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El Paso County District Attorney Dan May, center, exits a courtroom during a hearing for Robert Dear on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Dear, who killed three people in an attack on a Colorado abortion clinic, halted court proceedings by demanding that he be allowed to fire his public defender and represent himself. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP) MAGS OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT The Gazette File photos

Parenthood clinic wants to be his own attorney. the judge ordinaries him to undergo a mental example. robert dear interrupted the hearing yesterday, at one point asking the judge, do i sound like i have no intelligence? during his first court appears the admit killer called himself a, quote, warriors for babies. alicia, robert dear says he will not cooperate with any mental exam? >> reporter: thats right, john, and he is not offered much cooperation at all in the last two of the last three court...

I invoke my constitutional right to defend myself. dear is currently represented by dan king of the colorado public defenders office. the always led the aurora theater shoot can case -- the defense team there. dear will be examined at the same facility also the convicted aurora shooter. heres the d.a. >> judge is asking to confirm that the defendant knows what is going on in the classroom, understanding the proceedings -- in the classroom, understanding and is able to cooperate with his attorney...

Thats progress. and from mashable, toronto cab driver bangs on an uber car, is dragged 70 feet in an anti-uber protest. the man confronted the uber driver for allegedly having no insurance. luckily no one was hurt during the incident but the toronto taxi drivers are protesting what they see as unfair business practices by the popular car service app which threatens the citys taxi industry and is causing taxi drivers everywhere some consternation. in india tempers flaring, indiana, rather, bi...

Its two minutes until the top of the hour. heres whats happening today. the feds have a trove of new evidence in the carve san bernardino terrorist syed farook. this as we learn his wife may have been an operative who was radicalized overseas before moving to the u.s. robert dear expected to be formally charged with murder today. hes accused of gunning down three people at a colorado clinic last month. rahm emanuel holding a special city council meeting on police accountability. time for the...

She fell 130 feet to her death. prosecutors save he wanted to collect nearly $5 million in life insurance. a man accused of killing three people at a planned parenthood clinic robert dear asked as least one person for directions. there is mounting evidence he was concerned about abortion and targeted the clinic. jenna: the terrorist attack in san bernardino, an emergency room doctor is no stranger to combat zones. he continues to work with the local s.w.a.t. team there. hes an immigrant native o...

Know what their motives are. i think we can tell that there may be some premeditation to a violent act, whether it was this particular workplace violent act or whether it was something larger, but mass shootings are usually premeditated. if you see the acts of robert dear against planned parenthood, adam lanza in the newtown, connecticut, school shootings, you have other mass shootings where there is premeditation. we just dont know if this was politically motivated, and no terrorist group has t...

A grand jury is investigating. robert dears ex-wife says the alleged shooter targeted the organization before. she says dear put glue in the locks of another clinic 20 years ago. her divorce filing describes him as violent and isolated. he is charged with killing three, wounding nine others in an hours long siege in colorado springs last week. the fbi says black friday was the biggest day ever for firearms background checks. the agency processed about 185,000 checks, 5% more than the same day la...

Officers to be tried in the death of freddie gray. he died last year while in police custody. the 12-person jury is made up of eight women and four men, a majority of the jurors are african-american. opening statements should begin as early as this afternoon. well continue to follow the developments on that case out of baltimore. now to chilling new details about the man accused of killing three people at a colorado planned parenthood. police have still not released a motive for fridays rampag...

To be tried in connection with the death of freddie gray. the 25-year-old gray suffered a fatal final injury while in police custody. roughly 125 potential jurors have been questioned in the past two days. we are hearing from the police officer in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old tamir rice. officer timothy loman says he thought the threat was real and active when he shot the boy outside a recreational center last fall. loman says rice had a gun, in fact, rice had a pellet gun. lomans partner s...