Sandy Hook

Newtown board to debate Sandy Hook School's future

10 days ago

The 430 children who survived the shootings are now attending a remodeled school in the neighboring town of Monroe that has been renamed Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Gun show background checks just common sense

76 days ago

As President Barack Obama said at the Sandy Hook prayer vigil: "We can't tolerate this anymore.

NRA puts its name on Texas Motor Speedway's April race

77 days ago

The press release did not mention the December shootings at Newtown, Conn., where 26 students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary were killed by a shooter with an assualt rifle.

Sandy Hook Chorus from Newtown, Conn., to sing at Super Bowl with Jennifer Hudson

109 days ago

On Thursday, however, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told The Hartford Courant that Sandy Hook students will sing with Academy Award- and Grammy-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson.

Newtown expands scope of planned children's museum

112 days ago

On Dec. 14, Hochsprung was among the victims of the rampage that killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook.

Commentary: Obama-paranoia at the gun show

115 days ago

Hudson told a stranger or two next to him not to worry about the president's gun-control plans, announced in response to last month's deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut.

Athletes from college to pro offer help in Newtown

129 days ago

The Orange Bowl Committee, host of the BCS Championship, donated $80,120 to a scholarship fund for Sandy Hook children being set up by the University of Connecticut.

Improve mental-health care, but don't expect that to cure mass violence

132 days ago

High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks.

Newtown sets up task force to handle donations

135 days ago

Liz Eaton, 70, who lives in the village of Sandy Hook, was sent to the warehouse to help box bears.

Commentary: Newtown massacre media coverage and the harm that false information...

135 days ago

So it's no surprise that the Dec. 14 slaughter at Sandy Hook elementary summoned a crisis-level response from the institution that is society's trip wire and its intelligence service, the news media.

School starts at new building for Sandy Hook kids

137 days ago

"Her 7-year-old son, William, was among more than 400 students who escaped a gunman's rampage that killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook on Dec. 14.

Open house being held for Sandy Hook students

138 days ago

The children who escaped last month's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown were welcomed Wednesday to a school in a neighboring town that was overhauled specially for them.

Commentary: Sales of AR-15 assault rifles can and should be restricted

145 days ago

In the Newtown, Conn., massacre, Adam Lanza used an AR-15 manufactured by Bushmaster to massacre 26 people at Sandy Hook elementary - including 20 first-graders murdered in their classrooms.

Commentary: Showing courage, love beyond words

148 days ago

She and her Sandy Hook colleagues wanted to teach their eager young pupils important skills such as spelling, counting and that life has room for drawing holiday turkeys by outlining your hand.

NRA calls for Congress to require armed guards in every school

151 days ago

"What if when Adam Lanza started shooting his way into Sandy Hook he'd been confronted by qualified, armed security?"

Emergency responders struggle with horror, guilt

151 days ago

"For some of us, it's fairly difficult," said Barresi, of the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire and Rescue Co. "

Commentary: It's easier to kill with guns than regulate them more

152 days ago

On Wednesday, two days before Sandy Hook, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam held a press conference to mark the 25th year of the concealed-weapon permit program.

In Connecticut, mourning continues

152 days ago

One by one by one by one, each with fresh heartbreak, hearses crisscrossed two New England towns on Wednesday, bearing three tiny victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre and a heroic teacher in...

Sandy Hook classrooms being replicated in new school

152 days ago

It's expected to open in January, and students will remain there at least through the academic year with Donna Page, a retired Sandy Hook principal, leading the new school.

Quotations of the day | Latest National Headlines | News from Fort Worth, Dallas...

153 days ago

---"It is apparent that the Sandy Hook tragedy was a watershed event that has raised the national debate on gun control to an unprecedented level."

How prepared can we be if evil strikes again?

153 days ago

And with Sandy Hook, it seems to have marched forward: Have we gone so far down this rabbit hole of mass murder in America that we must make sure our first-graders are ready with escape routes, too?

Gun-rights supporters expecting a clampdown

153 days ago

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have huddled with Cabinet members and senior staffers this week to begin forging a more formal response to the Sandy Hook shootings.

Gun makers fret as gun control consensus gains steam

153 days ago

Private-equity giant Cerberus Capital Management LP announced Tuesday that it had hired a financial adviser and would begin the process of selling Freedom Group, the company it owns that makes the...

Australia got tough, reduced mass shootings

153 days ago

But after Sandy Hook, with the nation shocked and groping for answers once again, I wonder if Americans are still so sure that we have nothing to learn from Australia's example.

Gun maker investment slipped through teacher fund

153 days ago

Cerberus announced Tuesday it will sell its holdings in the manufacturer of the military-style rifle used to kill 20 schoolchildren and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

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