Newtown School Shooting

On Thursday, December 12, two days before the one-year anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, a local group will hold a vigil in Washington, D.C. to remember victims of gun violence.

Jessie Lewis, a 6-year-old boy killed in the massacre in Sandy Hook Elementary School shouted for his classmates to run while the gunman paused to reload and was shot moments later, the boy’s mother said Friday.

When the old Sandy Hook Elementary School is demolished, building materials will be pulverized on site and metal will be taken away and melted down in an effort to eliminate nearly every trace of the building where a gunman killed 26 people last December. Contractors also will be required to sign confidentiality agreements and workers will guard th...

A New York City woman who posed as the aunt of a child killed in the massacre at a Sandy Hook Elementary School last December was sentenced Tuesday to 8 months in prison and two years’ probation. Alba is required to report to prison in six weeks. The family of 6-year-old shooting victim James Mattioli appeared at the sentencing. Mark......

Four parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are among the people chosen for a commission that will decide how to memorialize the victims.

National Security Agency employees improperly eavesdropped on the phone calls of girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands, wives and spouses and engaged in other “intentional” abuses of their authority on 12 occasions since 2003, according to a newly released letter by the agency’s inspector general.

Robert Nute was honored in Newtown on Wednesday as the national winner of the Smart Telecommunicator Awards. He was among 12 finalists chosen from hundreds of nominations.

A moment of silence was held before the game and the names of the victims of the shooting scrolled across the scoreboard before the first pitch.

The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission The group is also recommending a ban on all armor-piercing and incendiary bullets of any caliber.

Facing mounting pressure from the Governor and legislative leaders, members of a bi-partisan gun safety committee released competing proposals to toughen the state’s gun laws after the Newtown tragedy.

Several players, including, Andrew Ference, Rich Peverley, Dougie Hamilton, Daniel Paille and Chris Bourque, along with head coach Claude Julien, will attend the invitation-only event.

Starting tonight, PBS will air a week-long series of specials entitled “After Newtown” looking at gun laws, mental illness and school security.

The original site for the Sandy Hook Run for the Families in Danbury could accommodate 10,000 participants, but the interest quickly exceeded that.