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Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants a unified probe that goes beyond the Army, but has not decided how far-reaching the inquiry would be or who would lead it. Full story »

Many of those injured in the methodical killing spree at Fort Hood, for which Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan has been charged, have already begun moving on, even as they live with scars and limps and frayed nerves, with wheelchairs and stomach staples and colostomy bags, with bullets positioned too precariously in soft tissue for doctors to remove without risk. Full story »

Brandon Young, of Sable Road, was pronounced dead at 2:43 a.m. at MetroHealth Medical Center. Full story »

David Kromer drank a few beers, barricaded the cottage doors and turned on the natural-gas stove. As gas filled the cottage, he tied a ligature around his neck and got into a closet. He tied the ligature to the clothes rod, put the revolver to his head and pulled the trigger. Full story »

Nidal Malik Hasan's behavior, while at times perceived as intense and combative, was not unlike the zeal of others with strong religious views. But some doctors and staff were concerned that their unfamiliarity with the Muslim faith would lead them to unfairly single out Hasan's behavior, an official said. Full story »

Police say Robert Beiser got out of his vehicle shortly before noon Tuesday and began firing into the front windows of the Legacy MetroLab. He was armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a handgun.  Full story »

The victims had argued with other teens riding an RTA bus. Full story »

President Barack Obama led the country in mourning 13 soldiers gunned down at Fort Hood, Texas, on Tuesday, Nov. 10. Full story »

John Allen Muhammad, one of two people behind the 2002 sniper attacks in Maryland and Washington, D.C. that left 10 people dead is executed by injection in a Virginia prison.  Full story »

A Cuyahoga County jury found 23-year-old Demonte Merriweather not guilty last week of aggravated murder in a death-penalty case. Full story »

Two officials speaking on condition of anonymity said the Washington-based joint terrorism task force, overseen by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was notified of communications between Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan and a radical imam, and the information was turned over to a Defense Criminal Investigative Service employee assigned to the task force.  Full story »

Virginia's governor refused to spare the life of John Allen Muhammad and cleared the way for his execution Tuesday night for the sniper attacks in 2002 that left 10 dead and spread such fear people were afraid to go shopping, cut grass or pump gas. Full story »

Cleveland's homicide count for 2009 has nearly equaled its total for all of 2008 -- and it's still early November. Full story »

John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to die by injection at a Virginia prison for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during a three-week spree in 2002 across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.  Full story »

Across Fort Hood, signs point to a post on the mend after the shooting spree Thursday that killed 13 and wounded 29. Accused gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, shot in the torso by civilian police to end the rampage, was in critical but stable condition and breathing on his own at an Army hospital in San Antonio. Full story »