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By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Damon walked onto the set of "The Martian" one morning to find Ridley Scott speaking into multiple walkie-talkies and directing an army of camera operators. "He was shooting four cameras at a time. I was skeptical about it, and each frame is, like, a Ridley…

By JIM VERTUNO and EMILY SCHMALL, Associated Press SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Authorities have reviewed video from inside the small-town Texas church where a gunman killed more than two dozen people, including footage that shows the assailant shooting victims in the head during Sunday services, a U.S. official said Wednesday. The official's account of the…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT, JIM VERTUNO and WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — The gunman who killed more than two dozen at a small-town Texas church briefly escaped from a mental health facility in New Mexico in 2012, police reports indicated. The reports also noted that Devin Patrick Kelley was once caught trying to…

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Doctors at one of the hospitals that received people injured in the Texas church shooting said their eight patients, who included children, were calm and brave. Dr. Kenneth Kingdon, noting that any trauma patient will be in shock, told a news conference Tuesday that the patients brought to Connally Memorial Medical…

By JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — The gunman who killed 26 people at a small-town Texas church sent threatening text messages to his mother-in-law before the attack, which appeared to have been driven by domestic tensions, authorities said Monday. A day after the deadliest mass shooting in state history, investigators also revealed…