Schools and students are targets worldwide
A half-day before a young gunman committed one of the deadliest school attacks in U.S. history, a Chinese farmer took a kitchen knife and hacked at ...

Newtown: A special town shattered by tragedy
At the crossroads that marks the center of this three-century-old New England postcard town stands a flagpole that's a kind of barometer. Every day, ...

Sports world shaken by Connecticut school shooting
Oklahoma City forward Kevin Durant wrote "Newtown CT" on both of his shoes. Cleveland Cavaliers coach Byron Scott struggled with his composure as he ...

Schools eye plans, calm parents after Conn. attack
The mass killing inside a Connecticut elementary school has educators across the country reviewing their security measures, reassuring parents and ...

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 ...

School shooting postpones Cruise premiere in Pa.
The U.S. premiere of the Tom Cruise action movie "Jack Reacher" is being postponed following the deadly Connecticut school shooting.

Brother of Conn. gunman wrongly cited as shooter
Not long after Friday's shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school, media outlets began reporting the gunman's identity as 24-year-old Ryan ...

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 ...

Connecticut school shooting revives gun debate
A lone police cruiser outside Columbine High School was the only outward reaction Friday to an even deadlier attack at a Connecticut elementary school
AP source: Suspect killed mother at their home
A law enforcement official says that the 20-year-old suspect in the Connecticut school shootings killed his mother at their home Friday and then drove ...

Essay: Americans, united in horror for a moment
Now and then, thanks to the strange intimacy of technology, there are times in modern American lives when our most momentous and harrowing experiences ...

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 ...
Some of the deadliest school shootings in the US
A gunman at a Connecticut elementary school killed more than two dozen people, including children, on Friday. Here is a look at some other recent ...
AP: Va student expelled for election racial uproar
One student has been expelled and three others are being punished for their roles in a racially charged uproar on a Virginia college campus the night ...

Court ruling on Ill. gun ban sets stage for fight
Backers of Illinois' ban on concealed weapons vowed Wednesday to fight for continued controls on gun possession, a day after a federal appeals court ...
9 Maine students suspended over pot-laced cookies
Marijuana-laced cookies taken by a student to a Maine high school on a day ethics and values were being discussed have sickened some classmates.
PSU won't pursue discipline for sorority photos
Penn State president Rodney Erickson admonished students who wore costumes and held offensive signs in photographs circulated on the Internet, but ...

Colo. shooting suspect: Brief romance, few friends
It didn't take long for suspicions to surface at a Colorado university that the man who just hours earlier shot up a midnight movie was a student who ...

Review: DJ Baba Brinkman mixes Darwin and dating
Here's some advice you wouldn't expect before a theater outing: Don't turn off your cell phone at Baba Brinkman's new off-Broadway show "Ingenious ...
Cadet quits, cites overt religion at West Point
A cadet quitting West Point less than six months before graduation says he could no longer be part of a culture that promotes prayers and religious ...
Ky. school shooter seeks to take back guilty plea
A man who killed three of his classmates at a Kentucky High School in 1997 is fighting to take back his guilty plea and get a trial, arguing that his ...

4 Hofstra basketball players charged in burglaries
Four Hofstra University basketball players were arrested on burglary charges stemming from dormitory room break-ins, police said Friday.
AP: Exchange student sponsor out over abuse claims
An organization has lost its government designation to bring foreign exchange students to the United States after facing allegations of mismanagement ...

Pot legalization no free ride to smoke on campus
Young voters helped pass laws legalizing marijuana in Washington and Colorado, but many still won't be able to light up. Most universities have codes ...