Jury selection in the Colorado theatre shooting case has entered its final stage with attorneys questioning prospective jurors as a large group.

Some 9,000 prospective jurors — the largest jury pool in US history — began arriving for the Batman cinema shooting trial.

Jury selection has started in the Colorado cinema shooting trial after a judge called an unprecedented pool of 9,000 potential jurors to hear the death penalty case.

When a group claiming credit for the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment threatened violence against cinemas showing The Interview earlier this week, the fate of the movie’s big-screen life was all but sealed.

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Dublin produced a convincing second-half display to brush Wexford aside as goals from Cormac Costello and Paul Flynn contributed to a 16-point victory for the All Ireland champions.

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Dual player Lee Chin's hopes of playing for either the Wexford footballers or hurlers in tomorrow's All-Ireland qualifiers look to have been dashed by injury.

There are two changes to the Meath defence for their Leinster SFC semi-final clash with Wexford at Croke Park on Sunday (throw-in 2pm).

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A US judge has accepted of plea of not guilty by reason of insanity from the man accused of last summer’s Colorado cinema shootings.

Batman cinema massacre gunman James Holmes wants to plead not guilty through insanity, a move seen as his best chance of avoiding the death penalty.

The man accused of carrying out the Colorado cinema shootings wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity, his lawyers said, despite their fears that it could severely hamper his ability mount a defence against the death penalty.

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New questions are confronting the university that Colorado theatre shooting suspect James Holmes attended amid disclosures that a psychiatrist warned campus police a month before the deadly assault that Holmes was dangerous and had homicidal thoughts.

Prosecutors said they will seek the death penalty against the man accused in last year’s cinema attack that killed 12, wounded 70, and spurred new gun control laws in Colorado.

Prosecutors have rejected the plea offer of the man accused of gunning down 12 people in a Colorado movie theatre last July, saying his defence team’s offer of a guilty plea in exchange for avoiding the death penalty was not legitimate.

Prosecutors say they are not ready to accept the offer of a guilty plea from the Colorado cinema shooting suspect in exchange for avoiding the death penalty.

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The judge in the Colorado cinema shooting case entered a not guilty plea on behalf of James Holmes yesterday after the former graduate student’s defence team said he was not ready to enter one.

The judge in the US Batman cinema massacre case has entered a not guilty plea on behalf of James Holmes after his defence team said he was not ready to enter one.

A gun control package has cleared Colorado’s state senate as its backers described it as a needed response to the state’s blood-soaked history of mass shootings.

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Lawyers for the Colorado cinema massacre suspect have said for the first time that they are considering entering a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity on behalf of their client.

A gunman shot three people after a dispute at a US office complex and then fled the scene, police in Arizona’s largest city said today.

The Colorado cinema where 12 people were killed and dozens injured in a shooting rampage nearly six months ago reopened with a remembrance ceremony and a private screening of the fantasy film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey for survivors.

A judge has delayed the arraignment of the man charged with the Colorado theatre shooting until March.

James Holmes’s two-door hatchback was full of items indicating he might have planned to flee after allegedly shooting-up an Aurora, Colorado cinema last July.

Prosecutors were expected to finish presenting their case to a Colorado judge last night in the preliminary hearing of a former graduate student who is charged with shooting 12 people to death and wounding 58 others in a movie theatre last summer.

It was just hours after a Colorado cinema shooting, and James Holmes was not acting like a man accused of methodically planning the attack that killed 12 people.

An elaborate booby trap system found in the apartment of the suspected gunman in last year’s Colorado cinema shooting included improvised napalm and thermite, which burns so hot that water cannot put out the blaze, an FBI bomb technician testified today.

Prosecutors have outlined their case against the gunman who shot dead 12 people at a US premiere of the latest Batman film.

Four people, including an armed suspect, died during an hours-long police stand-off at a Colorado house.

A gunman shot three people dead before being killed by police after a siege at a Colorado house today.

The US cinema where the Batman killer gunned down 12 people has angered their relatives by inviting them to a special re-opening ceremony.

The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut are the latest in the United States’ long history of massacres at schools and colleges.

The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut are just the latest in the US’s long history of massacres at schools and colleges.

Lawyers for the Colorado cinema shooting suspect plan to subpoena a Fox News journalist who was the first to report that James Holmes sent his psychiatrist a notebook full of violent descriptions.

A hearing to decide if accused Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes should stand trial might not be held until January.

Online auction company eBay has cancelled the sale of a Halloween mask of Colorado cinema shooting suspect James Holmes.

The suspect in the deadly Colorado cinema attack threatened a professor and was banned from his university campus before one of the worst mass shootings in US history, prosecutors say.

The suspect in the US cinema rampage which killed 12 people in one of the worst mass shootings in the country’s history smiled and glanced around a courtroom today, a marked difference from his dazed and silent previous appearances.

Castletown and St. Anne’s (Rathangan) turned on the style when setting up a Wexford SFC final meeting with decisive victories at Wexford Park on Saturday.

The man accused of opening fire on a Colorado cinema told a classmate he wanted to kill people four months before the shooting, newly filed court records allege.