Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Holmes jury keeps execution as option as sentencing advances
• Obama gets tough on emissions
• Comic Amy Schumer, Sen. Schumer call for better gun control
• Darren Wilson opens up a year after Michael Brown’s death
• Farmer visited by Obama is now the face of California’s drought
• Cooler weather helps crews battling California wildfire
• Ex-con accused of killing police officer turns self in
• Jury keeps death penalty as option for Colorado movie gunman Holmes
• Families of Newtown massacre victims in $1.5 million settlement
• Suspected killer of Memphis officer surrenders after manhunt

Holmes jury keeps execution as option as sentencing advances Posted: 03 Aug 2015 03:42 PM PDT Jurors in the Colorado theater shooting trial declined to rule out the death penalty Monday as they move toward sentencing James Holmes, finding his defense failed to persuade them to show him mercy.

Obama gets tough on emissions Posted: 03 Aug 2015 08:43 AM PDT Yahoo News takes a closer look at President Barack Obama's toughest plan yet to combat climate change.

Comic Amy Schumer, Sen. Schumer call for better gun control Posted: 03 Aug 2015 12:13 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Comedian Amy Schumer spoke tearfully of two women who were shot to death during a screening of her movie, "Trainwreck," and asked lawmakers Monday to support a gun control bill sponsored by her second cousin, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer.

Darren Wilson opens up a year after Michael Brown’s death Posted: 03 Aug 2015 06:53 AM PDT A year after fatally shooting Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in Ferguson, Mo., the former police officer reflects on a year spent in relative seclusion.

Farmer visited by Obama is now the face of California’s drought Posted: Little has changed in the 17 months since the president toured Joe Del Bosque's parched fields.

Cooler weather helps crews battling California wildfire Posted: 03 Aug 2015 03:17 PM PDT Fire officials called for thousands of evacuations as numerous homes remained threatened.

Ex-con accused of killing police officer turns self in Posted: 03 Aug 2015 03:57 PM PDT MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — An ex-con accused of fatally shooting a police officer who interrupted a drug deal turned himself in Monday, ending an intensive two-day manhunt, a spokesman for a U.S. attorney said.

Jury keeps death penalty as option for Colorado movie gunman Holmes Posted: 03 Aug 2015 02:00 PM PDT James Holmes, the Colorado movie massacre gunman, could face the death penalty after jurors found on Monday that aggravating factors including the cruel nature of his crimes counted for more than mitigating ones such as mental illness. The panel of nine women and three men will now hear from victims of the July 2012 rampage at a midnight screening of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises." They will then deliberate on whether the 27-year-old shooter should be executed by lethal injection. Holmes, who killed 12 people and wounded 70, showed no reaction as the verdicts were delivered, staring straight ahead, hands in pockets.

Families of Newtown massacre victims in $1.5 million settlement Posted: 03 Aug 2015 01:55 PM PDT The families of 14 people killed in the 2012 massacre at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School, and two survivors reached a $1.5 million legal settlement on Monday against the gunman's mother's estate, according to court records. The families of victims and two school employees who survived the attack will each receive a $93,750 share of an insurance policy on the Newtown, Connecticut, home where Nancy Lanza lived with her son, gunman Adam Lanza, according to filings at a Bethel, Connecticut, probate court. The 20-year-old gunman began his rampage on Dec. 14, 2012, by shooting and killing his mother with a Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifle before driving to his former elementary school, where he gunned down 20 first-graders and six educators.

Suspected killer of Memphis officer surrenders after manhunt Posted: 03 Aug 2015 04:29 PM PDT By Tim Ghianni NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - A man suspected of fatally shooting a police officer in Memphis over the weekend surrendered to authorities on Monday after an extensive manhunt and being placed on the state's most-wanted fugitives list, the sheriff's office said. Tremaine Wilbourn is suspected of shooting Officer Sean Bolton, 33, multiple times during a scuffle after the officer pulled up to a parked car and apparently interrupted a drug deal, Memphis police said. The Shelby County Sheriff's Office said on its Twitter feed that Wilbourn was in custody.

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