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Families Can Sue Gun Maker For US School Massacre: Court
Families of schoolchildren gunned down in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre can sue Remington Outdoor Co Inc, a Connecticut court ruled on Thursday, in a setback for gun makers long shielded from liability in mass shootings.
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Why This Little Girl is Standing on a Toilet Broke Her Mother's Heart
When Michigan mother Stacey Wehrman Feeley found her three-year-old daughter perched on top of the toilet, she thought it made for a funny photo and immediately clicked one to share with her husband. Then she found out the truth.
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Teen Says 'ISIS' In Pledge, Gets Pulled From School
A Connecticut high school student has been pulled out of classes and reported to police for substituting "ISIS" for the "United States of America" during the Pledge of Allegiance.
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On Sandy Hook Anniversary, US Activists Call For Gun Restrictions
US gun control activists called for expanded background checks for firearms purchasers and for a ban on sales to people on federal watch lists today, in a protest marking the third anniversary of the massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.
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Opinion: The Gun That Killed My Grandson
Motives do not matter to the dead. They don't matter much to survivors, either. When my 6-year-old grandson, Noah, was gunned down three years ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, along with 19 other first-graders and six educators, we were engulfed in a grief so brutal and so profound that an explanation was the last thing ...
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Newtown Massacre Shooter Indulged Dark Obsessions Online, Says Report
By the time Adam Lanza massacred 26 children and adults at a Connecticut school two years ago, he was living in nearly complete isolation, communicating with no one except an online network of people obsessed with mass murder, a report released on Friday said.
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Police Seek Motive in Fatal Washington State School Shooting
Authorities were seeking a motive on Saturday as to why a high school student in the United States' Washington state shot dead a female classmate and wounded four others in a campus cafeteria before killing himself.
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US University Settles Sex Assault Lawsuit
The University of Connecticut has settled a federal lawsuit filed by five women who claimed the school responded to their sexual assault complaints with indifference.
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US States Look to Gun Seizure Law After Mass Killings
As state officials across the country grapple with how to prevent mass killings like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, some are turning to a gun seizure law pioneered in Connecticut 15 years ago.
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Astronaut to Deliver Graduation Address from Space
University of Connecticut alumnus Rick Mastracchio would have liked to deliver this year's graduation address to the school of engineering in person. But he'll be out of town on May 10 - orbiting the globe on the International Space Station.
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US student stabbed at prom died of wounds: autopsy
A 16-year-old girl stabbed at her high school on the day of her junior year formal dance died of wounds to her torso and neck, Connecticut's chief medical examiner said on Sunday.
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20 hurt in mass stabbing at US high school
An American student stabbed or slashed 20 teenagers and an adult in a bloody 30-minute rampage in the classrooms and hallways of a Pittsburgh high school.
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Architects unveil plans for school to replace site of Newtown massacre
Architects on Tuesday unveiled designs for a new elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, filled with sunlight, connections to nature - and new security measures - to replace the building where a gunman killed 26 people, mostly young children, in 2012, one of the worst such attacks in U.S. history.
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Storms taking toll on families, schools in US Northeast
A winter storm that froze the U.S. southeast in its tracks pushed north on Thursday, with driving winds and heavy snow snarling travel and closing many schools from Washington to Connecticut, creating havoc for winter-weary parents.
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Gunman opens fire in New Mexico school, two students hurt
A shooter opened fire at a middle school in New Mexico on Tuesday, seriously wounding at least two teenage students before being taken into custody, police and hospital officials said.
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Families Can Sue Gun Maker For US School Massacre: Court
Families of schoolchildren gunned down in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre can sue Remington Outdoor Co Inc, a Connecticut court ruled on Thursday, in a setback for gun makers long shielded from liability in mass shootings.
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Why This Little Girl is Standing on a Toilet Broke Her Mother's Heart
When Michigan mother Stacey Wehrman Feeley found her three-year-old daughter perched on top of the toilet, she thought it made for a funny photo and immediately clicked one to share with her husband. Then she found out the truth.
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Teen Says 'ISIS' In Pledge, Gets Pulled From School
A Connecticut high school student has been pulled out of classes and reported to police for substituting "ISIS" for the "United States of America" during the Pledge of Allegiance.
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On Sandy Hook Anniversary, US Activists Call For Gun Restrictions
US gun control activists called for expanded background checks for firearms purchasers and for a ban on sales to people on federal watch lists today, in a protest marking the third anniversary of the massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.
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Opinion: The Gun That Killed My Grandson
Motives do not matter to the dead. They don't matter much to survivors, either. When my 6-year-old grandson, Noah, was gunned down three years ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, along with 19 other first-graders and six educators, we were engulfed in a grief so brutal and so profound that an explanation was the last thing ...
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Newtown Massacre Shooter Indulged Dark Obsessions Online, Says Report
By the time Adam Lanza massacred 26 children and adults at a Connecticut school two years ago, he was living in nearly complete isolation, communicating with no one except an online network of people obsessed with mass murder, a report released on Friday said.
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Police Seek Motive in Fatal Washington State School Shooting
Authorities were seeking a motive on Saturday as to why a high school student in the United States' Washington state shot dead a female classmate and wounded four others in a campus cafeteria before killing himself.
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US University Settles Sex Assault Lawsuit
The University of Connecticut has settled a federal lawsuit filed by five women who claimed the school responded to their sexual assault complaints with indifference.
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US States Look to Gun Seizure Law After Mass Killings
As state officials across the country grapple with how to prevent mass killings like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, some are turning to a gun seizure law pioneered in Connecticut 15 years ago.
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Astronaut to Deliver Graduation Address from Space
University of Connecticut alumnus Rick Mastracchio would have liked to deliver this year's graduation address to the school of engineering in person. But he'll be out of town on May 10 - orbiting the globe on the International Space Station.
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US student stabbed at prom died of wounds: autopsy
A 16-year-old girl stabbed at her high school on the day of her junior year formal dance died of wounds to her torso and neck, Connecticut's chief medical examiner said on Sunday.
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20 hurt in mass stabbing at US high school
An American student stabbed or slashed 20 teenagers and an adult in a bloody 30-minute rampage in the classrooms and hallways of a Pittsburgh high school.
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Architects unveil plans for school to replace site of Newtown massacre
Architects on Tuesday unveiled designs for a new elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, filled with sunlight, connections to nature - and new security measures - to replace the building where a gunman killed 26 people, mostly young children, in 2012, one of the worst such attacks in U.S. history.
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Storms taking toll on families, schools in US Northeast
A winter storm that froze the U.S. southeast in its tracks pushed north on Thursday, with driving winds and heavy snow snarling travel and closing many schools from Washington to Connecticut, creating havoc for winter-weary parents.
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Gunman opens fire in New Mexico school, two students hurt
A shooter opened fire at a middle school in New Mexico on Tuesday, seriously wounding at least two teenage students before being taken into custody, police and hospital officials said.
