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After school shooting, Conn. debates mental health
Connecticut lawmakers on Tuesday began reviewing mental health care following the deadly Newtown school shooting, even though they and the public have ...
Conn. panel begins task of responding to Newtown
A panel charged by Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy with recommending a broad range of state policy changes after the deadly Newtown school shooting ...
Rival Conn. casino tribes forge alliance
At sunrise one day last spring, the leaders of the Connecticut tribes that own two of the world's largest casinos stood together at the site of a 1637 ...
Thousands rally against stricter gun control in US
Gun advocates — some with rifles slung across shoulders or pistols holstered at the hip — have rallied peacefully in state capitals nationwide against ...
House approves $50.5 billion in Sandy aid
More than 10 weeks after Superstorm Sandy brutalized parts of the heavily populated Northeast, the House approved $50.5 billion in emergency relief ...
Newtown parents want police to stay at schools
Since the elementary school massacre in her hometown, Sarah Findley has found herself driving by her children's schools in Newtown, checking to make ...
Conn. moves cautiously on guns in Newtown's wake
A month after the Newtown school tragedy, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is moving cautiously on gun control in Connecticut, a relatively liberal Northeastern ...
Wounded ex-Rep. Giffords meets with Conn. families
Just days before the second anniversary of a mass shooting that critically injured Gabrielle Giffords, the former congresswoman was in Newtown meeting ...
School offers fresh start for Sandy Hook kids
Sarah Caron made her son his favorite pancakes for breakfast and walked the second-grader to the top of the driveway for the school bus. "I hugged him ...
School starts at new building for Sandy Hook kids
For her son's first day of school since last month's massacre at his Sandy Hook Elementary, Sarah Caron tried to make Thursday as normal as possible.
On school tour, Newtown parents thank teachers
On a tour Wednesday of his daughter's new school, Vinny Alvarez took a moment to thank her third-grade teacher, who protected the class from a ...
A week after school massacre, new details emerge
As the nation paused for the one-week anniversary of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, new details emerged Friday about the gunman, Adam ...
Bells toll for victims one week after shooting
The chiming of bells reverberated throughout Newtown on Friday, commemorating one week since the crackle of gunfire in a schoolhouse killed 20 ...
Conn. shooting victims remembered worldwide
People around the country and world paused for a moment Friday morning to memorialize the 26 victims of the massacre a week ago at an elementary ...
Newtown first responders carry heavy burdens
While the people of Newtown do their best to cope with loss and preserve the memories of their loved ones, another class of residents is also finding ...
Conn. gunman had hundreds of rounds of ammunition
The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage was carrying an arsenal of hundreds of rounds of especially deadly ammunition — enough to kill just ...
Obama grieves, promises to use power to help
He spoke for a nation in sorrow, but the slaughter of all those little boys and girls turned the commander in chief into another parent in grief, ...
Routine morning, then shots and unthinkable terror
Inside the four-bedroom colonial set on a small rise, Nancy Lanza was already dead. But it was early yet, and it would be hours before her body was ...
Gunman kills 26 at Conn. school, commits suicide
A man killed his mother at their home and then opened fire Friday inside an elementary school, massacring 26 people, including 20 children, as ...
Hundreds pack Conn. church for vigil after rampage
Twenty-six candles — one for each of the victims — flickered on the altar Friday as hundreds of grief-stricken residents gathered for a vigil in ...
Tearful Obama calls for action after shooting
A tearful President Barack Obama said Friday he grieved first as a father about the massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, declaring, "Our ...
Cuomo says he's 'optimistic' on Sandy aid
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo emerged Monday from meetings with top Obama administration officials and congressional leaders "optimistic" that Congress ...
5 states to increase class time in some schools
Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer. Five states announced ...
The reward for surviving Sandy may be higher taxes
Superstorm Sandy may have one more nasty surprise still to come: higher taxes. The math is simple and cruel. The storm left fewer properties standing, ...
Storm-wracked states prepare for Election Day
Election officials were ordering generators, moving voting locations and figuring out how to transport poll workers displaced from coastal areas as ...