Toy Donations Pour Into Newtown For The Holidays
Since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, gifts have come into the grief-stricken Connecticut community by the truckload. Parents say they're not sure how to celebrate, but some hope the...
View ArticlePulling Together, Newtown Celebrates Holiday 'As Best We Can'
Shopkeepers say Saturday was the first day people resumed Christmas shopping in Newtown, Conn., since the school shootings. Some locals say the community feels closer since the tragedy, and the post...
View ArticleWith Those Lost In Mind, Sandy Hook Students And Staff Return To Classes
For the first time since the Dec. 14 mass shooting, the children and educators are gathering. A nearby school building that was empty has been transformed into a new Sandy Hook Elementary. Twenty...
View ArticleWhat Will Happen To All The Letters People Sent to Newtown?
In the weeks following the killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than a quarter-million cards, letters and gifts have arrived in Newtown, Conn. The town is trying to decide what to do with a...
View ArticleNewtown, Conn., Businesses Suffer After Nearby School Shooting
Four months after tragedy struck in the Sandy Hook neighborhood of Newtown, a once-thriving business district in the center of town is struggling. Visitors aren't comfortable shopping and eating just a...
View ArticleSandy Hook Parent Transformed Into Activist After Shooting
In December, six-year-old Benjamin Wheeler was among those killed in the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School. Since then, his father, David Wheeler has met with officials in Washington, D.C., urging...
View ArticleSix Months After Shooting, Newtown Paper Tries To Move Forward
The Newtown, Conn., school shooting last December prompted the local weekly paper to publish its first special edition ever. But the Newtown Bee's staff has made a conscious decision not to commemorate...
View ArticleConn. Law May Discourage Mental Illness Sufferers From Help
After the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, states have taken steps to limit gun access for people with mental illness. In Connecticut, a new law requires psychiatric hospitals to report anyone...
View ArticleNewtown Residents Demolish A School, And Violent Memories
In Newtown, Conn., demolition work has started at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Bricks will be pulverized and steel melted down. Workers must sign agreements forbidding any public discussion of the...
View ArticleSandy Hook Elementary 911 Calls Reveal Panic From Inside School
The calls were made as gunman Adam Lanza entered the school on Dec. 14, killing 20 children and six staff members. "It's still going on," a school custodian told a dispatcher. "I keep hearing shooting....
View ArticleIn The Year After Newtown Shooting, Most States Relaxed Gun Laws
In the wake of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., last year, there was a call to enhance restrictions on gun purchases. One of the groups leading the charge was Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Melissa...
View ArticleNewtown Parents Seek A Clearer Window Into Violent Behavior
When Jeremy Richman and Jennifer Hensel lost their daughter in the Connecticut shooting, they couldn't understand why someone would do such a thing. In seeking an answer, they're funding research into...
View ArticleOne Year After Newtown, Still No Answer To 'Why'
A year after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., gunman Adam Lanza's motives are still unclear. Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy says people may just have to be satisfied with...
View ArticleA Grieving Newtown Mother's Motto: 'Love Wins'
As a therapist, Nelba Márquez-Greene has spent a career counseling mentally ill and troubled young people. But she'll never understand what drove a young man to take the life of her 6-year-old daughter...
View ArticleIn Newtown, Making Promises To Transform A Tragedy
After the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a group of victim families and others in the community joined together to try to prevent gun violence, and they asked the rest of the world to...
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