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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Newtown, Conn., voters approved a $49.25 million state appropriation to fund the destruction of Sandy Hook Elementary School and construction of a new school.
Miriam Carey, the woman shot dead after a high-speed chase through Washington, had anti-psychotic medications in her home, investigators said Friday.
A brass bell installed at an Island Park, N.Y., playground and dedicated to a Sandy Hook Elementary School victim was stolen, Nassau County, N.Y., police said.
The Obama administration has allocated $45 million to pay for armed police officers in U.S. schools, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday.
The Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission says tapes of 911 calls, including those of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, are public record.
Americans ranked the mental health system as the biggest factor to blame for the country's mass shootings, a Gallup poll indicates.
After more than a year of debate, town leaders in Newtown, Conn., say they have approved an ordinance that restricts the recreational use of firearms.
Parents of school-age children say they aren't any more at ease about school safety eight months after the Newtown, Conn., grade school massacre, Gallup said.
The federal government will give Connecticut $2.5 million to offset costs related to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, Eric Holder said Wednesday.
Connecticut's Office of the Child Advocate is trying to get access to the school records of Adam Lanza, who killed 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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