A suburban Chicago gun shop is raffling a semi-automatic weapon to benefit victims of the nightclub shooting in Orlando.

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.

At the bar, everybody knew her name.

Ashley Moser drifted in and out of consciousness in a hospital intensive care unit, bullets lodged in her throat and a gunshot wound to her stomach.

A Chihuahua has been attacked by an owl.