Sandy Hook News

A police road block is at the entrance to the new Sandy Hook Elementary School on the first day of classes in Monroe, Conn., Thursday, Jan.

More than five months after the Sandy Hook shootings, the town clerk's office is steadfast in its refusal to release death certificates for those slain Dec.

DANBURY, Conn. Although no district felt the impact harder than Newtown, teachers in Danbury lost friends and colleagues as well in last December's massacre at Sandy Hook.

New Fairfield native Matthew LaBanca, starring as Mr. Lyons, performs with Marisa Devetta, as Mrs.

A new playground will be built at Westport's Long Lots School in memory of Dylan Hockley, one of the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting.

Last December, Adam Lanza killed 20 kids and 6 adults at a school in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

The Flagpole Radio Cafe will return to the Edmond Town Hall on Saturday, May 18, in its first show since the tragic events in Newtown's Sandy Hook section last December.

Tammy Marks, of Newtown, reacts to the decision to tear down and rebuild the Sandy Hook Elementry School.

As it has for nearly a quarter of a century, last year's Newtown Chapter Regional Hospice and Home Care's annual breakfast fundraiser drew a large and enthusiastic crowd to the Waterview in Monroe.

The victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting were honored, and the resilience of the Newtown community was celebrated, during Western Connecticut State University 's 115th undergraduate commencement ceremony Sunday.

NEWTOWN, Conn., - The day after a task force unanimously recommended razing and rebuilding Sandy Hook Elementary School, residents expressed relief tinged with sadness on Saturday in the small New England town that became a focal point of the national debate on gun control.

Hailing a series of policies he said took months to fine-tune, Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr.

From left, Shirley Fredlund of Voice for Joanie, Scarlett Lewis and J.T. Lewis, 12, mother and brother of Sandy Hook shooting victim Jesse Lewis, visit with Bobby Murray, who suffers from Lou Gehrig's disease and is seen here with the eye-activated communication device that he uses, Wednesday, May 1, 2013.

Local officials debating the future of Sandy Hook Elementary School following a December school shooting decided Friday the school belongs in its original home - but in a new building.

The chairman of a congressional task force on gun violence had some very strong words Friday for politicians opposing universal background checks.

The last time they met, many members of the task force were visibly shaken after a closed-door executive session at the start of the meeting when Sandy Hook teachers apparently offered harrowing testimonials.

Amid smiling children and passing motorbikes, a fire truck from Newtown rolls down the streets of a small Guatemalan town.

This past March, members of Enfield, Connecticut's school board voted 5-4 to place armed security guards in 10 of their schools.

Neil Heslin, right, father of a slain Sandy Hook first grader, appears with lawyer Bruce Weiant to face a variety of motor vehicle and criminal charges at Superior Court in Milford, Conn.

Gun-related homicides and crime are "strikingly" down from 20 years ago, despite the American public's belief that firearm crime is on the upswing, a new study said Wednesday.