New owner brings variety of changes to movie theater
What once was a medium popcorn at Hollywood Premier Cinemas is now a small, and the price of a small has doubled.
This won’t deter Mathiston resident Angela Boutwell from buying popcorn on her way into the theater, she said.
Theater shooter may not be executed even if sentenced to die
The time has come for jurors to hear whether James Holmes should be executed for killing 12 people in a Colorado movie theater.
Jury quickly convicts Colorado theater shooter of murder
Colorado theater shooter James Holmes was convicted Thursday in the chilling 2012 attack on defenseless moviegoers at a midnight Batman premiere after jurors swiftly rejected defense arguments that the former graduate student was insane and driven to murder by delusions.
Jurors see video of theater shooter asking if kids were hurt
Jurors in the Colorado theater shooting trial got their first look at a video recording of gunman James Holmes asking detectives, “There weren’t any children hurt, were there?”
Colorado theater shooter’s parents plead for his life
The parents of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes begged Friday for his life to be spared through a plea bargain.
Media wants cameras for theater shooting trial
Prosecutors and defense lawyers in the Colorado theater shootings case urged the judge on Monday to bar cameras from the courtroom during the trial, saying witnesses could be harassed and threatened because of the coverage.
Theater shooting victim’s parents sue ammo seller
The parents of a woman killed in the Colorado theater shootings filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing four online retailers of improperly selling ammunition, tear gas, a high-capacity magazine and body armor used in the attack.
Delay in plea by Holmes disturbs victims, families
A stunned silence settled over a courtroom Friday after the father of a woman killed in the Colorado theater shootings loudly cursed defendant James Holmes, prompting a sympathetic but firm warning from a judge.
Colo. theater shooting case enters new phase
A judge has ordered the Colorado theater shooting suspect to stand trial, but his attorneys say they’re not ready to enter a plea.
Self-portraits: Holmes sticks out tongue, has guns
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — The photos were chilling and enigmatic, just like their subject. In the pictures, taken on his IPhone hours before the Aurora movie
Police: Colo. shooting suspect planned massacre
As officials this week laid out the most detailed portrait yet of last year’s Aurora movie theater massacre, they also mapped sometimes paradoxical behavior by the man accused of the rampage, James Holmes.
Burnt money, campus ban: Tidbits on Colo. shooter
The suspect in the Aurora movie shooting case mailed “burnt currency,” along with a notebook, to his psychiatrist before the attack. He threatened a professor and was banned from a university campus before withdrawing from its neuroscience graduate program. His defense team has added a psychiatrist.
Burden on prosecutors to prove sanity
If James Holmes pleads not guilty by reason of insanity, prosecutors wanting to prove that he methodically carried out a deadly Colorado movie theater shooting have a difficult task before them: They must prove he is sane.
Prosecutors: Colo. suspect angry over academics
James Holmes was a promising neuroscience doctoral candidate, but by the end of the program’s first year, he had fallen out of favor with professors and failed a key exam, prosecutors said.
Lawyers: Colo. suspect is mentally ill
ttorneys for the suspect in the Colorado movie theater shootings said Thursday their client is mentally ill and that they need more time to assess the nature of his illness.
12 dead in Colorado theater shooting
A gunman in a gas mask barged into a crowded Denver-area theater during a midnight premiere of the Batman movie on Friday, hurled a gas canister and then opened fire, killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others in one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history.