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Theater shooter held alone in cell

CENTENNIAL – Aurora theater shooter James Holmes is being held alone in a cell in a southern Colorado prison, where he is more closely monitored and has fewer privileges than other inmates, ...

DATE: Sep 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Records show school’s response to Holmes

DENVER – More than a month before James Holmes’ rampage on an Aurora movie theater, the head of his neuroscience graduate program called a campus police officer with alarming information: Ho...

DATE: Sep 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

As killers get life, death penalty debated

DENVER – A Denver jury’s refusal to give the death penalty to a man who stabbed five people to death in a bar, coming on the heels of theater shooter James Holmes’ life sentence, has many wo...

DATE: Aug 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Judge sentences Holmes to life, orders him out of courtroom

CENTENNIAL, Colo. – The man who unleashed a murderous attack on a packed Colorado movie theater was ordered Wednesday to serve life in prison without parole plus 3,318 years – the maximum al...

DATE: Aug 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Judge gives spirited defense of theater shooter’s trial

CENTENNIAL – The judge who oversaw Aurora theater shooter James Holmes’ trial gave an impassioned defense of the jury and the process Monday after the mother of one of the wounded said Holme...

DATE: Aug 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

1 juror decided Holmes’ future

Top prosecutor says others on jury were shocked

DATE: Aug 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Death would have been uncertain

And at the end of trial for theater-shooter, a surprise

DATE: Aug 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Jury spares Holmes with life in prison

Colorado theater shooter avoids the death penalty because of a psychotic break

DATE: Aug 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Jury begins deliberating sentence for Holmes

CENTENNIAL, Colo. – Marcus Weaver spent nearly three years talking openly about forgiving the man who shot him, killed his friend and caused untold suffering. As a Christian opposed to capit...

DATE: Aug 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Theater shooting victim’s mom: Grief is agonizing

Closing arguments could begin Friday in death-penalty phase

DATE: Aug 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Victim’s grieving dad tells Holmes jury of devastating loss

CENTENNIAL – Jurors struggled to hold back tears Tuesday as a grieving father described how he returns now and then to the Aurora movie theater where his son was murdered. Tom Sul...

DATE: Aug 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Holmes jury keeps execution as option as sentencing advances

CENTENNIAL – Jurors on Monday moved one step closer toward sentencing James Holmes to death for his attack in Aurora movie theater that left 12 dead. Jurors took less than three h...

DATE: Aug 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News