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3 ways to prevent school shootings, based on research

In the months leading up to his 2012 attack that killed 26 people in Newtown, Connecticut, a 20-year-old man exhibited a cascade of concerning behaviors. He experienced worsening anorexia, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. His relationships deteriorated, and he became fixated on mass murders.

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Mother who caused death of daughter ‘overwhelmed’ during pandemic, court told

Kaylea Titford, who suffered from spina bifida, was found dead at her home in Newtown, Powys, in October 2020.

The Independent UK

Man seriously hurt after being hit by car in Newtown, Powys

Police have launched an appeal for information after a man in his 60s was rushed to hospital with serious injuries

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Passing assault weapons bill is a matter of life and death

I don’t ever want to hear another politician offer “thoughts and prayers” after a mass shooting. I don’t ever again want to look into the eyes of parents of dead first- and second graders, as I did in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012. I don’t ever want to attend another funeral…

Chicago Sun-Times

Joe Biden says US should have ‘societal guilt’ 10 years after Sandy Hook

President commemorates 2012 shooting, in which 20 children and six adults were killed in Newtown, Connecticut

The Guardian - US

Behind the scenes at the state Capitol on day of Sandy Hook shootings

HARTFORD, Conn. — Dec. 14, 2012 started out like a normal Friday.

Tribune News Service

Connecticut’s governor delivered the news to 26 Sandy Hook families 10 years ago. It changed the national conversation around school violence and gun reform

HARTFORD, Conn. — On Dec. 14, 2012, 26 families huddled inside a firehouse in Newtown, holding onto their last fragments of hope that quickly drained from the cold, crowded space.

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Ten years after Sandy Hook, a mother's grief and healing

Newtown (United States) (AFP) - Jenny Hubbard struggles to believe that 10 years have passed since her six-year-old daughter's murder at Sandy Hook Elementary during the deadliest mass shooting against schoolchildren in US history.

AFP

In the wake of Sandy Hook massacre, a sense of duty to prevent further tragedy compelled Connecticut lawmakers to act on guns

HARTFORD, Conn. — As the initial shock and horror of the deaths of 20 young children and six female educators at a Newtown elementary school was still fresh in everyone’s mind, Connecticut’s top legislators decided they needed to do something.

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Sandy Hook siblings walked different, and sometimes difficult, paths to deal with the trauma of losing their younger brother

HARTFORD, Conn. — Erin Kowalski was 11 years old and in sixth grade when her little brother Chase died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Her sister Brittany was a freshman in high school.

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Sandy Hook families continue to break new legal ground with big court decisions over Infowars host Alex Jones and a major gun manufacturer

HARTFORD, Conn. — Relatives of the Sandy Hook shooting victims have won more than $1.5 billion in damages over the yearlong run-up to the 10-year remembrance of the murderous rampage at a Newtown elementary school.

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Man, 30s, dies in a crash between car and truck in Waterford

The man was killed when his car collided with a truck on the N25 in Newtown at around 1.30pm on Sunday

Irish Mirror

Mystery as missing man found dead after living under new name for years

Robert Hoagland disappeared from his home in Newtown, Connecticut, US, in 2013 leaving his wife and three sons desperately searching for answers

Daily Mirror

Man missing for the past decade turns up dead as police reveal he used a pseudonym

Newtown man Robert Hoagland, 59, disappeared in 2013 and was found dead 89 miles away in New York

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Sandy Hook survivors join Biden in Washington to remember all victims of gun violence

HARTFORD, Conn. — When Jackie Haggerty was just 7 years old, she huddled by her cubby in her second-grade classroom as a gunman tore through neighboring classrooms, killing 20 of her schoolmates and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The Independent UK

Sandy Hook memorial opens with no ceremony 10 years after massacre

Jennifer Hubbard, who lost her 6-year-old daughter Catherine at Sandy Hook, said the memorial is “perfectly appointed in honouring and providing a place of contemplation and reflection for a day that really changed the country”.

WEKU

A Sandy Hook memorial opens to the public nearly a decade after school tragedy

The memorial honors the 26 children and adults killed in the 2012 shooting in Newtown. A rebuilt Sandy Hook School is now visible from the site in Newtown, Conn.

The Independent UK

Lawyer: Punishment needed for Alex Jones' Sandy Hook claims

A lawyer for Sandy Hook families says significant punitive damages need to be imposed on Alex Jones to deter him and other conspiracy theorists from continuing to tell their followers the 2012 Newtown shooting was a hoax

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Roll Call

Capitol Lens | Eleventh-hour appeal - Roll Call

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, Democratic candidate for the state’s open Senate seat, speaks during a rally in Newtown, Pa., Sunday.

The Guardian - US

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones seeks new trial after nearly $1bn Sandy Hook verdict

Jury ordered Jones to pay $965m in damages to families subjected to harassment from Jones’s lies about Newtown school shooting

The Independent UK

Alex Jones seeks new trial after $1B Sandy Hook verdict

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked a Connecticut judge to throw out a nearly $1 billion verdict against him and order a new trial in a lawsuit by Sandy Hook families over Jones' lies that the 2012 Newtown school shooting was a hoax

Wales Online

Police appeal for missing 14-year-old boy

Officers in Newtown, Powys, are asking the public for help to find Caleb

Wales Online

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Fight to save a beautiful period house that's the last link to a Welsh town's past before demolition date

The property is due to be demolished within weeks

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New evidence shows Alex Jones’ InfoWars sales volume exploded during Sandy Hook false ‘hoax’ programming

Sandy Hook parents revealed new records in court Thursday that show conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ company ran sophisticated analyses of his web-based businesses and knew his sales volume exploded during programming portraying the Newtown school shootings as a government hoax.

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