Candlelight vigil in Newtown, CT for victims of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
A young woman signs a prayer board inside Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Newtown, Connecticut during a prayer service and vigil in response to a shooting that left at least 26 people dead including 18 children at the Sandy Hook School earlier in the day on December 14, 2012. A gunman opened fire inside inside Sandy Hook Elementary School early Friday morning where his mother worked. The suspect 20-year-old Adam Lanza, reportedly killed himself following the shooting rampage inside the school. UPI/Matthew Healey
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A judge in Connecticut Wednesday offered the father of a child slain in the Newtown massacre a plea deal to resolve his bad-checks and motor vehicle case.
A top Connecticut official has become involved in talks about how to divide money raised for the Newtown victims after hearings were postponed this week.
U.S. Senate leaders say they worry New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns' efforts could cost Democrats control of the chamber.
National Rifle Association members at the group's national convention in Houston are celebrating legislative victories and taking aim at gun control advocates.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the chamber, after defeating a gun sale background checks bill, would table the measure to focus on other legislation.
U.S. President Obama said Wednesday the Senate vote to kill a bill expanding gun sale background checks was "shameful," but it was "just round 1" of the fight.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, speaking Wednesday before the Senate killed a bill expanding gun-sale background checks, said "we're gonna get this eventually."
More than 40 charitable groups have raised $20.4 million in the months since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., officials said.
Adam Lanza, who killed 20 students and six staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School, was beaten by classmates when he attended the school, a family member says.
U.S. President Barack Obama's renewed emphasis on promoting gun control legislation may have tilted the debate in his favor, political analysts said.
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