Newtown Massacre

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  Families of Sandy Hook Massacre Victims Sue Gunmaker

  Families of victims in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre filed a US lawsuit Monday seeking damages from the manufacturers of the high-powered assault rifle used in the slaughter.

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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.

• 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.

• US releases chilling Newtown massacre documents

  Newtown gunman Adam Lanza wore yellow ear plugs that muffled the screams of his victims and he shot himself in the mouth after committing one of America's worst school massacres.

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  Robot cop developed that can predict and prevent crime

  A US-based company developed the robot in response to the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, in December 2012.

• 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.

• Connecticut school massacre recordings reveal calm, anguish and gunshots

  A teacher calmly explains she has been shot in the foot. Another woman, sounding anguished, pleads for help.

• 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.

• 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.

• White House vows gun control fight not over

  The White House pledged on Thursday that it would continue to fight for tighter gun controls six months after the Newtown massacre, as President Barack Obama prepared to meet with victims' relatives.

• Panel recommends rebuilding US school massacre site

  Newtown parents Steven Uhde and Peter Barresi didn't want the town to abandon the elementary school property where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed in December and build a new school elsewhere, saying that would be like letting the gunman win.

• 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.

• Newtown school shooting victim's mother to deliver weekly address for Barack Obama

  In the rarest of the rare move, US President Barack Obama has asked the mother of a six-year-old killed in last December's Newtown massacre to stand in for him to address the nation this weekend.

• After school massacre, Newtown residents urge stricter gun control

  Parents and neighbours of the children killed in last month's Connecticut school shooting implored state lawmakers at a hearing on Wednesday to ban the powerful rifle and high-capacity magazines used in the massacre.

• Barack Obama unveils biggest gun-control push in decades

  President Barack Obama proposed a new assault weapons ban and mandatory background checks for all gun buyers on Wednesday as he tried to channel national outrage over the Newtown school massacre into the biggest US gun-control push in decades.