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A Thursday report reveals more details on the academic life of James Egan Holmes, alleged Colorado shooter, who was reportedly rejected as a candidate for the neuroscience Ph.D. program at the University of Alabama Birmingham. According to reports, although Holmes showed an impressive track record, officials in the admissions expressed uneasiness about his personality.

Joe South, singer and songwriter who delivered the hit song “Walk a mile in my shoes,” in the 1970s died on Wednesday in his home in Buford, Ga. South was 72.

Few have the ability to speak with such conviction, preciseness and affability as former president Bill Clinton. Wednesday night, Clinton delivered a speech that was classic Clinton, as Reuters describes Clinton’s speech described Obama’s achievements more justly in 49 minutes “than the rest of the speakers at the Democratic Convention could muster in the 11-1/2 hours that preceded him.”