All posts tagged "Aurora"

An employee at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility shot a protester outside in Colorado, according to local reports.

The shooting happened outside the Aurora ICE detention center on Thursday night. The protester is expected to survive, according to a post by journalist Kyle Clark.

The protester was shot by an employee at the facility who works for the private prison company The GEO Group, which is contracted by ICE, according to Clark....

WASHINGTON — Auroras lit up skies across swaths of the planet for the second night in a row on Saturday, after already dazzling Earthlings from the United States to Tasmania to the Bahamas the day before.

A powerful solar storm -- which could continue into Sunday -- has triggered spectacular celestial shows usually confined to the far northern reaches of the planet, hence their nickname of the "northern lights."

"I have the sensation of living through a historic night in France... It was really charged, with solar particles and emotions," Eric Lagadec, an astrophysicist at the Observatoire de Cote d'Azur, wrote on social media after the first night....

The man charged with opening fire with an automatic weapon in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. According to Colorado's News Channel 9, the judge in the case indicated in a hearing Tuesday morning that the court would allow James Holmes to change his plea from not guilty to not guilty by reason of insanity.

The alleged gunman behind the Colorado theater massacre is due in court Monday for a week-long preliminary hearing likely to hear chilling details about the shooting at a Batman film premiere.

Four people are dead including a gunman after an hours-long standoff with police in Aurora, Colorado, this morning. According to video from Denver's Channel 9 News, police were alerted to the situation around 3:00 Saturday morning.

A former Colorado police sheriff, who was once named national "Sheriff of the Year," pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of trading methamphetamine for sex with a male prostitute.