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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Jury selection is set to start Tuesday in the long-awaited murder trial of the Army psychiatrist charged with opening fire in a Fort Hood building nearly four years ago. Some soldiers who survived the Nov. 5, 2009, rampage on the Texas Army post say waiting to testify in Maj...

The trial of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan enters the jury selection phase Tuesday after almost four years of delays. Army officers from across the United States will be flown to Fort Hood for possible inclusion in the jury that will decide if Major Nidal Hasan will face execution following a November 5, 2009 shooting on base that killed 13 and injured 32...

The judge presiding over Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan’s trial entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of the defendant at a Tuesday hearing. Judge Colonel Tara Osborn entered the plea after Hasan refused to enter a plea himself. Hasan said he had tried to plead guilty earlier in the case after the Muslim community he had been a part of told him is actions were wrong, but he later came to believe i

The presiding judge in the Nidal Hasan trial ruled Thursday that witness testimony about a pregnant soldier killed during the 2009 Fort Hood shooting will be allowed. At a hearing in 2010, a soldier who witnesses the attack testified that Pvt...

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — An Army psychiatrist charged with gunning down fellow soldiers in a deadly 2009 attack at Fort Hood is to appear at a hearing less than two weeks before he goes on trial. A military judge is to rule on pending matters Thursday in Maj...

ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Jury selection will start July 9 in the murder trial of the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage. The judge set the date after rejecting Maj...

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A military judge is expected to rule on whether to grant a three-month trial delay to the Army psychiatrist charged in the Fort Hood shooting rampage. Maj. Nidal Hasan asked the judge for the extra time to prepare after being granted a request to represent himself at his murder trial...

Judge Col. Tara Osborn has rejected Nidal Hasan’s “defense of others” strategy. At a Friday hearing, Osborn ruled that Hasan will be prohibited from entering any evidence or testimony claiming he was protecting Taliban leaders in Afghanistan from Fort Hood troops set to deploy...

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A military judge is to address the latest snag holding up the trial in the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage: the former defense attorneys' objections to helping the suspect as he represents himself in court. Maj...

At a Tuesday hearing, attorneys for accused Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan said that aiding him in pursuing his current defense strategy would cross an ethical line. Hasan asserts that he carried out a 2009 mass shooting on base in order to protect Taliban leaders and fighters from American troops deploying to Afghanistan...