Conn. Panel To Decide Whether To Make Sandy Hook 911 Calls Public
The full nine-member Freedom of Information Commission is holding a hearing Wednesday afternoon before issuing its final decision.
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The full nine-member Freedom of Information Commission is holding a hearing Wednesday afternoon before issuing its final decision.
Schools in 36 districts across Connecticut will receive $5 million in state grants to improve security in response to the Newtown school shootings, Malloy announced Wednesday.
Monday's onslaught at a single building at the highly secure Navy Yard unfolded about 8:20 a.m. in the heart of the nation's capital, less than four miles from the White House and two miles from the Capitol.
Activists from Newtown, Conn., where 26 people were fatally shot last December, are headed to Washington to again lobby for gun control a day after 12 people were killed in a shooting rampage in the capital.
Newtown, Conn., was the scene of a horrific school shooting last year, but on Sunday, a group of middle school students from the town experienced something dreams are made of.
A street in Queens was renamed Saturday to honor a little boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn.
A student at a Jersey Shore elementary school will likely face charges in connection with an alleged plot against his fellow students.
Some schools in Westchester County will have armed officers when students return to class next week.
Unlike previous years, Monday's annual Labor Day parade in Newtown, Conn., featured no sounds of sirens or musket fire.
A street in Queens will be renamed in honor of Benjamin Wheeler, 6, who was gunned down inside his classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012.
As the deadline to tear down the school draws near, officials are looking for former students who might remember exactly where the time capsule was buried.
The Sandy Hook Elementary School students are being bussed to the neighboring town of Monroe, where a former middle school was renovated for them shortly after the shootings.
Enfield Police Chief Carl Sferrazza said each retired officer has decades of police experience and was given a physical and psychological exam before being hired as school security.
Connecticut House Speaker Brendan Sharkey said the popular video game, "Call Of Duty," features the Bushmaster AR-15 semi-automatic rifle - the same assault weapon used by Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook assacre that left 20 first graders and six educators dead.
The drill at Liberty Middle School is designed to test the response of a dozen law enforcement agencies to a situation similar to last year's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Gun rights groups are staging "Starbucks Appreciation Day" to voice their approval of the coffee chain's stand supporting gun owners who wish to openly display their weapons.
The allocation calls for $281,000 to be given to each of the families of the 26 children and school educators killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year.
The distinguished panel is headed by Alan Nevice, a now-retired federal judge, who said Thursday's meeting will decide how to allocate 70 percent of the funds. Each of the families who lost a family member in the massacre will get an even share of the money.
The New York Yankees are hosting about 4,000 residents of Newtown, Conn., during their game against the Baltimore Orioles.
Nearly seven months after the Newtown elementary school massacre, investigators have continued to piece together how police responded.
Newtown's first selectman is asking organizations and individuals to refrain from holding any more special events in the town as it attempts to heal from December's shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary school.
Parts of Connecticut's law addressing the Newtown school massacre, including the creation of new credentials to purchase long guns and ammunition, took effect Monday.
Beginning Monday, people can begin applying for new credentials to purchase long guns and ammunition. Such credentials will eventually be required to buy ammo, rifles and shot guns.
The event is part of the gun-control group's 25-state "No More Names" tour, which is part of its campaign to build support for legislation to expand background checks for gun buyers.
A new effort was launched Saturday to remember one of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn.
A Brooklyn woman says her motherly instinct kicked in when a stranger allegedly tried to pull her 4-year-old son away from his grandmother.
The Phillies beat the Mets 3-0 Thursday night to tie the Cubs for the top NL wild card.
Mets first baseman Jared Young was carted off the field in the sixth inning of Thursday night's game against Philadelphia.
A Long Island man has been found competent to stand trial in his ex-girlfriend's 2025 shooting death.
When one Queens man recently spotted a mess near his commuter rail stop in Brooklyn, he took matters into his own hands.
A Brooklyn woman says her motherly instinct kicked in when a stranger allegedly tried to pull her 4-year-old son away from his grandmother.
A Long Island man has been found competent to stand trial in his ex-girlfriend's 2025 shooting death.
When one Queens man recently spotted a mess near his commuter rail stop in Brooklyn, he took matters into his own hands.
Trauma doctors are warning parents who buy their kids e-bikes or electric scooters that injury numbers are surging, along with the severity of the injuries.
A carriage driver whose horse died in Central Park this summer is now suing the city, saying the horse was poisoned by a plant.
Fire departments were hard at work in Paterson, New Jersey, and Fairfield County, Connecticut, due to flash flooding on Sunday morning.
Rainy weather makes a return to the New York City area this weekend.
After a week filled with periods of storminess and high humidity, a calmer and drier weather pattern is settling in for the holiday weekend.
Severe storms returned to the Tri-State Area, making it a soggy Thursday morning.
The rain returns Tuesday with the possibility of severe storms and downpours that can cause flash flooding in the New York City area.
Some people in Keyport, New Jersey, claim the site of a former aircraft manufacturing plant is to blame for a growing number of cancer diagnoses, but the state says otherwise.
A truck carrying a boom crane tipped over in River Vale, New Jersey, on Thursday, causing the crane to land on two houses, slicing one in half.
Family and the Bridgeton, N.J., community held a vigil Wednesday, marking seven years since Dulce Maria Alavez's disappearance.
A New Jersey Republican county chair has been charged with pointing a weapon at another driver in what state police call a road rage incident.
The missing person is a 64-year-old man from Southampton, Pennsylvania, who is set to be married in two months.
A Long Island man has been found competent to stand trial in his ex-girlfriend's 2025 shooting death.
A parent, an athletic trainer and security staff jumped into action Wednesday when a referee suddenly collapsed at a girl's junior varsity soccer game on Long Island.
A judge has ruled that a Long Island man is competent to stand trial for the 2025 shooting death of his ex-girlfriend.
Trauma doctors are warning parents who buy their kids e-bikes or electric scooters that injury numbers are surging, along with the severity of the injuries.
Trauma doctors are warning parents who buy their kids e-bikes or electric scooters that injury numbers are surging, along with the severity of the injuries. CBS News New York's Carolyn Gusoff reports.
A carriage driver whose horse died in Central Park this summer is now suing the city, saying the horse was poisoned by a plant.
The plan to redesign a stretch of Park Avenue has changed a bit based on community feedback.
Presidents, prime ministers and diplomats from around the world will be in town, making it a very high-profile event.
Seventeen new modular public bathrooms are being installed across New York City as part of a yearlong pilot program.
Lawmakers are targeting what are often called "e-motos," which are devices being sold as e-bikes and e-scooters but can go much faster than what's legal on city streets.
A second person has died in the Legionnaires' disease cluster in the South Bronx.
Some people in Keyport, New Jersey, claim the site of a former aircraft manufacturing plant is to blame for a growing number of cancer diagnoses, but the state says otherwise.
Affordable Care Act recipients in 30 states are set to receive the $500 checks starting in October. Here's why.
One person has died and a total of five people have been sickened by Legionnaires' disease in the Bronx.
As of late August, the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund has received 112,000 claims, awarding more than $18 billion.
The Feast of San Gennaro is filling New York City's Little Italy with faith, music, games and many treats starting Thursday.
The iconic Peanuts character Snoopy is getting a new look for the 100th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.
Aaron Rowe, Beoga, Lukas Graham and Finneas all released statements Tuesday on Instagram saying they were withdrawing from Ed Sheeran's tour.
The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards celebrated the best in television and streaming from the past year on Monday. See the full list of winners and nominees.
Performer Macklemore is being dropped from Ed Sheeran's Loop tour after making on-stage statements that some found controversial.
The Phillies beat the Mets 3-0 Thursday night to tie the Cubs for the top NL wild card.
Mets first baseman Jared Young was carted off the field in the sixth inning of Thursday night's game against Philadelphia.
Knicks fans were greeted with 2026-27 ticket price sticker shock earlier this week, only to have Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. later admit a mistake was made.
Pete Alonso homered against the Mets, a solo shot in the first inning that sent the Orioles to a 7-1 victory Wednesday night.
Luke Keaschall went 3 for 5 and scored from second base on Victor Caratini's game-ending single in the 13th inning to send the Minnesota Twins past the New York Yankees 5-4.
The People's Theatre now has its first permanent home in more than 15 years, thanks to help from theater legends from the neighborhood, like Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Brooklyn Greenway Initiative's 1.8-acre native plant sanctuary marks 10 years at a site where historians believe hundreds of human remains still lie
At a Bay Ridge school, students who were born years after the attacks are learning about Sept. 11 through the stories of parents, teachers and first responders who lived through it.
Former Mets players from the 2001 season were at Ladder 25 on the Upper West Side on Tuesday.
Grammy and Emmy Award-winning musician Lizzo made a surprise visit to meet Brooklyn students and debut her new children's book.
People dressed in elaborate headgear and paraded up Fifth Avenue for New York City's Easter Sunday tradition.
The Halloween tradition strolled through Manhattan's East Village on Sunday, with furry friends dressed in colorful costumes.
A suspect was taken into custody after an attack on Pearl Street Mall in Boulder on June 1 in which there were 15 people and a dog who were victims. The suspect threw Molotov cocktails that burned some of the victims, who were part of a march for Israeli hostages.
The annual Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival was held in Manhattan on April 20, 2025.
A look back at the esteemed personalities who've left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.
Police say someone tossed a heavy object off a Bronx building Thursday, hitting and injuring a pedestrian below.
A Brooklyn mother says her 4-year-old son was almost kidnapped by a stranger outside a McDonald's earlier this week. CBS News New York's Naveen Dhaliwal reports.
New renderings show the future plan to transform 11 blocks of Midtown into a greener, more people-friendly space.
We're getting a first look at a soon-to-be-published book about Princess Diana, written by her brother. Holly Williams reports.
Patrick Clancy and his new wife will speak out for the first time in an exclusive "60 Minutes" interview Sunday. Shanelle Kaul has a preview.
