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2012 Aurora theater shooting. / 39.7059; -104.8206. On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, United States, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. Dressed in tactical clothing, 24-year-old James Eagan Holmes set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with ...
Newark ( / ˈnjuːərk / NEW-ərk, [24] locally [nʊəɹk]) [25] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, the seat of Essex County, and a principal city of the New York metropolitan area. [26] [27] [28] As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 311,549.
The Last of Us is an American post-apocalyptic drama television series created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann for HBO. Based on the video game franchise developed by Naughty Dog, the series is set twenty years into a pandemic caused by a mass fungal infection, which causes its hosts to transform into zombie-like creatures and collapses society.
Newark Riverfront Park is a park and promenade being developed in phases along the Passaic River in Newark, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the Essex County Park System. The park, expected to be 3 miles (4.8 km) long and encompass 30.5 acres (12.3 ha), [2] is being created from brownfield and greyfield sites along the river, which ...
The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising, [1] took place in the Watts neighborhood and its surrounding areas of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, a 21-year-old African-American man, was pulled over for drunken driving. [2] [3] [4] After he failed a field sobriety ...
West Side High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school complex in Newark, in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Newark Public Schools . As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 609 students and 46.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ...
The paper changed its name to The Standard in 1977 but the name East African Standard was revived later. It was sold to Kenyan investors in 1995. In 2004 the name was changed back to The Standard. It is the main rival to Kenya's largest newspaper, the Daily Nation. In 1989, at a time when Kenya was going into multi-party era, the Standard Group ...
The newspaper was founded in 1946 as The Jewish News. [2] [4] Merging in 1947 with the Jewish Times of Newark, it kept the Jewish News name. [2] [5] In 1988, it was renamed the MetroWest Jewish News. [2] [6] [7] In 1997, under the direction of Associate Publisher Amir Cohen, Editor David Twersky and Managing Editor Debra Rubin, it acquired The ...