Fort Bliss News

The tone was somber and hearts were heavy Tuesday afternoon, as soldiers, civilians and officials waited for 13 men and women to be honored.

John P. Galligan, a retired military attorney who now practices criminal defense law said he was contacted Monday by the brother of the man accused opening fire Thursday at Fort Hood, killing 13 and injuring 29.

From her home in Perris, a military mother talked to Eyewitness News about the shooting in Fort Hood.

Military, friends and families have observed a moment of silence at Fort Hood, Texas and other U.S. military bases as a show of respect for the victims of the shooting rampage.

The number of victims killed in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood now stands at 13.

A 25-year-old soldier from Anthony, N.M., was killed in Iraq after being hit by sniper fire, Fort Bliss officials said Thursday.

It's tough for some veterans to even think about. "It's just spine chilling," said John Selam, an Army veteran.

Army Reservists from the Rio Grande Valley stationed at Fort Hood are safe, a spokesman said Thursday afternoon.

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.

Military families make tremendous sacrifices in support of the nation and deserve recognition as well as the best programs and policies the Defense Department can deliver, a defense official said yesterday.

Curry County native Jeff Crook will fulfill resigned Gold Beach City Councilor Sue Johnson's term, which will expire in November of 2010.

Patriot missile sites created by soldiers from this post are now guarding the skies of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.

Staff Sgt. Joshua M. Mills, 24, died in Afghanistan on Sept. 16, the day after a roadside bomb exploded next to his vehicle during a combat patrol.

For a week now, Staff Sgt. Nakia Jonathan Dawkins has worn his Army uniform to his civilian trial -- a move that prosecutors have questioned.

Missiles & Bombs News - By US Missile Defense Agency on October 20, 2009 at 6:10 am Loading ... The U.S. Army today activated its second Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery during a ceremony at Fort Bliss, Texas.

A Fort Bliss soldier on trial for capital murder in the beating death of his 2-year-old goddaughter was convicted Saturday of a lesser charge of injury to a child.

Ft. Bliss's JAG attorneys invited the U.S. Humane Society for training on handling animal cruelty cases.

HILLSBORO Investigators in Hill County are still trying to piece together the motives behind the fatal shooting of an Army soldier by an Odessa woman in what Hill County Sheriff Jeffrey Lyon called "a tragic accident." Lyon said 24-year-old April Danielle Thompson was charged with manslaughter after police accused her of firing a gun and fatally ...

Prosecutors rested their case Thursday in the trial of an army staff sergeant accused of killing a toddler in his care.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Riki Ellison, Chairman and President of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance -- www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org -- explains the importance of the nation's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system and what it means to Europe and the United States in a message to the members of MDAA.