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President Obama is now happy to call it "Obamacare." Once a term of derision used mostly by Republicans who have vowed to repeal the new health care law, Obama deployed it in both of his Colorado appearances on Wednesday. "The Affordable Care Act -- also known as Obamacare," Obama said to applause from backers at the University of Denver.

"I actually like the name," he added. "Because I do care -- that's why we fought so hard to make it happen."

Neighbors of the man accused of firing in a packed movie theater outside Denver are facing another day away from home as police work to determine if he booby-trapped his apartment.

Families are being notified by police that their loved ones are among the victims in a deadly shooting rampage in suburban Denver. A sports blogger who recently wrote about surviving a shooting in Canada. A man preparing to celebrate his first wedding anniversary. A young woman whose death announcement brought heartbreak, yet closure, to her family.

NHL writer Jessica Redfield was one of 12 people killed in movie theater shooting. In June, she survived a mall shooting in Toronto.

A masked gunman killed 12 people at a midnight showing of the new Batman movie in a suburb of Denver early on Friday, sparking pandemonium when he hurled a gas canister into the auditorium and opened fire on moviegoers.

A wildfire erupted amid dry, windy weather in Colorado on Monday, and authorities say at least some homes were destroyed in the mountains west of Denver.