New York: In a freak accident, an 18-year-old Indian-origin girl was killed in the US when she jumped out of a closet to surprise a friend, who shot her thinking she was an intruder.
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Thrill-seekers looking for a new way to get their adrenaline pumping may want to head to the Colorado, US, where a new ride has trumped all other river swings.
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Colorado voters approved Tuesday a proposal to legalize marijuana including for recreational use, the first US state to do so, according to US media.

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The man accused of opening fire on an Aurora movie theater told a classmate he wanted to kill people four months before the shooting, newly released court records allege.

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Well-wishers from the United States and around the world have donated $4.4 million to a fund for the victims of a mass shooting at a US movie theater, a court heard on Thursday.

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Attorneys for the suspect in the Colorado movie theater shootings said Thursday their client is mentally ill and that they need more time to assess the nature of his illness.

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New York police has said they want to force Twitter to reveal who posted Tweets threatening to massacre theatergoers in a copycat of the recent bloodbath at a cinema in Colorado.

Launching a case that legal analysts expect to be dominated by arguments over the defendant's sanity, Colorado prosecutors are filing formal charges on Monday against James Eagan Holmes, the former ne

Colorado prosecutors charged James Holmes on Monday with 140 counts of murder or attempted murder, including 12 of first-degree murder for each fatality in the Aurora cinema shooting.

The suspected Batman movie premiere gunman was seeing a university psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia before the shooting that killed 12, court documents showed Friday.

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