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Professors endorse legal weed in Colorado as Obama woos students

More than 100 college professors across the nation signed an open letter on Tuesday endorsing a Colorado ballot measure that would legalize marijuana and regulate it like alcohol, in a move timed to coincide with President Barack Obama’s campaign stop at Colorado State University. The letter was released by The…

Colorado theater shooting suspect ‘mentally ill’: lawyer

CENTENNIAL, Colorado — The man suspected of gunning down 12 people at a screening of the new Batman movie last month is mentally ill, his defense lawyer said, seeking more time to assess his health. James Holmes faces two counts of first degree murder for each person killed in the…

Obama whips up wind power attack on Romney

PUEBLO, Colorado — US President Barack Obama tried to put his Republican foe Mitt Romney on the defensive Thursday, accusing him of wanting to end tax credits for the wind energy industry and put at risk 37,000 jobs. On the second day of a swing through battleground Colorado, Obama narrowed…

Coloradoans likely to vote on ‘fetal personhood’ for a third time in November

Personhood Colorado has announced it collected 112,121 signatures for a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the state’s constitution. If 86,105 of those signatures are valid, the proposed amendment will be placed on the Colorado ballot for the third time in four years. “Once again, we are amazed at the tenacity of…

Colorado theater shooting suspect hit with slew of murder charges

CENTENNIAL, Colorado — Prosecutors charged grad school dropout James Holmes on Monday with killing a dozen people and trying to slay scores more in one of the worst mass shootings in US history. The 24-year-old neuroscience student allegedly burst into a midnight viewing of the latest Batman film, “The Dark…

Colorado shooting suspect due back in court Monday

Alleged Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes is due to make his second court appearance on Monday as he is charged with committing one of America’s worst ever mass shootings. The few journalists allowed to attend the hearing will be watching to see if there is a repeat of the 24-year-old’s…

Batman actor Christian Bale visits victims of theatre shooting

AURORA, Colorado — Batman actor Christian Bale paid a low-key visit Tuesday to Aurora, Colorado to comfort victims of last week’s shooting massacre, which occurred during a screening of his latest film. Pictures posted on Twitter showed the Welsh-born actor at the Medical Center of Aurora, where 20 of the…

Evangelical radio host blames Colorado shooting on ‘the liberals’ way’

The director of issues analysis of a conservative fundamentalist Christian organization on Monday blamed the massacre that left at least 12 dead in Aurora, Colorado on “the liberals’ way” of teaching evolution in schools instead of prayer and the Ten Commandments. On his daily radio show, the American Family Associations’s…

Latest Batman movie has third largest opening ever

LOS ANGELES — The most recent Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises” had the third largest opening weekend ever, despite the movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado, according to figures released Monday. Twelve people were killed and 58 wounded in the hail of gunfire in Friday’s Colorado massacre, in which…

WATCH LIVE: Attorney representing Colorado shooting suspect’s family speaks

The attorney representing the family of the shooter from a deadly incident in Colorado held a press conference on Monday. The theater shooting, in which suspect James Holmes is believed to have fired on a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises,” killed 12 and injured as many as 50.…