Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Newtown marks six-month anniversary of school shooting

2013-06-14 19:55:00

People in Newtown, Conn., and around the country paused Friday to remember the tragic shooting rampage that took place at an elementary school six months ago to the day. While Newtown Public Schools officials planned no memorials or other events to mark...

Newtown families push for gun control, go back to Congress

2013-06-12 18:56:00

WASHINGTON — Although the drive for tougher gun controls has faded into the background, families of victims in the Newtown school shooting returned to the Capitol on Wednesday to show they are not giving up. Advocacy groups on both sides of the...

California Senate approves measures aimed at reducing gun violence

2013-05-16 13:22:00

SACRAMENTO --The state Senate approved two bills Thursday introduced following the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, including one requiring gun owners to keep their firearms in locked safe-boxes if they live with someone...

Maryland governor signs gun control law; NRA vows to sue

2013-05-16 13:58:00

Maryland has joined the list of states that have toughened gun control in the wake of the December shooting in Newtown, Conn. Gov. Martin O'Malley on Thursday signed the gun control bill that he promised he would. “We've chosen to take action by...

Gun control backers turn up heat on selected senators

2013-05-13 03:00:00

WASHINGTON — First came the letter-writing campaigns, then the protests at town hall meetings and now the television ads. The last several weeks in New Hampshire have had the feel of a heated electoral season — but the target of this siege,...

NRA pledge on gun rights: 'We will never surrender'

2013-05-04 14:56:00

HOUSTON — Vowing that “we will never surrender,” the leader of the National Rifle Assn. claimed victory over recently defeated gun control legislation and denounced “political and media” elites for vilifying gun owners and...

President Obama to meet with families of Sandy Hook victims

2013-04-08 13:23:00

HARTFORD, Conn. -- President Obama will meet Monday with family members of victims killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School to talk about their efforts to persuade Congress to pass gun control measures in response to the tragedy....

Connecticut state Senate OKs tougher gun control bill

2013-04-03 15:59:00

A lone gunman attacked a Connecticut elementary school just four months ago, renewing a debate on how to control gun violence. On Wednesday, that state’s Legislature began the final steps of passing what advocates call one of the nation’s...

Congress tackles gun violence, immigration

2013-04-08 10:23:00

WASHINGTON -- After a two-week spring recess, Congress returns to work on Tuesday for a make-or-break legislative sprint on two White House priorities – gun violence and immigration reform – in a session that could help define President Obama&...

Sandy Hook families push for votes on gun control

2013-04-09 13:28:00

WASHINGTON -- Family members of Sandy Hook shooting victims are bewildered that Congress is still struggling to pass stricter gun laws, Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday afternoon. Speaking to a room full of police in uniform at a White House event,...

750 L.A. Unified security aides hired since Newtown school shooting

2013-04-03 15:30:00

The Los Angeles Unified School District has hired more than 750 of the 1,000 security aides it decided to employ after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. The aides, equipped with radios, keep watch during school hours,...

NRA-backed task force unveils sweeping school safety proposal

2013-04-02 11:53:00

WASHINGTON — A National Rifle Assn.-backed task force unveiled a sweeping set of proposed school safety measures Tuesday, the gun rights group’s counterproposal to the spate of gun control bills introduced in the wake of the mass shooting in...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) speaks during an event marking the six month anniversary of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting at the U.S. Capitol June 13, 2013 in Washington, DC.

2013-06-13 22:53:47

In the six months since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., six states have strengthened firearms laws and in New Jersey and California, pending legislation seeks to tighten the regulation of assault weapons.

2013-06-13 00:00:00

Jonathan Reich, 22, of Flushing, N.Y., was charged with making threatening phone calls to a state official involved in the investigation of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and families affected by the tragedy.

2013-05-20 00:00:00