LITTLE ROCK — QUOTE OF THE DAY “Who the hell needs

armor-piercing

bullets except you

guys in battle?” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, when asked about President Barack Obama’s gun-control proposal while speaking to U.S.

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for terror support

CHICAGO - A Chicago businessman was sentenced to 14 years in prison Thursday for providing material support to overseas terrorism, including a Pakistani group whose 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India, left more than 160 people dead.

Tahawwur Rana did not address the court before U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber imposed the sentence and did not react afterward.

But his defense attorneys said the judge was right to reject prosecutors’ arguments that Rana deserved a stiffer sentence because the charges were related to terrorism.

Prosecutors had sought a sentence of up to 30 years.

Jurors in 2011 convicted Rana of providing support for the Pakistani group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and for supporting a never-carriedout plot to attack a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005. The cartoons angered many Muslims because pictures of the prophet are prohibited in Islam.

But jurors cleared Rana of the third and most serious charge of involvement in the three-day rampage in Mumbai, India’s largest city.

Theater reopens;

slain remembered

AURORA, Colo. - The Colorado cinema where 12 people were killed and dozens injured in a shooting rampage nearly six months ago reopened Thursday with a remembrance ceremony and private screening for survivors.

Several victims’ families boycotted what they called a callous public-relations ploy by the theater’s owner, Cinemark. They contended the Texas-based company - which has been publicly silent since the July 20 shooting - didn’t ask them what should happen to the theater. They said Cinemark e-mailed them an invitation to Thursday’s reopening just two days after they struggled through Christmas without their loved ones.

Others, like Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan, said the event was part of the healing process and that many residents wanted to see the theater back up and running.

James Holmes, a former neuroscience doctoral student, is charged with 166 felony counts, mostly murder and attempted murder, in the July 20 shootings at the former Century 16 - now the Century Aurora. A judge ordered Holmes to stand trial, but he won’t enter a plea until March.

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