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CENTENNIAL — Colorado theater shooter James Holmes is being held alone in a cell in a southern Colorado prison, where he is more closely monitored and has fewer privileges than other inmates, officials confirmed Monday. Holmes is not in maximum security at the Colorado State Penitentiary but is more heavily supervised, which is not uncommon…

CENTENNIAL — Prosecutors have released new photos taken in the chaotic aftermath of the Colorado theater shooting, including pictures of the auditorium where James Holmes killed 12 people. The images, which prosecutors released in response to open-records requests, also show the elaborate homemade explosives in Holmes’ apartment, which he had rigged into a potentially deadly…

DENVER — More than a month before James Holmes’ rampage on a Colorado movie theater, the head of his neuroscience graduate program called a campus police officer with alarming information: Holmes had told his psychiatrist that he wanted to kill people to make up for his failure in science. The call, never previously disclosed, came…

CENTENNIAL — The mother of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes gave an impromptu public apology Tuesday, telling a judge during his sentencing hearing that her son feels remorse but his mental illness and medications made it hard for him to express it. Arlene Holmes took the stand after more than 100 victims and survivors of…

CENTENNIAL — The three-day formal sentencing hearing of convicted Aurora theater shooting gunman James Holmes continues Tuesday. At the end of the hearing Wednesday, Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. will formally sentence Holmes to life without parole and up to 3,318 additional years on attempted murder convictions. Forty more people are expected to take the…