Columbine High School

HARTFORD – Three Democratic members of Congress from Connecticut are planning to file legislation that would allow the use of federal dollars to help pay for the construction of a new Sandy Hook Elementary School. If approved, it would mark the...

NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - A special task force of elected town officials on Friday recommended tearing down Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 children and six adults were shot to death in December, and rebuilding it on the site...

When Chris Marciano was 4 years old, he would have a blistering tantrum whenever music came on the radio. By the second grade, his teacher described him as "not with us." At age 11, he was kicked out of school. "The pediatrician said he was just...

Determining the future site of a new Sandy Hook Elementary School will take at least another week, and possibly longer, members of a 28-member task force said Friday night after being briefed on the trauma suffered by the school's staff. The briefing,...

Three Lakeland middle schoolers were arrested on conspiracy charges after, police say, they had plans to create mass "chaos" at Sleepy Hill Middle School. One 13-year-old girl, a 13-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl were all arrested and face charges...

The bullets whizzing down the halls of an abandoned dorm at the South Carolina Sanatorium were not real. But that hardly mattered to SC Highway Patrol Senior Trooper Bridget Wyant as she guarded the rear of a four-man squad shuffling toward screams...

After the devastating school shootings in Newtown, Conn., in December, state lawmakers around the country vowed to act. The mission: Devise ways to prevent a similar tragedy. They came up with hundreds of possible strategies. An Education Week...

Let's go back several years to the Columbine High School shootings. Before my retirement I was a police officer and director of school security. I learned that notes of the two Columbine shooters said that the first person they were going to look for...

April is a spectacular month. It heralds warm spring days awash in color. Azaleas, forsythia, flowering trees, yellow dandelions and lush green grass brighten the landscape. Baby birds chirp ceaselessly while their parents frantically search for worms and...

An AR-15 semiautomatic rifle rests on one end of the table. The black, sleek weapon by DPMS Firearms has a collapsible stock, pistol grip and flash suppressor. When politicians talk about banning weapons, an intimidating firearm like this one often sits...

WASHINGTON — Supporters of stricter gun laws have organization, money and — after the Senate blocked an expansion of background-check requirements — fury. What they don't have is a clear path to changing the political arithmetic of the...

As social media sites have pelted out news of the Boston bombing, playing fast and loose with the numbers of the dead and injured and amplifying hearsay into a cacophony of confusion, one tweet seemed to say it all: "Dear Journalism: Get yourself together...