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  As residents prepared to observe Christmas less than two weeks after a gunman killed 20 children and six educators at an elementary school, people sharing in the town’s mourning brought offerings of cards, handmade snowflakes and sympathy.Tiny empty Christmas stockings with the victims’ names on them hung from trees in the neighborhood where the […]

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NEWTOWN, Conn. — Gene Rosen heard the staccato sound of gunfire near his home Friday morning, but dismissed it as a hunter in the nearby…

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Lilly Rosell contemplated keeping her 7-year-old daughter at home on the first day of classes since the Connecticut elementary school massacre, but she ultimately decided, like so many other parents, there was only so much she could do to keep her daughter safe. “I’m panicking here to be honest,” Rosell, of Miami, said as she anxiously […]

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  Mourners gathered in Fairfield and Newtown Monday morning as the first two funerals for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting were held. The funeral for Noah Pozner, 6, was held at the Abraham L. Green & Son Funeral Home on Beach Road in Fairfield. A funeral for his classmate, 6-year-old Jack Pinto, took place in Newtown at the Honan […]

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    The bodies of children and educators lay where they fell in a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school — in classrooms and hallways — as investigators worked to identity the dead early Saturday while piecing together the path of the gunman. Twenty children and six adults were killed when the shooter opened fire Friday morning […]