Monday,  July 23, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 009 • 21 of 27 •  Other Editions

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• 5. CANDIDATES BACK ON THE STUMP
• Obama speaks at the National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Reno, Nev., at 3:35 p.m. and Romney holds a small business round table in Costa Mesa, Calif., at 1:30 p.m.
• 6. DEADLY DAY IN IRAQ WORST IN 2012
• A wave of bombings kills scores in Iraq, just days after an al-Qaida leader warned that the militant group is regrouping there.
• 7. LONG-DELAYED TRIAL FOR DREW PETERSON BEGINS
• At 10 a.m., jury selection gets under way in the trial of the former suburban Chi

cago police officer charged with drowning his third wife, Kathleen Savio, in 2004. He's also a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson.
• 8. SINISTER. DISTURBING. CREEPY. FRIGHTENING
• The official mascots of London's Olympic Games -- Wenlock and Mandeville -- have been called all those things, but organizers are hoping to tack on a more positive title: merchandising magic.
• 9. WHO THE BIG WINNERS WERE AT TEEN CHOICE AWARDS
• "The Twilight Saga," the supernatural franchise, added to its surfboard-shaped trophy collection with two more -- its 40th and 41st since 2008. Taylor Swift picked up her 20th trophy -- the most ever won by a female artist.
• 10. EPIC COLLAPSE COSTS AUSSIE CLARET JUG
• Going for his first major championship at age 32, Adam Scott bogeyed his final four holes, handing golf's oldest championship -- the British Open -- to Ernie Els in one of the great folds in golfing history.


AP News in Brief
Colo. massacre suspect heads to 1st court date; so far refuses to talk about attack

• AURORA, Colo. (AP) -- As the suspected gunman in the Colorado theater massacre heads to his first court appearance, authorities have disclosed that he is refusing to cooperate and that it could take months to learn what prompted the horrific attack on midnight moviegoers at a Batman film premiere.
• James Holmes has been held in solitary confinement at an Arapahoe County detention facility but will be moved Monday to a next-door courtroom for a 9:30 a.m.

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