Connecticut School Shootings

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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Obamas observe silence on Newtown massacre anniversary

  President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle lit 26 candles and observed a moment of silence on Saturday in honor of the victims of last year's shooting at an elementary school.

• A year later, reflections from Newtown

  A gunman charged into an elementary school last year and open fired on students. 20 children and six educators died that day.

• Newtown's year: Struggle to move on from shooting

  A year later, inside a big house in Newtown, dolls fill the shelves of a living room and flowers and rainbows decorate a kitchen window, next to a little girl's name: Avielle.

• Yale campus safe, police say call warning of gunman a hoax

  New Haven authorities say they have not found a gunman on Yale's campus and are leaning toward a call warning of an armed man heading to shoot up the school being a hoax.

• Newtown massacre: The nightmare continues, post shooting

  A few nights after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, David Posey heard a strange noise in his house and went upstairs to check on his son. The little boy, who had just seen his teacher and a first-grade classmate gunned down, was pounding on the floor.

• Brave clerk talked man out of US school shooting bloodbath

  A woman credited with convincing a gunman holed up in an Atlanta-area school to lay down his assault rifle and surrender to police says the man was suicidal and preparing to die in a bloodbath before she talked him out of it.

• Newtown marks six months since school massacre

  A Connecticut town held a moment of silence Friday for the victims of an elementary school massacre at a remembrance event that doubled as a call to action on gun control, with the reading of names of thousands of victims of gun violence.

• World's first 3D-printed gun fires real bullets

  A non-profit group from Texas claims to have successfully fired a plastic gun that was made using a 3D printer.

• Fight over US gun control law far from over, say rights panel

  The National Rifle Association convention comes as debate over gun control legislation in the US has reached a fever pitch in the wake of December's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20 young children and six educators were killed.

• Connecticut town mulls fate of Sandy Hook school months after massacre

  After a gut-wrenching and tearful meeting, officials expressed doubt that the Connecticut elementary school where 20 children and six adults were shot to death last December could ever be reopened.

• In blow to Barack Obama, US Senate blocks gun-control plan

  President Barack Obama's campaign to curb gun violence after the Newtown school massacre was dealt a crippling blow on Wednesday when the US Senate rejected a plan to expand background checks for gun buyers.