Sandy Hook Elementary School

Ten years after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the pain is still just as raw for the families of the victims. Yet even as that community relives its darkest day, people are lifting each other up and remaining deeply connected. On a day of remembrance, recollections of life take flight. “Ten years ago this morning, I walked Catherine to…

They would have been 16 or 17 this year. High school juniors. The children killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012 should have spent this year thinking about college, taking their SATs and getting their driver’s licenses. Maybe attending their first prom. Instead, the families of the 20 students and six educators slain in the mass…

Plainville Police Chief Christopher Vanghele was a Newtown police officer in 2012 and was one of the first three officers to rush into the school after a gunman opened fire.

President Joe Biden is calling again for a ban on so-called assault weapons, calling it “simple common sense.”

Connecticut business owners are teaming up to help spread kindness across the state, while also honoring the lives lost in the Sandy Hook tragedy. Businesses are selling sweatshirts with the words “Be Kind” and 26 flowers that represent the lives lost. All the proceeds go to Sandy Hook Promise. “With the flowers, it’s a reminder that they are still with…

A memorial to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary Tragedy opened to the public in Newtown Sunday.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company were ordered Thursday to pay an extra $473 million to victims’ families and an FBI agent for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax, adding to a nearly $1 billion jury verdict issued last month.

Ten Christmas holidays have come and gone since Jillian Soto-Marino last heard the laughter from her big sister Vicki. “It doesn’t get easier,” she said. On the morning of December 14, 2012, Vicki Soto was preparing to make gingerbread houses with her first grade students at Sandy Hook Elementary School. “They were her kids, and she referred to them as…

A Connecticut mom is marking a major personal milestone. Rebecca Kowalski completed her first half Ironman race this month. She did it to honor her son, Chase Kowalski, who died in the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012. Chase would have turned 17 on Halloween. Nearly 10 years after losing Chase, Rebecca is keeping his legacy alive. “Those are his…

Halloween would have been Chase Kowalski’s 17th birthday. In the nearly 10 years since losing Chase, his family has been doing so much to keep his legacy live.

The nearly $1 billion judgment against Alex Jones for spreading false conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre brought long-sought relief to family members and hopes the eye-popping figure would deter others from broadcasting falsehoods. But Jones has given no signs of tempering his bluster — a headline on his website Thursday blared that the “show trial verdict…

NBC Connecticut’s Ted Koppy and Heidi Voight delve deep into the historic Alex Jones defamation trial verdict.

Infowars host Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $965 million to people who suffered from his lies about the Sandy Hook school massacre.

Plaintiffs hope the verdict sets a precedent to offer future protection for other families of mass shooting victims.

A Waterbury jury Wednesday awarded 15 plaintiffs in the defamation lawsuit against Alex Jones a total of $965 million in compensatory and emotional distress damages for the harm caused to them by the Jones’ Sandy Hook hoax conspiracy claims. Here is what the jury awarded each of the plaintiffs in the case against Alex Jones: Bill Aldenberg: $90 million Jacqueline…

Infowars host Alex Jones was ordered to pay $965 million to law enforcement and families who were targeted by his lies about the Sandy Hook school shooting.

A Connecticut jury is deliberating on how much conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company must pay victims’ families for calling the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School a hoax.

Lawyers made their closing arguments and the jury began deliberating Thursday in the Alex Jones defamation trial in Waterbury.

In an unexpected move Friday, the attorney for Alex Jones told the judge he would not cross-examine his client in the Sandy Hook hoax trial.

Lawyers in the defamation trial of Alex Jones agreed Friday not to return him to the stand until next week after a contentious day of testimony Thursday about his promotion of the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax. Jones lawyer, Norm Pattis, told the judge he would waive his right to cross-examine the Infowars host…