Former Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson emerged Tuesday from a crowded GOP primary as one of the top candidates in a comfortably Republican district that covers much of North Texas and the Panhandle.
The gunman who killed more than 20 people in a Texas church shooting Sunday morning was a former airman who was court-martialed and dishonorably discharged, according to a CBS News report.
Bill McRaven came to Texas an American military hero, charged with leading one of the country's largest public university systems at a time it needed a steady hand.
The U.S. Army has said the nine Fort Hood soldiers who died when a rain-swollen creek swept their vehicle into rushing waters were in the right place for their intended training.
The last four soldiers still missing after a truck carrying a dozen troops was washed from a flooded low-water cross at Fort Hood were found dead Friday, bringing the death toll from the accident to nine.