Aurora theater shooting: GivingFirst will match donations

GivingFirst.org, Community First Foundation’s online giving resource for Colorado, is helping Coloradans — such as those at last night’s vigil (right) find local organizations that are dedicated to helping victims and families of the July 20 shooting — and is matching donations up to $200,000…

Aurora theater shooting: Hundreds gather and say prayers at vigil

Nineteen hours after James Holmes fired shots during a midnight screening of The Dark Night Rises — bringing national media attention to Aurora and Colorado — hundreds gathered near the Aurora Town Center Century 16 this evening to honor the twelve individuals who died and dozens more who were injured…

Aurora theater shooting prompts volleys from pro-gun, anti-gun forces

Whenever there’s a shocking example of firearm mayhem like the shootings at the Aurora Century 16 theater, it doesn’t take long for those on either side of the pistol-availability argument to start trying to make ideological points. Prime examples: Texas Representative Louie Gohmert, who wondered why no one in the…

Aurora theater shooting: “We are all just crying”

Editor’s note: Sam Levin is at Gateway High School, near the scene of the Aurora Century 16 theater shooting. People continue to gather at Gateway High School, where witnesses were taken after the attack — among them more and more panicked individuals trying to find out whether friends and loved…

Aurora is finally a household name…for the wrong reason

The City of Aurora and its booster group, Visit Aurora, have been working hard to advance the city’s profile, pushing the upstart suburb just east of Denver out from under the shadow of its older, bigger sibling and making it a household name across the country. Today it is. But…

Videos: Aurora Century 16 shootings at The Dark Knight Rises

Overnight, a gunman opened fire during a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises at the Aurora Town Center Century 16 movie complex. At this writing (and these numbers could well change, and change soon), fourteen people are confirmed dead, with an estimated fifty wounded, some said to be in…

Bizarre Colorado crimes inspiring copycats?

Luke Irvin Chrisco, who became known last summer as the Boulder porta-potty peeper, has been found competent to stand trial — even if it seems like no person in his right mind would choose such a venue to get his creep on. But strange as that was, someone else pulled…