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One of my last assignments at the Killeen Daily Herald was covering the first day of the trial of Nidal Hasan, the Army major convicted today of the largest shooting on a U.S. military instillation in history. Today, on Fort Hood, a jury of 13 unanimously declared him guilty of 13 counts of murder and…
The fire started in the attic of Building No. 1204 of the Moss Rose low-income housing complex in Killeen a little before noon Friday. In less than two hours 20 residents had lost their homes. low-income housing Moss Rose Homes is located just one mile from the charred concrete foundation of the former Casa Tejas…
I had been assigned to cover an event – the W100K Wounded Warrior Bike Ride – on George W. Bush’s 1,400-acre Prairie Chapel Ranch outside of Crawford, Texas. The idea was to bring awareness to soldiers injured in the wars since 9/11. W100K Wounded Warrior Bike Ride Fourteen soldiers were chosen for the W100K Wounded Warrior Bike…
I hucked my trash into the dumpster today and nearly hit a homeless man in a blue Dallas Cowboys sweatshirt. He was rummaging through the trash and didn’t even notice until he heard me apologize. “I guess that’s what I get for being here,” he said, in a sad descending tone. He was not the…