When the Colorado gunman’s defence lawyer rose to make her closing argument, and the other families of the murder victims of James Holmes walked out of the courtroom, Scott and Kathleen Larimer stayed.

Jurors moved a step closer toward sentencing James Holmes to death for his Colorado cinema attack, taking less than three hours to reject arguments that his mental illness means he should not die.

The psychiatrist who treated James Holmes before he opened fire in a Colorado cinema, killing 12 people and wounded 58 others, has said she would have called police and had him detained if she had known his plans.

Batman cinema gunman James Holmes asked police: “There weren’t any children hurt, were there?” hours after his arrest.

A prosecutor says James Holmes considered other locations and methods for his attack, including biological warfare, before deciding on a mass shooting at a suburban Denver movie theatre.

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

Protesters rallied across America for a third day over a New York grand jury’s decision not to charge a white police officer over the chokehold death of an unarmed black man.

The man accused of killing three people in attacks at a Jewish community centre and Jewish retirement complex near Kansas City is a known white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader who was once the subject of a nationwide manhunt.

An Australian icebreaker carrying 52 passengers plucked from an icebound ship in the Antarctic is resuming its journey home after it was halted for a second potential rescue operation.

All 52 passengers have now been evacuated from a ship which has been stuck in ice in Antarctica since before Christmas.

A teenager who may have had a grudge against a teacher opened fire with a shotgun at a US high school, wounding two students before killing himself.

A YEAR on, dolls fill the shelves of a living room and flowers and rainbows decorate a kitchen window next to a little girl’s name: Avielle.

Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl are back for more action in Mark Millar’s comic book sequel, which packs more of a punch than the first film.

Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated after a powerful typhoon thundered into southern China shutting down the financial centre of Hong Kong and sinking a cargo ship.

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.

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.

The head of Colorado state’s prison system was shot and killed at his home, just hours before the governor signed landmark gun control legislation drafted in response to a series of mass shootings.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 suspect in last month’s Colorado cinema shooting that left 12 dead was expected to be in court again today as prosecutors seek to show that he is sane.

The judge in the deadly US cinema shooting case has refused to lift a gagging order that prevents the University of Colorado from releasing information about former graduate student and suspect James Holmes.

Victims of the Colorado theatre shooting and their families have questioned whether the focus of the trial will be on the alleged gunman’s mental health rather than the killings themselves.

Lawyers for the suspect in the Colorado cinema shootings said today that their client is mentally ill and they need more time to assess the nature of his illness.

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A university psychiatrist was so alarmed by cinema massacre suspect James Holmes’ behaviour that she tried to bring him to the attention of the school’s threat assessment team, reports said.

Colorado prosecutors formally charged a former neuroscience graduate student with 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder in the shooting rampage at the midnight showing of the new Batman movie.

Prosecutors in the US are expected to file formal charges against the student accused of killing 12 people and injuring 58 others in a cinema gun rampage.

A man who dove in front of his girlfriend and saved her life during the Colorado movie shooting has been remembered for his selfless sacrifice, while an aspiring sports journalist was praised for her boundless energy.

A man who dove in front of his girlfriend and saved her life during the Colorado movie shooting has been remembered for his selfless sacrifice, while an aspiring sports journalist was praised for her boundless energy.

A university has said it received a suspicious package, but would not confirm the contents or whether the sender was a former student accused of killing 12 people in the Colorado cinema shooting.

The man accused of the shooting spree at a Colorado screening of the new Batman film posted a notebook detailing his plans to a psychiatrist just days before the attack, FoxNews.com yesterday reported as the first funeral was held for one of the 12 people killed.

Batman star Christian Bale has met survivors of the Colorado cinema shooting, and thanked medical staff and police officers who responded to the attack that killed 12 people and injured 58 others.

At least three men accused of making threats during or after watching the new Batman movie have been arrested in separate incidents in the US, underscoring filmgoers’ anxieties and heightened security in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at a Colorado cinema showing the film.

Christian Bale has travelled to Aurora, Colorado to meet with those involved in the movie theatre shootings.