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New York's assault weapon registration begins
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Key measures of New York's tough new gun law kicked in Monday, with owners of firearms now reclassified as assault weapons required to start registering the firearms and new limits on the number of bullets allowed in magazines....
Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Weaponry, Judges
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Newtown Charities Raise $20.4 Million, Reveal Plans For Cash
The Hartford CourantMore than 40 charitable groups, many formed following the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, have collected nearly $20.4 million since the Dec. 14 shooting, with about 15 percent of the money being distributed, the attorney general's office said...Tags: Murder, Human Interest, Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, United Way
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Editorial: Cowards In Congress Fold On Background Checks
"Shame on you," two women yelled at senators Wednesday afternoon before they were escorted from the U.S. Capitol. The Senate deserved the opprobrium. It had just failed to advance a good amendment, born of bipartisan compromise and supported by more...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Primaries, Politics, Lobbying, Elections
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Sandy Hook panel eyes two sites for new school
New Haven Register, Conn.The 28-member task force charged with the task of determining the location for a new, rebuilt or renovated Sandy Hook Elementary School has narrowed down the possible sites to two and could make a decision on the emotional issue as early as Friday....Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Sandy Hook Elementary School
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State Fires Worker Who Showed Lanza's Body To Her Husband At Morgue
The Hartford CourantConnecticut's chief medical examiner has fired a state employee who let her husband view the body of mass killer Adam Lanza in the morgue two days after the Dec. 14 Newtown school massacre, The Courant has learned. The employee, Jean Henry, was...Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), AFSCME, Medical Procedures and Tests, Watertown, Laws
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Newtown Victims To Now Divide $7.7 Million
The Hartford CourantAs a federal judge, Alan Nevas was used to dealing with everything from long-term oversight of state agencies to sentencing drug dealers. But, he said Thursday, nothing compares to the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. The...Tags: Harvard Medical School, Prosecution, Judges, Roman Catholicism, Politics
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Extra patrol at McCabe school is good
It is certainly nice to see that McCabe School is taking safety precautions seriously. I have noticed an increase in sheriff’s deputies visible throughout the mornings, patrolling during school hours and physically present after school during...Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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Former Federal Judge To Help Decide Who Gets Sandy Hook Money, Sources Say
The Hartford CourantThe foundation charged with distributing more than $11 million donated after the Sandy Hook massacre is bringing in a former federal judge to help decide how that money will be allocated, two sources familiar with the selection said Thursday. Alan H....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Government, Middletown, United Way
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An Angry Obama Lashes Out At Senate's Rejection Of Gun Measures
The Hartford CourantAngered by a resounding defeat Wednesday of proposed gun control legislation that grew out of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, President Barack Obama stood outside the White House with parents of murdered Newtown first-graders and vowed: "This...Tags: Interior Policy, Gun Control, Patrick J. Toomey, Joe Manchin III, Barack Obama
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Fight against gun violence must go on despite setback in the Senate
I am ashamed to find out that the U.S. Senate has voted to oppose minimal, common-sense gun control legislation ("Defeat leaves gun control backers at a loss for strategy," April 19). Thankfully, both of our Maryland senators supported these measures,...
Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Criminals, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Weaponry
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Wasn't Sandy Hook enough?
Mary SanchezIs a modern day Emmett Till necessary to upend America's state of denial about gun violence? For those who go looking, there are detailed verbal accounts of the carnage that happened behind the walls of Sandy Hook Elementary School. Of the gore created...Tags: Interior Policy, Gun Control, Barack Obama, Laws, Politics
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Gun control fervor high, but as usual it will soon pass
This week the U.S. Senate will discuss the expansion of criminal background checks for gun buyers. Just months after one of the deadliest mass shootings by a single American, leading lawmakers suggest support for gun control legislation is bleak, and...Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Lake Worth, Lobbying, Politics
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Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 26, 2013
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Apr 26, 2013
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Apr 25, 2013
|Story| Imperial Valley Press Online
Apr 18, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Apr 19, 2013
|Column| Tribune Media Services
Apr 17, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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