Fort Hood

Fort Hood has one of the highest rates of murder, sexual assault and harassment in the Army, Secretary Ryan McCarthy said Thursday during a visit to the Texas base.

U.S. Army officials said Tuesday that a Fort Hood soldier drowned at the same lake near the Texas base where another soldier’s body was found last month.

U.S. Army officials say the body of a Fort Hood soldier was found near the Texas army base, marking the third time in a month that a Fort Hood soldier’s body has been discovered

U.S. Army officials say they will begin an independent review of the command climate at Fort Hood following calls for a more thorough investigation into the killing of a soldier from the Texas base

Army investigators have identified the body of Spc. Vanessa Guillen, a soldier who vanished from Fort Hood more than two months ago, according to a lawyer for Guillen’s family.

Federal and military investigators say a soldier missing since April was killed and dismembered by a fellow soldier stationed at the same Texas base. The revelation followed demands for the Army to release details about its investigation of the disappearance.

The two suspects in the disappearance of 20-year-old Spc. Vanessa Guillen, who has been missing since April, were identified by authorities on Thursday.

While authorities haven’t confirmed the identity of remains found Tuesday, the family of the missing Fort Hood soldier said Wednesday Vanessa Guillen’s body had been found. “My sister’s no joke, “ said Lupe Guillen, the soldier’s sister. “My sister’s a human being. And I want justice.”

As law enforcement approached Tuesday night, a suspect in the Fort Hood disappearance of 20-year-old Pfc. Vanessa Guillen took his own life in Killeen, officials with the base confirm Wednesday morning. A second person, a civilian, is now in the custody of the Texas Rangers as officials continue to investigate human remains found on the post Tuesday.

Unidentified remains were found in Killeen Saturday afternoon, within walking distance of the site where the skeletal remains of a missing Fort Hood soldier were found a week earlier.

The U.S. Army, which has come under criticism by the family of missing Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen, is speaking out, addressing questions about the investigation into her disappearance more than two months ago.

The Army is now convinced there was “foul play” involved in the two-month-old disappearance of Fort Hood Soldier Vanessa Guillen, Rep. Sylvia García, D-Texas, said Tuesday.

Skeletal remains found in Killeen have been identified as those of a soldier from Oklahoma missing from Fort Hood. The U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Command in Quantico, Virginia, said on Sunday that the remains are those of 24-year-old Pvt. Gregory Scott Morales from Sapulpa. Police in Killeen say Morales’ remains were found Friday in a field in Killeen after Fort...

The U.S. Army is offering a reward of up to $15,000 for information leading to the whereabouts of Pfc. Vanessa Guillen, who disappeared five days ago from Fort Hood.

The jury is still out on whether women can be successful in infantry jobs, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday, while offering students at the Virginia Military Institute a dim view of female troops serving on the front line. Mattis, a retired Marine, said there are too few women in the infantry ranks to provide enough data to determine how...

A Roman Catholic priest was arrested and charged Tuesday with sexually abusing at least two boys during his four decades in the Erie, Pennsylvania, diocese, and making one of them say confession after the alleged assaults.

The revelation that the FBI botched a potentially life-saving tip on the Florida school shooting suspect is a devastating blow to America’s top law enforcement agency at a time when it is already under extraordinary political pressure. Even before the startling disclosure that the FBI failed to investigate a warning that the suspect, Nikolas Cruz, could be plotting an attack,...

A training exercise involving demolitions killed one special operations soldier and injured seven others at the Army’s largest base Thursday, just a day after 15 Marines were hurt in a fire while training in California. The soldiers were taken to several hospitals, including the Womack Army Medical Center on base for treatment, said Lt. Col. Rob Bockholt, a spokesman for...