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Cinemark to reopen Aurora shooting theater in 2013

Cinemark to reopen Aurora shooting theater in 2013
By P. SOLOMON BANDAAssociated Press AURORA, Colo. (AP) - Three people wounded in the shooting that killed 12 people at a Colorado theater have filed lawsuits alleging the exit door the gunman used to enter the building should have had an alarm. Two lawsuits were filed Friday in U.S. District

AP PHOTOS: In a digital age, paper stocks hang on

AP PHOTOS: In a digital age, paper stocks hang on
By CHRISTINA REXRODEAP Business Writer Bob Kerstein loves his paper stock certificates. At a time when stock trading is dominated by rapid-fire computers, he relishes paper stocks for their palpability. Wall Street seems cryptic and far away, but certificates are something he can see and hold.

Judge reviews N.O. police reform blueprints

Judge reviews N.O. police reform blueprints
By KEVIN MCGILL and MICHAEL KUNZELMANAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Details of a sweeping agreement to clean up the troubled New Orleans Police Department were heard Friday by a federal judge who must approve the reforms, some of the widest ranging ever negotiated by the federal government

Sentencing Hearing Set For Karl Thompson In Beating Death Of Otto Zehm

Sentencing Hearing Set For Karl Thompson In Beating Death Of Otto Zehm
SPOKANE, Wash – Former Spokane Police Officer Karl Thompson will be sentenced November 15th for his role in the 2006 beating death of Otto Zehm.  More than a year ago, a jury convicted Thompson of using excessive force and lying about it.  Thompson's defense team requested a

Sentencing Hearing Set For Karl Thompson In Beating Death Of Otto Zehm

Sentencing Hearing Set For Karl Thompson In Beating Death Of Otto Zehm
SPOKANE, Wash – Former Spokane Police Officer Karl Thompson will be sentenced November 15th for his role in the 2006 beating death of Otto Zehm.  More than a year ago, a jury convicted Thompson of using excessive force and lying about it.  Thompson's defense team requested a

Boys, 13, charged with killing great-grandmother

Boys, 13, charged with killing great-grandmother
By DINESH RAMDEAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) - Two 13-year-old Wisconsin boys were ordered held on $1 million bond Friday after being accused of using a hatchet and hammer to kill one boy's great-grandmother while stealing jewelry and a car from her home. Prosecutors allege that the boys

Victim of $10M theft offering $200,000 reward

Victim of $10M theft offering $200,000 reward
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - A wealthy bond-fund manager who lost his expensive Porsche and irreplaceable paintings by Jasper Johns, Richard Diebenkorn and other prominent artists to burglars is offering a $200,000 reward for their safe return. Jeffrey Gundlach returned to his Santa Monica home from

Asian energy boom threatens Montana ranches

Asian energy boom threatens Montana ranches
By MATTHEW BROWNAssociated Press ROUNDUP, Mont. (AP) - The big mining companies first came knocking on Ellen Pfister's door in the 1970s, ready to tap the huge coal deposits beneath her family's eastern Montana ranch. Pfister and others successfully fended them off, and as the coal

Graham Victim: 'This Is Not How I Was Going To Die'

Graham Victim: 'This Is Not How I Was Going To Die'
SPOKANE, Wash. - Debbie Watkins, the woman who was assaulted by Avondre Graham, spoke with KHQ's Dylan Wohlenhaus Friday. It was her first on-camera interview since the attack that seriously injured her on the Centennial Trail, September 13th. Her alleged attacker, 17 year old Avondre

Graham Victim: 'This Is Not How I Was Going To Die'

Graham Victim: 'This Is Not How I Was Going To Die'
SPOKANE, Wash. - Debbie Watkins, the woman who was assaulted by Avondre Graham, spoke with KHQ's Dylan Wohlenhaus Friday. It was her first on-camera interview since the attack that seriously injured her on the Centennial Trail, September 13th. Her alleged attacker, 17 year old Avondre