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Jury selection begins in Kansas Jewish site shootings

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OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — An avowed white supremacist who admitted that he killed three people outside of two Kansas Jewish sites seemed upbeat as jury section began in his capital murder trial.

Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. was wheeled into a Johnson County courtroom Monday wearing a jacket and tie and with his hair neatly combed.

The 74-year-old Aurora, Missouri, man has chronic emphysema and has been using a wheelchair and oxygen during courtroom proceedings since his April 2014 arrest.

Miller has admitted that he gunned down a woman, man and teenager outside of two Jewish centers in Overland Park, Kansas. He said he was targeting Jews, although none of the three were Jewish.

Miller is representing himself in the trial, which is expected to last several weeks. He could get the death penalty.

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Scott Kelly's Northern Lights Video Shows Beautiful Aurora From Space

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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shared a footage of the Northern Lights filmed from the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday, giving everyone back on Earth a rare glimpse of the beautiful phenomenon from above. Reported by Newsmax 1 hour ago.

Aurora Organic Dairy Publishes 2015 Corporate Citizenship Report, Progress Made toward Baseline Year Goals

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Aurora Organic Dairy Publishes 2015 Corporate Citizenship Report, Progress Made toward Baseline Year Goals BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aurora Organic Dairy announces its 2015 Corporate Citizenship Report, which provides an update from its award-winning inaugural CSR report, published in 2013. Reported by Business Wire 2 hours ago.

Sheriff Seeks Fugitive Wanted for Theft

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Sheriff Seeks Fugitive Wanted for Theft Patch Darien, IL -- This week's fugitive is wanted out of Aurora. Reported by Patch 1 hour ago.

ISS Astronaut Shares Another Dazzling Northern Lights Video

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Day 141. The chapter of a day ends as it began. #Aurora on a sunrise. Good night from @space_station! #YearInSpace https://t.co/hZBMs9q0CS

— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) August 15, 2015

If you think the Northern Lights look beautiful from Earth, take a look at this dazzling new video (above) from Scott Kelly.

The NASA astronaut shot the video of a shimmering aurora borealis from his perch aboard the International Space Station -- and then shared it on his Twitter account on Saturday. 

Kelly, who is almost five months into his one-year mission aboard the International Space Station, shared another video of aurora borealis from space in June. He has also shared stills of auroras, including the dramatic photo (below) that he posted a couple of hours before the latest video. 

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Another pass through #Aurora. The sun is very active today, apparently. #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/1uDtRzrGuY

— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) August 15, 2015

As Kelly suggested in the tweet of the still photo, auroras appear in as a result of interactions between Earth's atmosphere and energetic particles released by the sun.

Of course, you don't need science to see how beautiful auroras are!

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Aurora to celebrate Global Fest 2015 on Saturday

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The second annual Global Fest is Saturday in Aurora, with 20 performances celebrating cultures from around the world. Reported by Denver Post 3 hours ago.

Mandeville Police arrests August 4-17

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The Mandeville Police Department announced the following arrests from between August 4 and August 18, 2015: 08/04/2015 - Tara Juneau, 37, 721 Aurora St., Mandeville, was booked with Contempt/Failure to Appear. 08/04/2105 - Michael Mathieu Jr., 24, 425 Depre St., was... Reported by nola.com 23 hours ago.

Red and Purple Aurora Seen from Aboard the ISS - Photo

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Red and Purple Aurora Seen from Aboard the ISS - Photo Towards the end of last week, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and the other cosmonauts now aboard the International Space Station got to feast their eyes on the Northern Lights from high up in our planet's orbit.  Space explorer Scot Kelly caught the gorgeous light display on film and, not one to keep such wonders all to himself, sh... Reported by Softpedia 22 hours ago.

Drunk Colorado dad, son found passed out at airport gate, JPSO says

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Authorities arrested an Aurora, Co., father found intoxicated and passed out along with his 16-year-old son on a concourse at Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner, a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office arrest report said. Deputies later learned that Mark Novak's blood... Reported by nola.com 22 hours ago.

The Truth About Gun Violence and Mental Illness

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Written with Olamide Abiose, M.Ed.

The recent shooting tragedies -- Lafayette, Chattanooga -- and the recent sentencing of Aurora theater shooter James Holmes, have once again thrust mental illness into the center of our national dialogue. A wave of politicians and public figures -- from Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), to Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and the National Rifle Association -- have proposed legislation encouraging greater public access to mental health records, as key to addressing gun violence. It seems many Americans are operating under Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal's logic: "Look, every time this happens, it seems like the person has a history of mental illness. We need to make sure that the systems in place actually work."

While it's always refreshing to see high-profile calls for a properly functioning mental health system, one has to wonder, where were such calls when we learned that there are ten times as many mentally ill people in jails and prisons than in mental health institutions? Where was the outrage when state budgets slashed funding for psychiatric services, and cut nearly $4.5 billion in services to the mentally ill between 2009 and 2012? Where was the public support for increased access to mental health treatment after The Washington Post recently reported that a person in the throes of a mental health crisis is shot and killed by the police every 36 hours?

Why didn't we care that the system didn't work then?

As Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) pointed out in an interview, "You should reform our mental health system because it's broken. You shouldn't reform the mental health system only because you think it's a response to gun violence." And the research around mental illness and gun violence supports his claims. Countless studies show that mental illness does not predispose to gun violence towards others and, in fact, that persons with severe mental illness are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators. Similarly, although prisons and jails have huge mentally ill populations, the vast majority of mentally ill inmates are locked up for nonviolent crimes.

In fact, factors such as mental illness, stress, and high population densities are -- at best -- very weakly related to firearm deaths: only gun control restrictions on a state level are significantly correlated with fewer gun-related deaths. Yet, despite this, since the Newtown massacre, Americans have increasingly favored more gun ownership over gun control, and feel that little can be done to prevent future mass shootings.

Part of the problem is that coverage of mass shootings where the perpetrator has a history of mental illness increases stigma against the mentally ill. For example, one month after the Newtown massacre, over two-thirds of survey respondents reported being unwilling to be neighbors with someone who has a serious mental illness, and nearly half believed that people with serious mental illness are "by far" more dangerous than the general population. While organizations such as the National Rifle Association un-ironically propose a national database of the mentally ill as a way to curb gun violence, and oppose federal funding to research gun violence, the fact remains that the vast majority of violent acts are committed by people who are not mentally ill. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, only 3-5 percent of violent acts can be attributed to someone with serious mental illness. Even if we somehow managed to confine the entire population of people suffering from mental illness, as Dr. Renee Binder, president of the American Psychiatric Association, points out, "you might think you were safe, but you are not."

There's also another element at play, and it has everything to do with what kind of gun violence we choose to care about. The website Mass Shooting Tracker shows that we have barely gone over a week in 2015 without a mass shooting. But because the website includes the relentless daily carnage of far more frequent gun deaths -- particularly those in poor, urban settings -- it receives criticism from people like Fox News columnist John Lott, who would rather "focus on the cases that people are most concerned about."

Meanwhile, there were over 2,500 shootings reported in Chicago alone during 2014--if these shootings had been attributed to religious or political terrorism, or had been clustered anywhere but among the urban poor, perhaps journalist Lott and many others would consider them "cases" that people are "most concerned about."

The fact of the matter is that scapegoating those with mental illness after tragic instances of gun violence is not making us safer, nor is it promoting mental health. In being selective about what kinds of gun violence - or which victims - deserve our concern, and choosy about when mental health issues warrant our attention, we merely pay lip service to tackling either. It's wonderful to call for systemic reforms, to promote legislation, and prioritize mental health; but if political support is informed by stigma and conditionally granted, it helps no one.

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Aurora drops battle against court ruling on Gaylord Rockies tax

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Aurora's mayor said Tuesday that the Gaylord Rockies Hotel will move forward as planned, despite the city's decision to drop its appeal of a district court ruling that invalidated an election Reported by Denver Post 19 hours ago.

“Extreme Weight Loss” video blog from the CU Anschutz Health and Wellness Center: Mitzi’s transformation requires her to tear down her walls and get vulnerable

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Dr. Holly says that while Mitzi felt she needed her walls to protect her from feeling pain, they were also shielding her from the good things in life. Getting vulnerable and letting people in helped Mitzi connect with family and joy and happiness.

Aurora, Colo. (PRWEB) August 19, 2015

The latest edition of “Extreme Weight Loss” Season 5 was different from all the others before it. In this episode, Mitzi (Dallas, TX) had to overcome two addictions--over-eating and hoarding. She turned to both after suffering the death of her mother and betrayal by the love of her life in a span of just two months. For nearly nine years, the only time Mitzi left the house was to go to work or to eat fast food.

In her weekly video blog, the TV show’s medical director Holly Wyatt, MD, says this episode is one of the most powerful she’s been part of at the University of Colorado Anschutz Health and Wellness Center and describes it as thought-provoking. Mitzi had built both physical and emotional walls to protect herself from getting hurt again. Wyatt points to Mitzi’s decision to tear down those barriers and allow herself to be vulnerable as the foundation of her transformation success.

Every episode of the hit ABC series “Extreme Weight Loss” Season 5 begins at the CU Anschutz Health and Wellness Center at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colo. where Wyatt is associate director. She is affectionately known as “Dr. Holly” to the show’s cast members and her patients.

Dr. Holly’s weekly video blogs offer fans her insight about that week’s show plus advice on how to begin, or continue, their own weight loss transformation journeys.

Reflecting on this episode, Dr. Holly says that while Mitzi felt she needed her walls to protect her from feeling pain, they were also shielding her from the good things in life. Mitzi was disconnected from family and joy and happiness. Getting vulnerable and letting people in made all the difference.

“We all want to protect ourselves,” said Dr. Holly, “we all build walls. But, what Mitzi shows us is the power of getting rid of the barriers and allowing ourselves to take chances even if that means we might get hurt. Once she did that, Mitzi started experiencing life rather than just existing.”

Watch Dr. Holly as she challenges us to tear down our own walls and, in Mitzi’s words, live a new, transformed “super fantastic” life.

Dr. Holly’s advice:·     Walls and barriers get in the way of our successful transformations
·     Look deep inside and identify your own walls and barriers
·     Tear them down, be vulnerable, take chances
·     Let people in, experience life
·     This week I encourage you to go public with your vulnerability. Go to my Facebook page and tell me about the barriers you’ve built and how you will tear them down. You may get hurt and you may feel pain but by living life fully you will be prepared for a successful transformation.

Dr. Holly’s participation in the TV show inspired her to create the University of Colorado Anschutz Health and Wellness Center’s first destination weight loss program. The weeklong Extreme Weight Loss: Destination Boot Camp is designed to provide participants with the tools they need to complete their own successful weight loss transformations— without the TV cameras! Limited space is available in upcoming boot camps and weight loss seekers are encouraged to learn more and register now.

The University of Colorado Anschutz Health and Wellness Center offers some of the country’s most advanced research and science-based expertise, focusing on a comprehensive weight loss and weight management approach, including fitness, nutrition and wellness services. Follow AnschutzWell on Facebook and Twitter.

“Extreme Weight Loss” is produced by 3 Ball Entertainment. JD Roth, Todd A. Nelson, Matt Assmus and Brant Pinvidic are the executive producers. Reported by PRWeb 12 hours ago.

Cosmic fire

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Cosmic fire Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: aurora over Concordia research station in Antarctica Reported by ESA 11 hours ago.

Customer Growth, Industry Recognition and Acquisition Drive Exceptional First Half for Confirmit

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Significant team and client development reflects market leadership and company momentum

New York, NY and Oslo, Norway and London, UK (PRWEB) August 19, 2015

Confirmit, the leading global solutions provider for Customer Experience, Voice of the Employee, and Market Research, today announced its H1 2015 highlights. After the biggest financial year in company history in 2014, Confirmit has continued its success with a strong first half of 2015, deepening its role as a trusted partner for impactful feedback and research programs around the world. Specifically, Confirmit prioritized its expansion into the Asia-Pacific market through its acquisition of Information Research Management Pty Ltd (IRM), its exclusive value-added reseller in Sydney, and the launch of a new SaaS environment in Australia.

“Last year marked the most successful year to date and we’ve carried that momentum into 2015,” said Henning Hansen, Confirmit president and CEO. “With our focus on delivering solutions to address client needs and driving industry best practices and expertise, we’re confident that we’ll be well-positioned for another record-breaking year.”

Customer Success
Confirmit’s best-in-class technology solutions continue to drive business success for customers. With its thought leadership and unwavering commitment to delivering superior results, Confirmit has expanded its customer base to include many new Global 1000 organizations. These new clients contributed to the significant growth in businesses partnering with Confirmit for the long term, delivering:·     78 percent growth in new customer accounts.
·     59 percent growth in total value from its multi-year contracts.
·     25 percent growth in Confirmit’s number of multi-year contracts.

Confirmit’s customers continue to generate Return on Investment and real business change from their programs, including;

·     93 percent revenue retention rate, with a 94.6 percent overall customer service satisfaction score.
·     A 7 percent year-on-year increase in customer satisfaction.
·     A 23 percent increase in Net Promoter Score®.
·     A June, 2015 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Confirmit entitled: The Total Economic Impact™ Of Confirmit Horizons™, found that businesses implementing a Voice of the Customer program with Confirmit stood to achieve a Return on Investment of up to 326 percent over a three-year period.

Industry Recognition
Confirmit’s technology and customers were recognized globally as leaders in customer experience excellence, including:·     Confirmit was named as winner of the 2015 Customer Experience Vendor Excellence (CxVE) Awards by Temkin Group, a prominent customer experience research, consulting and training firm.
·     A CUSTOMER Magazine 2015 Product of the Year Award for the sixth consecutive year, recognizing Confirmit SmartHub™.
·     Confirmit customer Philadelphia Insurance won the silver award for transformational customer experience in the prestigious Gartner & 1to1 Media Customer Experience Excellence Awards.

“Transforming into a customer-centric business is no easy task,” said Zancesca Spagnoletti, Quality Manager at Confirmit customer, Philadelphia Insurance Companies. “It requires deep analysis of the customer lifecycle and getting the entire organization involved. At Philadelphia Insurance Companies, the management team is engaged throughout the process and now uses insight gathered using Confirmit to assist with the organization's strategic direction. With Confirmit as our partner, we’ve gathered more than 50,000 customer survey responses in the past year and now have a 94.6 percent overall customer service satisfaction score. The survey results are vital to driving our business forward and we believe the award recognition speaks to our commitment to ensuring we are consistently providing the ultimate customer experience.”

Industry Leadership and Presence
In H1, Confirmit continued to prioritize its client services group and its highly qualified experts who help clients build strategies that deliver measureable improvements in customer experience, retention and advocacy. Additionally, Confirmit announced its annual ACE Award winners, hosted a variety of thought-leadership events and members of its executive team spoke at multiple highly-respected industry events. Highlights include:

·     The 2015 ACE Awards received a record number of applicants and the most competitive applicant pool to date. Fifty industry-leading organizations earned a 2015 ACE Award including 21st Century Insurance, ADT Security Services, AIG, British Standards Institution, Canon USA, Dell Software, Harvard Business Publishing, Pitney Bowes, Siemens Building Technologies, Tyco SimplexGrinnell, Waters Corporation, and many more.
·     The appointment of Confirmit thought leader, Sarah Simon, a Senior Solutions Consultant to the position of CX Expert for the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA).
·     Terry Lawlor, Confirmit’s EVP of Product Management named a 2015 Technology Trendsetter by SURVEY Magazine for the second consecutive year.
·     Confirmit executives held key speaking roles at over 20 industry events around the world.

Innovation and Market Leadership
Continuing on its success in 2014, Confirmit identified customer needs in the marketplace and implemented innovative solutions for global VoC and MR programs to address those demands. These included:

·     Continued 100 percent uptime across all of its web-based SaaS environments globally.
·     A dedicated SaaS site located in Sydney to support Confirmit’s global growth. This investment offers increased speed of delivery of its solutions, and addresses the growing need for in-country data storage.

*All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Net Promoter, Net Promoter Score, and NPS are trademarks of Satmetrix, Inc., Bain & Company, Inc., and Fred Reichheld.

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About Confirmit
Confirmit is the world’s leading SaaS vendor for multi-channel Voice of the Customer, Voice of the Employee, and Market Research solutions. The company has offices in Oslo (headquarters), Chengdu, Cologne, Grimstad, London, Moscow, New York, San Francisco, Sydney, Vancouver, and Yaroslavl. Confirmit’s software is also distributed through partner resellers in Madrid, Milan, Salvador, and Tokyo.

Confirmit powers Global 5000 companies and Market Research agencies worldwide with a wide range of software products for feedback / data collection, panel management, data processing, analysis, and reporting. Customers include Aurora, British Airways, Cross-Tab, Dow Chemical, GfK, GlaxoSmithKline, GMO Research, JTN Research, Keep Factor, Morehead Associates, Nielsen, Research Now, RONIN, Sony Mobile Communications, Swisscom and The Wellcome Trust. Visit http://www.confirmit.com for more information. Reported by PRWeb 7 hours ago.

Graebel Relocation Wins Four 2015 Stevie® International Business Awards

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Named the winner of three silver and one bronze Stevie® awards

(PRWEB) August 19, 2015

Graebel Relocation, a privately-held firm that administers global relocation services for the Global 100 and Fortune 500, was named the winner of three silver and one bronze Stevie® awards in The 12th Annual International Business Awards. The International Business Awards honor the achievements and successful contributions of organizations and individuals worldwide. This year, more than 3,700 entries from over 60 nations and territories were judged by an independent jury for each category.

The categories in which Graebel Relocation was awarded a Stevie® award:· Company of the Year - Business or Professional Services, Graebel Relocation, Silver
· Customer Service Team of the Year – Business Services, Graebel Relocation, Silver
· Customer Service Department of the Year – Business Services, Graebel Relocation - Move Management, Silver
· Maverick of the Year – North America: William Graebel SGMS, chief executive officer Graebel Companies, Inc., Bronze

Stevie® Award winners were determined by more than 200 executives’ review scores worldwide who participated in the judging process from May through early August. Organizations of all sizes and in various industries submitted questionnaires. The 2015 Stevie awards will be presented at a gala black-tie awards event at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Toronto, Canada on 23 October.

This year marks the second year that Graebel Relocation has been honored by the International Business Awards. In 2014, the Gold Stevie® Award for Company of the Year in Business Services was collected by Graebel in-region EMEA executive Nicolas Sepulchre in Paris, France.

About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in six programs: The International Business Awards, The American Business Awards, the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.

About Graebel Companies, Inc.
Founded in 1950, Graebel Companies is a privately-held global organization that administers the full suite of employee and commercial office relocation, mobility management, workplace and consultative services for the Global 100, Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies. On-the-ground services are managed in 165 countries on six continents. The world headquarters is located in Aurora, Colorado USA with centers throughout the Americas, APAC and EMEA regions. Known for its industry-first innovations, Graebel holds numerous quality and security credentials, and has earned accolades from clients and from within its industry for its best-in-practice performance, market intelligence research and corporate social responsibility initiatives across the globe. To learn more visit: http://www.graebel.com

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Newsweek Names 2 Aurora Schools Among Country's Best

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Patch Montgomery, IL -- The schools came in at No. 393 and No. 497. Reported by Patch 5 hours ago.

Future of abandoned Safeway in Aurora concerns businesses, residents

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A Safeway that closed in Aurora last month has residents and business owners in the area concerned. They say the Aurora Highlands Shopping Center is already in decline and will be defunct unless Safeway gives up the lease on the space and allows another grocer in. Reported by Denver Post 2 hours ago.

Space Station astronaut takes stunning aurora photo

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NASA has released a stunning image of an aurora natural light display taken by one-year astronaut Scott Kelly from the International Space Station. Reported by FOXNews.com 55 minutes ago.

Dexter Lewis found guilty for stabbing five people to death in Fero's bar massacre

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A Denver jury begins hearing testimony Tuesday on whether Dexter Lewis lives or dies, as the shadow of the Aurora theater shooting trial looms over the death penalty issue in Colorado. Reported by Denver Post 1 day ago.

Regal Cinemas Will Check Moviegoers’ Bags in Wake of Theater Shootings

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The Regal Entertainment Group, the nation’s largest movie theater chain, has begun checking moviegoers’ bags before allowing them in.

“Security issues have become a daily part of our lives in America. Regal Entertainment Group wants our customers and staff to feel comfortable and safe when visiting or working in our theatres,” the chain said in a statement, after rolling out the policy this week.

“To ensure the safety of our guests and employees, backpacks and bags of any kind are subject to inspection prior to admission,” it continued. “We acknowledge that this procedure can cause some inconvenience and that it is not without flaws, but hope these are minor in comparison to increased safety.”

*Also Read:* Tennessee Theater Shooting Highlights Security Flaws, Experts Say: 'They Are Failing Their Moviegoers'

The Regal Entertainment Group, based in Knoxville, Tenn., is the first national cinema chain to announce that backpacks and bags of any kind are subject to inspection before being allowed inside.

It began instituting the policy this week in some of  the 569 theaters it operates, which have 7,318 screens. With Regal Cinemas, and the Edwards and United Artists chains under its aegis, Regak has theaters in nearly every state.

Two recent incidents have brought movie safety issues back into the spotlight. In July, a gunman killed himself after killing two at a movie theater in Lafayette, La.,  And earlier this month, in Nashville, Tenn., a man was shot and killed after he attacked moviegoers with pepper spray and a hatchet.

Last week, James Holmes, was sentenced to life in prison. for his 2012 shooting rampage in Aurora, Colo., in which 12 people were killed and another 70 injured.

  Reported by The Wrap 1 day ago.
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