July 23 Photo Brief: Penn State hit with harsh penalties from NCAA, Colorado movie theater shooter makes first court appearance
James Eagan Holmes, accused Colorado movie theater shooter makes first court appearance, Penn State receives harsh penalties from the NCAA — including a $60 million fine and four-year bowl ban in aftermath of Jerry Sandusky scandal, and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Family members of the victims of last Friday’s movie theater mass shooting arrive at the Arapahoe County Courthouse for James Holmes’ first court appearance July 23, 2012 in Centennial, Colorado. According to Aurora police, Holmes killed 12 people and injured 59 others during a shooting rampage at an opening night screening of ‘The Dark Knight Rises.’ (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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- Family members of the victims of last Friday’s movie theater mass shooting arrive at the Arapahoe County Courthouse for James Holmes’ first court appearance July 23, 2012 in Centennial, Colorado. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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- Family members of the victims of last Friday’s movie theater mass shooting arrive at the Arapahoe County Courthouse for James Holmes’ first court appearance July 23, 2012 in Centennial, Colorado. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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- Penn State football players leave the Mildred and Louis Lasch Football Building following a team meeting soon after the NCAA announced Sanctions on July 23, 2012 in State College, Pennsylvania. As an outcome of the university’s mishandling of the allegations of child-sexual abuse by former coach Jerry Sandusky, Penn State was fined $60 million, stripped of all its football wins from 1998 through 2011, barred from postseason games for four years, and lost 20 total scholarships annually for four seasons. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
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- The AIDS Quilt is laid out on the National Mall July 23, 2012 as part of the 19th International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC. The conference is expected to draw 25,000 people, including politicians, scientists and activists, as well as some of the estimated 34 million people living with HIV who will tell their stories. (Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Cambodian woman who is living with HIV lays on a bed inside her home at Batty district in Takeo province, some 70 kms south of Phnom Penh on July 23, 2012. About 34 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2010, according to the World Health Organization. (Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Syrian men line up to buy bread at the only open bakery left in the city of Al-Bueda on July 23, 2012. Syrian troops were locked in fighting with armed rebels in parts of Damascus and the second city Aleppo, monitors said, as Arab nations offered President Bashar al-Assad a “safe exit” if he gave up power. (Antonio Pampliega/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Afghan people walk at a traditional food market in Mazar-i Sharif on July 22, 2012 during the Islamic month of Ramadan. Throughout the month devout Muslims must abstain from food, drink and sex from dawn until sunset when they break the fast with the Iftar meal. (Qais Usyan/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Torchbearer 065 Marlon Devonish carries the Olympic Flame at Crystal Palace stadium on the Torch Relay leg between Bromley (London Borough) and Croydon (London Borough) during Day 66 of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay on July 23, 2012 in London, England. (LOCOG via Getty Images)
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- Soldiers jump as they take part during a military training session in muddy water at a military base in Jinan, Shandong province, July 23, 2012. (China Daily/Reuters)
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- A flock of 500 sheep were burned during a wildfire on July 23, 2012 in Darnius near La Junquera (Girona), close to the Spanish-French border. Three people were killed as winds whipped up a wildfire that raged out of control in northeastern Spain, forcing thousands of people to take refuge indoors, officials said. (Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire on July 23, 2012 in Ller near La Junquera (Girona), close to the Spanish-French border. (Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Anti-government protesters clash with police during a demonstration against the state of the nation address (SONA) of Philippine President Benigno Aquino near the legislature building in Manila on July 23, 2012. Aquino was to deliver his annual “state of the nation” speech to Congress on July 23, with legislators hoping he will tackle an escalating South China Sea dispute. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An anti-government protester raises a clinched fist next to a portrait of Philippine President Benigno Aquino during a demonstration against his state of the nation address (SONA) near the legislature building in Manila on July 23, 2012. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Several broken gravestones lay on the grass on July 22, 2012 in the local Jewish cemetery of Kaposvar, about 200 km south-west from Budapest as 57 graves were desecrated by vandals. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)
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- This picture taken on July 22, 2012 shows a farmer trying to save his pigs from his flooded farm in the outskirts of Chongqing. More torrential rain was forecast in China’s northeast and southwest, after at least 10 other people were killed since July 20, while landslides in southwestern Sichuan province resulted in six deaths, provincial flood control and drought relief officials reported. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)
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Colorado massacre suspect silent in first court hearing
Mary Slosson and Chris Francescani
Reuters
12:16 p.m. EDT, July 23, 2012
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) – The man accused of killing a dozen people in a Colorado movie theater during a showing of the new “Batman” film made his first appearance in court on Monday, sitting silently in a red jailhouse jump suit and with his hair dyed bright red.
James Eagan Holmes, 24, who was detained immediately after the massacre early on Friday morning, appeared groggy and emotionless during the brief hearing, looking straight ahead and occasionally closing his eyes. He was shackled at the wrists and ankles.
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