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Newtown Holds First Funerals For Sandy Hook Victims
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A grief-stricken Newtown began laying to rest the littlest victims of the school massacre, starting with two 6-year-old boys — one of them a big football fan, the other described...
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Dick’s Sporting Goods Suspends Sales Of Sporting Rifles
PITTSBURGH (CBS/AP) — A sporting goods chain says it’s suspending sales of modern rifles nationwide because of the school shooting in Connecticut. Dick’s Sporting Goods also says it’s removing all guns...
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Newtown Elementary School Closed As Precaution After Threat
NEWTOWN, Conn. (CBS) – An elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut was shut down Tuesday, as schools across town reopened following the deadly shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary last Friday....
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Opinion: Guns
When I dropped my daughter off at school this morning I could not help thinking about the parents and the families of the victims — especially 20 of the 6- and 7-year-olds that were taken away — of...
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Gun Sales On Rise In NH Due To Concern About Stricter Gun Laws
MANCHESTER, NH (CBS) – At Lewis Arms, a gun store in Bow, New Hampshire, owner Brad Lewis says business is booming this week. “Saturday it was crazy, we did a week’s worth of business in one day,”...
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NRA Promises To Help Prevent School Shootings
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Rifle Association is breaking its silence four days after a school shooting in Newtown, Conn., where 26 were killed, including 20 children. The nation’s largest gun...
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Lynnfield Teachers Create ‘Teddy Bears For Newtown’ To Comfort Children After...
LYNNFIELD (CBS) – People all over the country feel powerless to help the community of Newtown but for two sisters from Lynnfield, they hope their contribution comforts some of the children. Emily and...
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Classes Resume In Newtown As 2 More Children Laid To Rest
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Newtown returned its students to their classrooms Tuesday for the first time since last week’s massacre and faced the agonizing task of laying others to rest, as this grieving...
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Newtown Shooting First Responder: “There Was Nobody To Treat”
NEWTOWN, Conn. (CBS) – For the first time, a rescuer who arrived at Sandy Hook Elementary is describing his horrific experience after the Newtown shooting, and the terrible realization that there...
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State Treasurer Directs Pension Fund To Review Investments In Gun Companies
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Treasurer Steve Grossman has directed the state pension fund to review any investments in gun companies in response to the killings last week of 20 children and six adults...
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Newtown Funerals ‘A Constant Reminder’ To Residents
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — For a third straight day Wednesday, funeral processions rolled through a grieving Connecticut town trying to make sense of the massacre of 20 first-graders and six adults in an...
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President Obama Sets January Deadline For Proposals To Reduce Gun Violence
WASHINGTON (AP) — Spurred by a horrific elementary school shooting, President Barack Obama tasked his administration Wednesday with creating concrete proposals to reduce the gun violence that has...
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Boston Police Take 500 Guns Off Streets In 2012
BOSTON (CBS) – It’s fitted with a grenade launcher. A Bushmaster Assault Rifle, similar to the one used in the Newtown, Conn. school shooting, was taken off the streets of Roslindale, from the car of...
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Reflections On A Week In Newtown
NEWTOWN, Conn. (CBS) — It’s remarkable that just an hour’s drive from one of the largest cities in the world, Newtown has maintained a “small town” feel. Instead of Starbucks, there’s a General Store...
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“We Are Newtown” Project Helps Community Heal
NEWTOWN, Conn. (CBS) – In the midst of unspeakable tragedy, it’s easy to feel lost. But there are plenty of Newtown students that won’t let that happen. Dozens of them were hard at work in a local...
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Newtown Victim’s Family Creates Fund Through Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation
BOSTON (CBS) – One of the young victims of the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting is being remembered through the Doug Flutie, Jr. Foundation for Autism in Massachusetts. Josephine Gay, who turned 7...
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NRA Calls For Armed Police Officer In Every School
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s largest gun-rights lobby called Friday for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer “waiting in the wings.” The National Rifle...
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MA Holds Sandy Hook Remembrance At The Garden Of Peace
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts has joined with Connecticut and other U.S. states in a moment of silence and the ringing of church bells for victims of last week’s elementary school massacre. Gov. Deval...
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Mayor Menino Blasts NRA Proposal
BOSTON (AP) — Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is criticizing the National Rifle Association’s call for armed police and security volunteers to be posted at schools. He said the group’s proposal “is not a...
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Bells Toll For Newtown Victims One Week After Shooting
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — The chiming of bells reverberated throughout Newtown on Friday, commemorating one week since the crackle of gunfire in a schoolhouse killed 20 children and six adults in a...
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