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• FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- As the head of a military jury read a verdict convicting him of premeditated murder 13 times, Major Nidal Hasan stared intently at her. Then he let his eyes fall to the courtroom desk in front of him.
• The army psychiatrist responsible for a 2009 shooting rampage against his fellow soldiers at Texas' Fort Hood, the worst mass-shooting in history on a U.S. military base, offered no visible reaction and said nothing. But that's how almost his entire 14-day trial has gone -- ever since Hasan fired his legal team and began representing himself.
• On Monday morning, the jury's 11 men and two women will begin deciding whether Hasan should be put to death by lethal injection. And, despite trial judge Col. Tara Osborn saying it was an unwise decision, he said he wishes to continue acting as his own lawyer.
• "This is where members (of the jury) decide whether you will live or whether you

will die," Osborn told Hasan after the verdict. The sentencing phase will include more testimony from survivors of the attack inside an Army medical center where soldiers were waiting to receive immunizations and medical clearance for deployment to combat overseas.
• There was never any doubt that Hasan was the gunman. He acknowledged to the jury that he pulled the trigger on fellow soldiers as they prepared to deploy overseas to Iraq and Afghanistan, saying he had "switched sides" and acted to protect Muslim insurgents abroad.
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• JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) -- The villagers traveled nearly 7,000 miles to learn the fate of the American soldier who gunned down their children, siblings and parents, who set their lifeless bodies afire with a kerosene lantern. And when the news came, it came in a simple gesture: a thumb's up from their interpreter.
• A military jury sentenced Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 40, to life in prison without the

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