Bells Toll In Newtown 26 Times For Victims Of Sandy Hook Shooting
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy gathered with other officials on the steps of the town hall as the bell rang in memory of each life lost at Sandy Hook Elementary School one week ago.
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy gathered with other officials on the steps of the town hall as the bell rang in memory of each life lost at Sandy Hook Elementary School one week ago.
The most powerful gun lobby in the nation, the National Rifle Association, is thumbing its nose at calls for stricter gun control laws. Instead, it says Congress should put an armed guard in every school in America -- right now.
The funerals for 7-year-old Grace McDonnell, 6-year-old Olivia Engel, 6-year-old Dylan Hockley, school psychologist Mary Sherlach and behavioral therapist Rachel D'Avino were held Friday.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Friday that their searches would be similar to those being used to spot terrorist chatter online.
One week after the mass shootings that killed 26 people at a Connecticut elementary school, the nation's largest gun-rights lobby said the solution to preventing further attacks like the one in Newtown is not with gun control.
In the week since the horrific school massacre, a generous outpouring of offers to help have been pouring into Newtown from all over the country.
"Vicki loved the Yankees — that was part of her eulogy," Soto's cousin told the New York Daily News. "No one in the family reached out, so (Jeter) must have heard about it and ... reached out."
Twenty first-graders and six school employees were fatally shot inside the school. Here is a closer look at the victims of the tragedy.
Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, assisted by police, raided Riverview Sales at 4 Prospect Hill Road in East Windsor on Thursday evening.
Violent video games are drawing new scrutiny in the wake of the Newtown elementary school tragedy. Some gamers are already giving them up … voluntarily.
The Obama administration will push to tighten gun laws in response to last week's schoolhouse massacre in Connecticut, Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday.
Students Jesse Lewis, Catherine Hubbard, Benjamin Wheeler and Allison Wyatt will all be laid to rest. Teachers Lauren Rousseau and Anne Marie Murphy will also be remembered.
In the wake of the Newtown massacre, there are reports that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is negotiating new gun laws that could be voted on within days.
Lawmakwers in Hartford have okayed a quarter of a billion dollars in budget cuts to pare down the deficit. But in the wake of the Newtown massacre, they have steered clear of any cuts to nonprofits which provide care for the mentally challenged.
The mourners waited in a slow-moving line, some for more than an hour, in the frigid air outside Clark Associates Funeral Home, to pay respects to 52-year-old Anne Marie Murphy.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Wednesday that gun control is among the issues that must be examined to prevent tragedies like the deadly elementary school shootings in Newtown, Conn.
A neighborhood plumber said in a published report this week that Newtown, Conn., gunman Adam Lanza spent his days in the basement of the house he shared with his mother, playing violent video games amid posters showcasing military equipment.
Obama is asking a team led by Vice President Joe Biden to offer "concrete proposals'' to curb gun violence no later than January, in the aftermath of the horrific massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.
Cruz stopped for a moment, his eyes becoming watery: "You never go through some circumstances like this. This was definitely the toughest by far."
For the third day this week, funerals and wakes are being held for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
A large American flag hung near the doorway of the funeral home and luminaries spelling out the word 'hope' were set up on the lawn.
In the wake of the tragedy in Connecticut, it is clear that this nation needs to reform its gun laws and a number of other needs now.
Officials urged people on Wednesday to be careful about donating to charities that claim to benefit victims of Friday's Newtown shootings.
Mental health providers said they won't be able to sustain any more funding cuts and some may be forced to stop providing critical services to those most vulnerable.
Stephen Barton, one of the survivors of the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting, happens to live near Newtown, Conn., and is on a mission to make a difference.
