texas Department of Transportation is still in the planning stages of its U.S. Highway 190 expansion project, city officials, residents and business owners are already preparing for the $120 million change to Killeen's main traffic artery.

Three teenagers are behind bars, two facing murder charges after authorities found the body of a missing 16-year-old early Thursday morning.

KILLEEN, Texas a ' Killeen police detained three teens over the slaying of a 16-year-old boy who had been missing more than a week.

By Hailey Persinger Killeen Daily Herald Years after his service during the Vietnam War, Don Kennedy Jr.

Three teenage males have been arrested in relation to the murder of a missing teenage boy from Killeen .

The Pentagon said Thursday it will scour its procedures for identifying volatile soldiers hidden in the ranks following the Fort Hood shooting rampage and lapses that might allow others to slip through bureaucratic cracks.

By Victor O'Brien Killeen Daily Herald The dogs and cats of the Second Chance Animal Shelter will have a new home in a familiar place when they return to the shelter.

Three teens have been charged in the death of a 16-year-old Killeen boy whose body was found early Thursday.

From staff reports A Killeen officer was hit by a car while responding to an accident Wednesday.

Seventeen students were taken to the hospital after their school bus was involved in an accident Thursday morning near the intersection of 12th Street and Primrose.

By Hailey Persinger Killeen Daily Herald Just 24 hours after a gunman opened fire Nov.

By Hailey Persinger Killeen Daily Herald Discussions with residents have ended and Killeen's comprehensive plan is on track to be completed by June, Gary Mitchell, vice president of Kendig Keast, told City Council members Tuesday.

The Killeen Police Department charged 17-year-old Robert John Zenhye for bringing a gun to school.

Authorities have been examining whether Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan wired money to Pakistan in recent months, an action that one senior lawmaker said would raise serious questions about Hasan's possible connections to militant Islamic groups.

By Hailey Persinger Killeen Daily Herald Killeen City Council members are slated to return today to a discussion regarding potential changes in the city's feral cat ordinance.

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From staff reports A Round Rock woman was killed and three people were injured in a two-vehicle collision early Sunday in the 11000 block of Fort Hood Street, Killeen police said.

As a local couple watched live TV news coverage of the Nov. 5 shooting at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, they were still trying to process the news they received moments before in a telephone call.

The signs pointing to Nidal Malik Hasan's suspected extremism might have been there for years before the fatal Fort Hood shootings, but most people around him in Killeen never suspected a thing.

By Amanda Kim Stairrett Killeen Daily Herald Spc. Logan Burnette was sitting in the back row of 30 seats Nov.

By Don Bolding Killeen Daily Herald It was the best of times and the worst of times to open a do-it-yourself dog washing business, but the month-old Shangri-Paw LLC in Harker Heights is off to a good start.

A Round Rock woman died in an accident just before 3 a.m. Sunday on the 11000 block of south Highway 195.

By Victor O'Brien Killeen Daily Herald Two masked men robbed an ExtraCo Bank and made their getaway in a gold Cadillac Friday.

Just shy of a week after 13 people lost their lives at Fort Hood, this Veteran's Day is weighing a little more heavily on the hearts of many in this community.

The Army psychiatrist in the Fort Hood massacre was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder Thursday as he lay in a hospital bed and President Barack Obama ordered a review to determine if the government fumbled warning signs of the shooter's contacts with a radical Islamic cleric.

Posted By Beau7890 4 hours, 36 minutes ago in Political Opinion > As their Fort Hood rhetoric made clear, McChrystal's most vehement partisans don't trust American Muslims, let alone those of the Taliban, no matter how earnestly the general may argue that they can be won over by our troops' friendliness .

By Victor O'Brien Killeen Daily Herald More often than not, people call the police for help and not the other way around.

Killeen police are looking for a 9-year-old boy who was reported missing from his home at 4608 Sydney Harbour Court just after 8:30 a.m. this morning, a Killeen police spokeswoman said.

By Rebecca LaFlure Killeen Daily Herald One by one, a veteran set a white candle in front of Fort Hood's East Gate Wednesday night in remembrance of the 13 people killed during the mass shooting on post one week ago.

By Amanda Kim Stairrett Killeen Daily Herald FORT HOOD - Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was charged with 13 specifications of premeditated murder Thursday.

Ft. Myers-Naples, Fla. - A Florida man said he tried to send flowers to the suspected Fort Hood shooter, accused of killing 13 people and hurting dozens more.

This 2000 file picture provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences shows Nidal Malik Hasan when was a medical student at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Police are looking for two men in connection to a bank robbery Friday at the Extraco Bank in Killeen.

By Rebecca LaFlure Killeen Daily Herald Killeen Independent School District officials reopened their doors Friday morning, the day after a shooting rampage at Fort Hood left 13 dead and 30 hospitalized.

US President Barack Obama has praised the heroism of soldiers and civilians in their response to the deadly attack at a US army base in Texas.

Louie Caraballo long has believed he can sense death before it comes. The auto mechanic has lived in this military-dependent town of about 111,000 people abutting Fort Hood for more than three decades, and like many here and on the post, he is accustomed to an intimacy with mortality.

On this Sunday more than any other, Shemaka Hairston needed to pray. She survived last week's harrowing rampage at this base, in which 13 people died and dozens were wounded.

Dallas Morning News investigative reporter Lee Hancock and photographer Courtney Perry got a look today inside Maj.

Collin Gaddy ignored the ham on his plate and crawled into his mother's lap. His older brother looked up from a half-eaten slider.

About 80 Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts in Killeen began Veterans Day by placing miniature flags by the headstones at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery on the south side of town.

The shock and uncertainty caused by last week's bloodshed is giving way to a semblance of routine in Killeen classrooms.

The man who went on a rampage at Fort Hood , US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan exchanged e-mails with a radical, jihadist cleric in Yemen .

At Fort Hood "more guns" assuredly were "the solution to gun violence." November 11, 2009 When Maj.

U.S. Muslim service members say they stand out in both their worlds. Among fellow troops that can mean facing ethnic taunts, awkward questions about spiritual practices and a structure that is not set up to accommodate their worship.

President Obama took on the role of national eulogist on Tuesday for the first time since assuming office as he led the country in mourning 13 active and retired soldiers gunned down not on a foreign battlefield but here on their home post by one of their own.

Sgt. Fanuaee Vea embraces Pvt. Savannah Green outside Fort Hood on November 5, 2009 in Killeen, Texas.

Flowers sent to Ft. Hood shooter draw FBI interest Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 19:40 LEHIGH ACRES, Fla.

In the album of sadness there is no sadder melody than "Taps." On Tuesday, America mourned the 13 soldiers who were gunned down in an act as cruel as an ambush in Kandahar.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is awake and talking, a Brooke Army Medical Center spokesman said Sunday.

The Secret Service and advance teams from the White House inspected the grounds in front of the III Corps Headquarters Sunday afternoon in preparation for the Fort Hood memorial service set for Tuesday.

By Hailey Persinger Killeen Daily Herald As the death toll rose Thursday afternoon at Fort Hood, the number of those emotionally affected by the tragedy mounted as well.

Flags and crosses honor the victims of the shooting in Fort Hood in Killeen Hundreds gather at a prayer vigil at Fort Hood Military chaplain speaks at Ft.

Several hundred residents of a small Wisconsin community gathered Sunday night to pay tribute to a hometown soldier who was one of 13 people killed last week in an assault at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas.

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Killeen residents packed local churches Sunday morning hoping faith will help their community through what has been a very tragic week.

U.S. Army Ret. Command Sgt. Maj. James Rominger reaches down Sunday to touch one of the 13 crosses surrounded by American flags in front of the Central Christian church in Killeen, Texas.

The reserved greeting at Killeen's First United Methodist Church contrasted sharply with the effusive cries of parishioners several blocks away at the Christian House of Prayer.

Killeen police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run that occurred just after 6 p.m. on Saturday at the 1800 block of North Eighth Street.

Calleigh works at the crime scene of a slain undercover ATF agent who was posing as a motorcycle gang member, but the evidence she collects becomes corrupted when her car is run off of the road into a swampy canal.

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Soldier's daughter looks at a memorial wreath at the front gate of Ft. Hood. Flags honor the victims of Fort Hood shooting in Killeen, Texas.

Share + Nov 7, 2009 2:30 pm US/Central 1 of 1 U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Aarin Linse stands near an American flag that hangs at half staff, in front of the headquarters building, in honor of those killed or wounded yesterday at Fort Hood on Nov.

As the sun rose, the sky over Killeen was overcast this morning, setting the mood for a community still in shock over the shooting massacre at Fort Hood less than two days earlier.

A convenience store surveillance camera shows Hasan on the morning of November 5, in Killeen, Texas, before he shot and killed 13 people Fort Hood, Texas: Investigators yesterday searched for the motive behind a mass shooting at a sprawling US army base in Texas, in which an army psychiatrist trained to treat war wounded is suspected of killing 13 ...

A soldier who now calls Otsego home was shot and wounded during the attack at Fort Hood in Texas, but was doing well Friday, according to family members.

Mike Cahill enjoyed his work so much, it was worth the 60 miles each way from his home in Cameron to Fort Hood, family members said late Friday night.

These events all took place within about 30 miles either side of I-35 along the 100 mile distance from Austin to Waco, Texas: * November 5, 2009: The massacre at Fort Hood by a muslim traitor.

Guns Galore store in Killeen, Texas, where officials say Nidal Malik Hasan bought the semi-automatic handgun used in the shooting.

This Army town has grown wearily accustomed to death. But it usually comes in the form of heartache for the family and friends fighting on distant shores.

The Fort Hood shooting victims were dispersed to hospitals throughout Central Texas, where few details of their injuries or prognoses were released Thursday evening.

Spc. Joshua Branum, just recently back from his second long tour in Iraq, was at the Killeen courthouse taking care of a minor traffic issue when he heard of shootings and death at Fort Hood.

The army base shooting that killed 7 people in Fort Hood, Texas, today brings the memories of the Luby's massacre that took place in Killeen, Texas, a town next Fort Hood, on October 16, 1991.

Killeen was the site of one of the nation's most deadly mass shootings on Oct. 16, 1991.

The Army says seven people were killed and 20 wounded in a pair of shootings at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.

The Centex Humane Society's Second Chance Animal Shelter in Killeen, Texas, suffered a terrible loss his past weekend when smoke from an early morning fire killed a third of the shelter's residents - 15 dogs and nearly 100 cats.

Herald/CATRINA RAWSON A mobile home went up in flames early Monday after a morning fire in the 3000 block of Cantabrian Drive in Killeen.

A local animal shelter is trying to figure out what's next after a devastating fire Sunday.

KILLEEN, Texas - A fire at a no-kill animal shelter in Killeen claimed the lives of more than 100 dogs and cats.

By Rebecca LaFlure Killeen Daily Herald Raquel Madera moved to Killeen 11 years ago in search of a new beginning.

KILLEEN a 'A two-alarm fire Monday morning in Killeen gutted a mobile home at 3035 Cantabrian Dr.

Herald/CATRINA RAWSON Dottie Peoples, guest singer at Marlboro Heights Missionary Baptist Church, takes part in services Sunday celebrating the churcha s new sanctuary at 2901 Illinois Ave.

A military contractor from Killeen was killed in a single-car accident early Sunday morning in Bell County.

By Hailey Persinger Killeen Daily Herald As early voting draws to a close and next week's election nears, Belton Independent School District officials hope for a higher voter turnout for its bond election than it had in May.