Suspect in 2007 Springtown kidnappings given 2 life sentences, plus 99 years

Police said the suspects kidnapped a teller and her husband, hoping to use her to get into a Springtown bank where she worked, but the plan unraveled.

2 men sentenced in Fort Worth for child pornography

One man is from Mineral Wells and the other is a Fort Worth resident.

Man executed after Perry rejects parole board's clemency recommendation

Gov. Rick Perry rejects a rare parole board recommendation that Robert Lee Thompson's sentence be commuted.

Lawsuits accuse contractor KBR of putting profit above workers' lives in Iraq

Officials with contractor KBR were concerned about possible casualties but still sent a convoy of fuel trucks through an Iraq combat zone where an ambush killed six of the civilian drivers, according to e-mails presented in court this week.

USS Saipan makes its last port of call at scrap yard

Old soldiers never die, they're just hauled away and cut into scrap.

Retired military officers: Number of youths unfit for service is future threat to national security

Mission: Readiness calls for $1 billion from Congress for early childhood programs.

Gates taps pair to investigate whether Army felt pressure to keep Hasan

He also orders a review of whether Army practices could have reasonably prevented the attack.

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