Saturday, July 21, 2012

Evidence shows months of calculation ahead of Colorado shooting: police

Evidence shows months of calculation ahead of Colorado shooting: police

Evidence shows months of calculation ahead of Colorado shooting: police

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 06:30 PM PDT

Law enforcement officers use a fire truck lift to inspect the apartment where suspect James Eagan Holmes lived in AuroraAURORA, Colo. (Reuters) - The man accused in a shooting rampage at a Denver-area premiere of the new "Batman" film received a high volume of deliveries in recent months, police said on Saturday, parcels they believe contained ammunition and bomb-making materials and showed evidence of "calculation and deliberation. ...

Former lab technician charged in New Hampshire hepatitis C outbreak

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 09:18 AM PDT

(Reuters) - A former lab technician faces charges in connection with a hepatitis C outbreak that reportedly infected dozens of patients at a New Hampshire hospital, authorities said. David Michael Kwiatkowski, 32, is charged with obtaining controlled substances by fraud and tampering with a consumer product, U.S. Attorney John P. Kacavas said this week. The outbreak at the Exeter Hospital Cardiac Catheterization Unit is believed to have infected some 30 people with the disease, considered the most serious of hepatitis strains, authorities said. ...

"21 treated for burns in 'firewalk' at Robbins event"

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 06:48 PM PDT

(Reuters) - Nearly two dozen people were treated for burns on their feet after walking on hot coals during a motivational seminar conducted by self-help expert Tony Robbins in San Jose, California, local media reported. Firefighters treated at least 21 people for burns to the soles of their feet, several of them second- and third-degree, on Thursday night, according to a report in the San Jose Mercury News. None of the injuries was life-threatening, the report said. ...

More than $700,000 donated to bullied New York grandma

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 03:27 PM PDT

(Reuters) - A fundraising drive for a bus monitor bullied by middle-school students closed late on Friday with a whopping $703,873 raised for the New York grandmother. Donations for 68-year-old Karen Klein of Greece, New York, broke records for the fundraising website Indiegogo.com after a 10-minute cellphone video of the incident topped 8.3 million views on YouTube. The clip showed Greece Middle School students harassing and bullying Klein on the school bus until she cried. ...

Colorado shooting unlikely to spur changes in gun laws

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 06:12 AM PDT

Saving lights a candle after midnight behind the Century 16 Theater where a gunman open fire in Aurora, ColoradoWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Denver Mayor Michael Hancock is a member of a coalition called Mayors Against Illegal Guns, but when he issued a statement expressing shock and horror on Friday after a mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater, he had nothing to say about gun control. Neither did President Barack Obama nor his Republican rival Mitt Romney, though both canceled campaign speeches on Friday and expressed sorrow for the victims of the shooting rampage. ...

Stockton made scant headway in pre-bankruptcy talks

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 09:16 AM PDT

People walk past shuttered businesses in downtown Stockton, CaliforniaSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Stockton, California, the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy, never came close to striking deals with key creditors in talks before it sought court protection, the city disclosed on Friday in documents illustrating its stark choices. The city's bond insurers snubbed proposals from managers of the city of nearly 300,000 in California's Central Valley, where crime and unemployment have soared as the housing market fell. ...

Glimmers of growth on Florida's Space Coast after shuttle shutdown

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 01:57 PM PDT

Space shuttle Atlantis lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape CanaveralCAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Shuttles Bar & Grill, a once-popular roadside diner a few miles south of the Kennedy Space Center, is shuttered, and a "For Rent" sign is taped to the window of a bagel shop that used to serve space center workers an early bird breakfast. But a year after the United States ended NASA's space shuttle program, crippling communities around Cape Canaveral that had grown dependent on government contracts, private spaceflight and other ventures are starting to fill the void. ...

"Batman" shooting survivor proposes after family escapes death

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 09:12 PM PDT

(Reuters) - Surviving the deadly movie theater shooting in a Denver suburb was one momentous event that Jamie Rohrs and Patricia Legarreta shared on Friday - the other came afterward when they got engaged to be married at the hospital. The couple were in a theater in Aurora, Colorado, watching a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" with Legarreta's 4-year-old daughter and their infant son on Friday when the gunman opened fire and chaos ensued. Later, reunited and with the whole family safe, Rohrs proposed to Legarreta, who suffered a minor bullet wound, CNN said. ...

Obama to visit Colorado shooting victims' families

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 06:09 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will travel to Colorado on Sunday to visit with families of the victims of a deadly shooting rampage at a movie theater in a Denver suburb, the White House said on Saturday. Obama, who had been due to leave on Monday on a three-day trip out West, decided to make a stop in Aurora, Colorado, where a gunman killed 12 people and wounded more than 50 at a premiere of a Batman movie on Friday. (Reporting By Matt Spetalnick)

Suspect in Colorado "Batman" shooting held in solitary confinement

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 04:20 PM PDT

AURORA, Colo. (Reuters) - The 24-year-old graduate student accused of killing 12 people in a shooting rampage at a Denver-area screening of the new "Batman" film was being held in solitary confinement for his own protection from other inmates, authorities said on Saturday. "We typically do this in high-profile cases," Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson told Reuters. "It has nothing to do with any specific threat." Robinson said Holmes would be represented at his initial court appearance on Monday by James O'Connor, head of the Arapahoe County public defender's office. ...

More than $700,000 donated to bullied New York grandma

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 03:27 PM PDT

(Reuters) - A fundraising drive for a bus monitor bullied by middle-school students closed late on Friday with a whopping $703,873 raised for the New York grandmother. Donations for 68-year-old Karen Klein of Greece, New York, broke records for the fundraising website Indiegogo.com after a 10-minute cellphone video of the incident topped 8.3 million views on YouTube. The clip showed Greece Middle School students harassing and bullying Klein on the school bus until she cried. ...

Coroner identifies 12 victims in Colorado movie theater shooting

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 03:22 PM PDT

DENVER (Reuters) - A coroner on Saturday released the identities of the dozen victims - aged between 6 and 51 - who were shot to death in a mass shooting at a Denver-area movie theater, noting the manner of death was "homicide" and that all families had been notified. Police say suspect James Holmes, 24, was armed with an assault rifle, a shotgun and a pistol and wearing a full suit of tactical body armor when he allegedly set off two smoke bombs and opened fire in a dark theater early on Friday in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others. ...

Police say shooting suspect got "high volume" of deliveries

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 02:23 PM PDT

AURORA, Colo. (Reuters) - The man accused in a shooting rampage at a Denver-area premiere of the new "Batman" film received a high volume of deliveries to his work and home over the past four months, police said on Saturday, parcels they believe contained ammunition and possibly bomb-making materials. Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates revealed the shipments as local and federal authorities worked to make safe the apartment of 24-year-old James Holmes, which was found booby-trapped with sophisticated explosives following the massacre on Friday at a multiplex theater several miles away. ...

Families of Colorado shooting victims faced agonizing wait

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 02:07 PM PDT

(Reuters) - The phone rang about 1 a.m. Greg Medek was jolted awake. One of his daughter's friends was on the phone. The news was impossible to comprehend. Medek's 23-year-old daughter, Micayla, had been shot at a midnight showing of the new Batman movie in her hometown of Aurora. She'd been there with a group of friends. When the chaos erupted, they made it out. She had not. For the next 20 hours, Micayla's family would search for her. Her sister, Amanda, drove from hospital to hospital with Micayla's photo, desperate to find someone who might have seen her. ...

Glimmers of growth on Florida's Space Coast after shuttle shutdown

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 01:57 PM PDT

Space shuttle Atlantis lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape CanaveralCAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Shuttles Bar & Grill, a once-popular roadside diner a few miles south of the Kennedy Space Center, is shuttered, and a "For Rent" sign is taped to the window of a bagel shop that used to serve space center workers an early bird breakfast. But a year after the United States ended NASA's space shuttle program, crippling communities around Cape Canaveral that had grown dependent on government contracts, private spaceflight and other ventures are starting to fill the void. ...

Mexico urges U.S. to review gun laws after Colorado shooting

Posted: 21 Jul 2012 01:44 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon condemned U.S. gun laws as "mistaken" and urged Washington to review them after a shooter killed 12 people and injured more than 50 others at a U.S. movie theater on Friday. In comments posted on his Twitter account on Saturday, Calderon offered his condolences to the United States after a gunman went on the rampage with an assault rifle at a midnight premier of the new Batman film in Aurora, Colorado. ...
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