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Sandy Hook Promise Youth Leaders Discuss Their Reactions to Uvalde Shooting
On Monday there was a candid conversation with students from across the country, including Connecticut, as they talked about the Uvalde school shooting and the response to it. “We are all really heartbroken something like this has happened, that another tragedy, another showing of gun violence,” said Jordyne Lewis a member of the Sandy Hook Promise. The students said now…
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Sandy Hook Promise Youth Leaders Get Candid About Uvalde Shooting and What More Needs to be Done
Students say this is the time for action and would like to turn the Uvalde tragedy into a moment for change.
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Sandy Hook Promise Continues Advocacy to Prevent School Shootings
Nicole Hockley can’t believe it’s been almost ten years since a shooter took her son Dylan’s life at Sandy Hook Elementary School. She and others in the Newtown community say their arms are wide open to the families in Texas whenever they need a shoulder to lean on. “It has been far too eerily or hauntingly similar to Sandy...
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Sandy Hook Promise Offers Support to Texas School Shooting Victims
Within hours of the mass shooting at an elementary school Uvalde, Texas, Sandy Hook Promise responded to show support for the people of the shattered community.
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‘A Horrific Tragedy': Gov. Abbott on Uvalde School Shooting
Texas Governor Greg Abbott discusses the shooting at a Texas elementary school that left at least 14 students and 1 teacher dead.
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Women Accused of Defrauding Sandy Hook Promise Concert Investors
Two women are accused of posing as booking agents for Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars and defrauding investors for a concert to benefit the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation. Nancy Jean, 51, of Riverdale, Georgia and 41-year-old Carissa Scott, of Fayette, Mississippi, were arrested Wednesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern...
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Sandy Hook Promise Gets $25,000 Donation
A school violence prevention program started by parents whose children were killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre is receiving a $25,000 donation.
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Sandy Hook Promise to be Honored With FBI Director's Community Leadership Award
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is awarding Sandy Hook Promise with the regional 2019 FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award on Monday.
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Advocates Push for Tighter Laws on Gun Storage Safety
On Monday, a public hearing was held in Hartford to tighten laws on gun storage safety. The bipartisan bill for gun storage safety would make it required for both loaded and unloaded guns to be safely stored in homes occupied by minors and people not allowed to legally have access to firearms.
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Documents Show Sandy Hook Shooter's ‘Isolated' Childhood Years
It took years, but last month Connecticut State Police released more than a thousand pages of documents looking into the childhood years of Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza.
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Walt Disney Joins Sandy Hook Promise Program to Combat Social Isolation
The Walt Disney Co. has agreed to help expand an educational program developed in response to the 2012 mass shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school.
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Sandy Hook Promise Releases Powerful Short Film on Warning Signs of Gun Violence
A national organization created by family members whose loved ones were killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown has released a powerful new video on the warning signs of gun violence.
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US Rep. Esty Speaks for the First Time Since Announcing She Will Not Run for Re-Election
Speaking for the first time since announcing her decision to not run for re-election, U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty said regrets the way she handled accusations against her former chief of staff.
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Sheryl Crow Releases Song for Sandy Hook Promise
Grammy award-winning singer Sheryl Crow has written a song for the Sandy Hook Promise group, which formed shortly after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012.