Fox News Channel Draws a Large Audience for Coverage of Fort Hood Shootings
Viewership for the cable News channels surged on Thursday afternoon as News of a mass shooting at the Fort Hood Army base shocked the country. Reports of the shooting came shortly after 3 p.m. Eastern. The normally top-rated Fox News Channel was by far the most popular source for information about the shootings, with an average of 3.04 million viewers at any given time between 3 p.m. and midnight Thursday, more than a million above usual levels. CNN averaged 1.58 million viewers during the same...

Pregnant Chicago Woman Among 13 Slain At Fort Hood
A woman from Chicago was one of the 13 people killed in a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday. Francheska Velez, 21, had just returned from Iraq because she was pregnant, according to her family. She had served in The Army for three years.<br />

Fort Hood victims had different reasons for enlisting
The victims included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the Military about a year ago and a newlywed who had served in Iraq.

Fort Hood gunman gave his belongings to neighbour before rampage
Washington, Nov. 7 (ANI): The US Army psychiatrist, who allegedly killed 13 Soldiers and injured 30 others at the Fort Hood Military base in Texas, gave his belongings to a neighbour, saying that he would be gone to Iraq or Afghanistan for six months. On Thursday morning, Major Nidal Malik Hasan gave his neighbour Patricia Villa some items, including an air mattress, a steamer and men's clothing for her husband, some still in dry cleaning bags marked "Hasan." A day before, he had brought over a...

Fort Hood victims had different reasons for enlisting
The 13 people killed at Fort Hood included a pregnant woman, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the Military, a newlywed who had served in Iraq, and a woman who had vowed to take on Osama bin Laden after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Small details emerge on Fort Hood suspect
On Wednesday and Thursday, Maj. Nidal Hasan seemed in a hurry to give his worldly belongings to a neighbor. First a Quran. Then bags of vegetables. Finally a mattress, clothing, and odds and ends from his bare one-room apartment. Images View Larger Image More News "I'm not going to need them," he told the neighbor, Patricia Villa. He was going, he said, to Iraq or maybe to Afghanistan. That was just one of many small and enigmatic details to emerge Friday about Hasan, the 39-year-old Army...

Pregnant Soldier Among Ft. Hood Victims • Unsportswomanlike Soccer Player Suspended [Leftovers]: PHOTO
• One of the victims of the Fort Hood massacre has been identified as pregnant 21-year-old soldier Francheska Velez of Chicago, who was starting maternity leave in two weeks. "She loved the Military, loved to serve," said a friend. •

SHOOTING RAMPAGE AT FORT HOOD ARMY BASE: PHOTO
Sad News… An Army psychiatrist who reportedly feared an impending war deployment is in custody as the sole suspect in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas that left 12 dead and 31 wounded, an Army official said Thursday night. (see more below from Fox News) The gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, first said to have been killed, was wounded but alive in a Hospital under Military guard, said Lt. Gen. Bob Cone at Fort Hood. He was shot four times, and was on a ventilator and unconscious,...

Fort Hood shooting victims included newlywed, woman inspired to serve after Sept. 11 attacks
The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow Soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the Military about a year ago, a newlywed who had served in Iraq and a woman who had

A story of shock, chaos and bravery unfolds in Ft. Hood shooting: PHOTO
Reporting from Ft. Hood, Texas - In the end, the shooting rampage at Ft. Hood came down to a gunfight between two civilian base police officers toting standard sidearms and a 39-year-old psychiatrist armed with .357 Magnum and a pistol equipped with laser sighting and extra bullets, officials said. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, disturbed about his upcoming deployment to Afghanistan (not Iraq, contrary to earlier reports), reportedly entered the Soldier Readiness Processing Center just before...

Fort victims had different reasons for enlisting
The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow Soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the Military about a year ago, a newlywed who had served in Iraq and a woman who had vowed to take on Osama bin Laden after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Here is a look at some of the victims. --- Francheska Velez

Fort victims had different reasons for enlisting
The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow Soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the Military about a year ago, a newlywed who had served in Iraq and a woman who had

Cable News Ratings During Ft. Hood Breaking News
When the News broke around 3:15pmET yesterday of the massacre at Ft. Hood, the 24-hour News networks went in to high gear. A day later, we have the ratings which show where TV viewers went for information. Between 3pmET and 7pmET, Fox News averaged 1.79M Total Viewers and 627K in A25-54 viewers coming in first of the three cable News networks, and adding viewers with each subsequent hour. CNN averaged 1.33M Total Viewers and 371K in the demo, seeing some drop-off at 6pmET. MSNBC averaged 624K...

Orlando shootings: Who is the suspect? Fox News talks to former mother-in-law
A lot of details surfaced about Jason Rodriguez, the suspect in the downtown Orlando shootings today that left one dead and five injured. Some of the most eerie information from his former mother-in-law, who was not identified. She talked by phone to Fox News Channel's Shepard Smith. Here's the interview: Filed under: Fox News Channel , Orlando Comments Post a comment Comments are moderated, and will not appear on this Web log until approved. Your e-mail address will be linked to your...

Family, friends mourn Ford Hood victims
The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow Soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the Military about a year ago, a newlywed who had served in Iraq and a woman who had vowed to take on Osama bin Laden after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Here is a look at some of the victims.

Pregnant Kourtney Kardashian is sick of gaining baby weight: PHOTO
Pregnant Kourtney Kardashian claims she gained three pounds in weight in just one day. The Reality TV star, due to give birth in December, said she is getting sick of growing bigger. She said: "I gained three pounds since yesterday. "I weigh myself every day." She said earlier this week that she had put on 26 pounds since she fell pregnant.

Downtown Orlando shootings: Six reported wounded
The Gateway Center shootings in downtown Orlando gripped the community this afternoon and prompted stations to clear their schedules. It was a national story, too: Fox News Channel, MSNBC, CNN and HLN all covered the story. And it was a fluid story, as the number of victims kept fluctuating. Most reports put the toll at two fatalities and six wounded. But at 1:47 p.m., Orlando police spokeswoman Sgt. Barb Jones said there were six victims. One was a fatality. Jones identified the shooter as...

Pregnant Soldier Felled at Fort Hood
A pregnant soldier who had just returned from Iraq and was expected to be going out on maternity leave has been listed as one of the casualties in Thursday's

Fellow Worshipers: Fort Hood Suspect Devout Muslim: PHOTO
KILLEEN, Texas —  The Army psychiatrist suspected in Thursday's shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, attended morning prayers at a local mosque hours before the rampage that killed 13, the mosque's imam told FoxNews.com. Imam Syed Ahmed Ali said Major Nidal Malik Hasan usually worn his uniform or civilian clothes to prayers, but on Thursday, he attended in his full robe. He always was punctual, Ali said, describing Hasan as happy with his life and satisfied with the Military — not...

Soldiers feel 'betrayed' by slaughter at Fort Hood
FORT HOOD, Texas – It was a battlefield the combat engineers of Fort Hood never thought they would have to survive. Soldiers who lived through an unexpected gunfight at the sprawling Army base told the Tribune-Review on Friday that they were reeling from the chaos of a war they expected to fight in Afghanistan or Iraq, never Texas. They say they feel betrayed and saddened after witnessing the cold-blooded murders of 13 people by the suspected gunman, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychiatrist...

Fort Hood first responders remained calm amid chaos: PHOTO
The first people who came across Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the psychiatrist suspected of Thursday's murderous rampage, told tales Friday of quick, calm efforts in the face of danger.

Fort Hood suspect said goodbye to neighbors
FORT HOOD, Texas – As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship – common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier. Instead, authorities say, he went on the Killing Spree that left 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, dead. Investigators examined Hasan's computer, his home and his garbage Friday to learn what motivated the suspect, who lay in a coma, shot four times in.

Fort Hood suspect said methodical goodbyes - Yahoo! News
FORT HOOD, Texas – As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship — common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier. Instead, authorities say, he went on the Killing Spree that left 13 people dead. Investigators examined Hasan's computer, his home and his garbage Friday to learn what motivated the suspect, who lay in a coma, shot four times in the...

Retracing steps of suspected Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan
Reporting from Killeen, Texas, and Silver Spring, Md. -- Over the last few weeks, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan drove off the vast Army base at Ft. Hood, Texas, at least a dozen times to enjoy seafood dinners with Duane Reasoner Jr., an 18-year-old he was mentoring in the ways of Islam. They would pray at the simple Masjidu-Ttaqwa prayer hall out along the highway, hit the all-you-can-eat buffet at the Golden Corral and then rush back for evening worship. Twice they drove to Hasan's one-bedroom...

US hunts for motive behind Fort Hood massacre
As flags fluttered at half mast in memory of the dead, investigators searched for a motive behind the mass shooting at the Fort Hood Military base in Texas. The suspected gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim born in the United States killed 13 people before being wounded by police. Barbara van Dahlen is a clinical psychologist: “He had his own struggles going on about his role in the Military, his feelings about deployment, fear of deploying, whatever these things might be.”...