Fort Carson News

An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States.

Sergeant Brad Rokicki was on base when Major Nidal Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood.

Senator Mark Udall says the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas underscore that more needs to be done to help "troops who find themselves at the breaking point." The Colorado Democrat was briefed by Army officials on Friday along with other members of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Every year hundreds of people are killed in DUI-related crashes across the nation.

Coloradans reacted with shock and grief after the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday, but the state's major military installations said their current security precautions were strong enough.

FORT HOOD, Texas A soldier opened fire at a U.S. Army base in Texas on Thursday, unleashing a stream of gunfire that left 12 people dead and 31 wounded.

It's been a month since 100 Fort Carson soldiers fought 400 insurgents in a narrow canyon in a remote corner of southeast Afghanistan.

As of Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, at least 814 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.

Mary Garcia, with her son Andrew, 4, is planning to attend her sister Sgt. Eduviges Wolf's funeral in South Dakota.

Six-year-old Andrew Stivison stood tall to receive the folded flag, returned the general's salute, and then hugged the flag to his chest, a reminder of a fallen father who was known for his bear hugs.

Jury selection has begun for the trial of a Fort Carson soldier accused of killing two Colorado Springs residents while they were putting up garage sale signs last year.

Mortenson Construction has been selected as the design-builder for the $27.3 million Wilderness Road Brigade Battalion Headquarters at Fort Carson.

Complete to the cork floors, sound-proof practice rooms and a recording studio that would make most musicians jealous, Fort Carson's newly arrived band is couched in style.

The CoN is a requirement for all enterprise software products in the Army Enterprise Infrastructure Network.

El Pomar Foundation will host the signing of a second Army Community Covenant of Fort Carson today at 3 p.m. at the Garden Pavilion at Penrose House.

"Thus it is said that one who knows the enemy and knows himself will not be endangered in a hundred engagements." Sun Tzu, The Art of War.

A Colorado Springs family mourns the loss of staff Sergeant Glenn Stivison. He was killed last week in Afghanistan.

Fort Carson Army Sgt. Glen Stivison was killed Thursday when an improvised explosive device hit his vehicle on a road outside Kandahar, Afghanistan, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported today.

A Longmont sexual assault suspect who was armed with firearms and explosives surrendered to police late Saturday afternoon without incident, police said.

Flags at all New Jersey state buildings will be flown at half-staff Tuesday in recognition of a fallen soldier with ties to the Garden State .