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Colorado Shooting Suspect James Holmes Bought Rifles After Failing Oral Exam at University of Colorado

Colorado Shooting Suspect James Holmes Bought Rifles After Failing Oral Exam at University of Colorado

Accused movie theater gunman James Holmes purchased a high-powered rifle hours after failing a key oral exam at the University of Colorado, ABC News has learned. Holmes added the weapon to his already growing arsenal June 7, hours after he took a key oral exam at the college. ABC News reported that he failed the […]

Colorado Gunman Jalme Holmes’ Family Stands by Son

Colorado Gunman Jalme Holmes’ Family Stands by Son

The family of suspected Colorado gunman James Holmes said they will support the Ph.D student accused of entering a movie theatre last Friday and killing 12 people while wounding another 58. Asked if they stand by Holmes, lawyer and family spokeswoman Lisa Damiani said at a press conference today, “Yes they do. He’s their son.” […]

Police Sending a Robot to Detonate Explosives at Colorado Shooting Suspect’s Home

Police Sending a Robot to Detonate Explosives at Colorado Shooting Suspect's Home

Police investigating the Colorado shooting rampage prepared on Saturday to send in a robot to detonate what they called a sophisticated booby-trap in the apartment of a man accused of killing 12 people at a screening of the new “Batman” film. James Eagan Holmes, 24, is accused of storming into a theater in a suburban […]

Real-Life “Joker” Kills 12 People, Injures Dozens At The Premiere of New Batman Movie “The Dark Knight Rises”

Real-Life “Joker” Kills 12 People, Injures Dozens At The Premiere of New Batman Movie "The Dark Knight Rises"

Fifty nine people were injured and 12 people killed in Aurora, Colo., during a sold-out midnight premier of the new Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises” when 24-year-old James Holmes unloaded four weapons’ full of ammunition into the unsuspecting crowd.  The number of casualties makes the incident the largest mass shooting in U.S. history. Holmes, […]

48 Tons of Silver Recovered From World War II Shipwreck

48 Tons of Silver Recovered From World War II Shipwreck

An American company has made the heaviest and deepest recovery, so far, of precious metals from a shipwreck. The Tampa, Fla.-based Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. announced Wednesday that it had recovered 48 tons of silver bullion from the SS Gairsoppa, a sunken British cargo ship in three miles of water off the coast of Ireland. […]

Billionaire Tetra Pak Heir Charged After Death of Wife

Billionaire Tetra Pak Heir Charged After Death of Wife

The heir to the Tetra Pak fortune, billionaire Hans Kristian Rausing, was charged on Tuesday with obstruction of the lawful and decent burial of his US-born wife Eva, British police announced. Police discovered the dead body of Eva Rausing at the couple’s home in London’s upscale Belgravia district last week after they detained her husband […]

Ohio High School Drug Kingpin Arrested in Major Bust

Ohio High School Drug Kingpin Arrested in Major Bust

An alleged drug kingpin, who is just a 17-year-old high school student, was accused of running a multimillion dollar ring that distributed high-grade marijuana through two school districts and netted $20,000 a month, have been arrested by theOhiopolice. When cops raided the boy’s bedroom at his parents’ home, they discovered over $6,000 in cash, prosecutors […]

French Party to Sue Singer Madonna Over Swastika Image

French Party to Sue Singer Madonna Over Swastika Image

The National Front based in France said on Sunday that it plans to sue Madonna after the US singer portrayed a video at a Paris concert that contained an image of the party’s leader with a swastika on her forehead. The video has been shown at other concerts on the singer’s tour. The party has […]

Extremely Generous Boss Gives Employees $7,500 for Vacations

Extremely Generous Boss Gives Employees $7,500 for Vacations

Meet everybody’s dream boss:  Bart Lorang! Yes, you can say he may be the best boss the world has ever had. Because the CEO of Denver-based internet start-up FullContact API said in a competitive market for top talent that he wants to keep his employees happy and refreshed, he gives away $7,500 for vacation packages. […]

3,000-year-old ‘Frankenstein’ Mummies Unearthed in Scotland

3,000-year-old ‘Frankenstein’ Mummies Unearthed in Scotland

Researchers who unearth the “mummies” say that the pair of 3,000-year-old mummified corpses that were recently discovered in Scotland are actually composed of body parts originating from six different people. The corpses were discovered in Cladh Hallan, an archaeological site on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, the only location […]

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