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By Matt Goodman Killeen Daily Herald Texas Sen. Troy Fraser, R-Horseshoe Bay, assured a ballroom filled with Central Texas officials Monday that the state is on more solid financial footing than any other.

By Mark Sappenfield Staff writer, CSMonitor - Several Texas lawmakers appear to be attempting an end-run around President Obama's effort to refrain from calling the Fort Hood shootings an act of terrorism.

No American can deny that the dead and wounded victims of this month's shooting rampage at Fort Hood fell in service to their country.

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Suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, has a hearing Saturday about pretrial confinement.

A Texas lawmaker is proposing to treat the 13 people wounded or killed this month at Fort Hood by a gunman as casualties of combat.

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Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is charged with 13 counts of murder. Robert Godwin American-Statesman U.S. Rep.

Army and civilian personnel who were wounded or killed in the shooting attack on Fort Hood would be granted the same legal status as combatant casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, if bipartisan legislation introduced today by U.S. Representative John Carter passes into law.

By MARIA RECIO WASHINGTON - For Texas lawmakers, the Fort Hood shootings are personal - and Republican members say they are anxious to get congressional investigations under way quickly, even if it means potentially inflaming 'politically correct' sensibilities.'It's clear to me this was a radical Islam jihadist who went to war against his own ...

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From staff reports Army and civilian personnel who were wounded or killed in the Nov.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are at Fort Hood where they'll attend a memorial service this afternoon for the 12 soldiers and one civilian who died in the shooting rampage Thursday at the post's Soldier Readiness Center.

From staff reports Several local events and programs are planned across Central Texas today in observance of Veterans Day.

Sometimes you can't win for losing - or something like that. Look off to the right of this column and you'll see a sampling of letters we received about U.S. Rep.

One supreme oddity of human nature is that we often show the very best of ourselves during the very worst of times.

Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, and Rep. John Carter, R-Round Rock, both voted against the sweeping health care reform bill that the U.S. House passed in a 220-215 vote Saturday night.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has declared a moment of silence for U.S. military forces worldwide as a show of respect for the Fort Hood victims.

Hasan attended Virginia Western Community College from 1990 to 1992. He graduated summa cum laude with an associate in science degree in 1992, according to college spokeswoman Margaret Boyes.

They ranged in age from 19 to 62. They were immigrants and second-generation U.S. military, newlyweds and single moms.