Newtown: The children who survived Friday's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School will not have to return to the scene of the massacre when school reopens later this week and instead will attend classes in a neighboring Connecticut town, Newtown school officials said on Sunday. It remains unclear when the 436 surviving students at Sandy Hook will return to class, but when they do it will be in an unused...
01:57 AM, Dec 17, 2012
In the US, Newtown is still struggling to cope with Friday's shooting, which claimed the lives so several people including many young children. US President Barack Obama is set to attend a memorial service for the dead in the town later Sunday. He will also meet the families of the victims. ...
09:26 PM, Dec 16, 2012
New Delhi: A young man early on Sunday morning opened fire at a waiter who refused to eat the leftover food after he and his friends finished eating at a dhaba in central Delhi. However, the victim escaped without any wounds. The man identified as Rajesh was caught with a pistol after he fired at Monu, who hails from Etawah district in Uttar Pradesh, at around 6.30 am near Shivaji...
02:33 PM, Dec 16, 2012
Newtown: Fighting back tears and struggling to catch his breath, the father of a six-year-old gunned down in the school shooting in Connecticut told the world on Saturday about a little girl who loved to draw and was always smiling, and he also reserved surprising words of sympathy for the gunman. Robbie Parker's daughter Emilie was among the 20 children who died on Friday in the one of the worst...
09:37 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Over 24 hours since the horrific Connecticut school shooting massacre, police have identified all 26 victims, which includes 20 kids. ...
09:35 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Authorities in Connecticut say they have now identified all 26 people killed in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. ...
09:04 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Southbury: At Newtown High School, Adam Lanza had trouble relating to fellow students and teachers, but that was only part of his problem. He seemed not to feel physical or psychological pain in the same way as classmates. Richard Novia, the school district's head of security until 2008, who also served as adviser for the school technology club, said Lanza clearly "had some disabilities". "If that boy would've burned himself,...
08:59 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Newtown: Below are the names and ages of the 26 people gunned down at a Connecticut elementary school on Friday in the second-deadliest school shooting in US history: Charlotte Bacon, 6 Daniel Barden, 7 Rachel Davino, 29 Olivia Engel, 6 Josephine Gay, 7 Ana Marquez-Greene, 6 Dylan Hockley, 6 Dawn Hochsprung, 47 Madeleine Hsu, 6 Catherine Hubbard, 6 Chase Kowalski, 7 Jesse Lewis, 6 James Mattioli, 6 Grace McDonnell, 7...
07:50 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama will attend an inter-faith memorial service on Sunday in Newtown, Connecticut, the site of Friday's deadly elementary school shooting. Twenty-six people, including 20 children, were killed when a man opened fire inside the school. Hours after the shooting, a tearful Obama said he grieved first as a father. In those remarks and later in his Saturday radio address, Obama called for "meaningful action" to prevent...
07:38 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Newtown: Investigators assembled "some very good evidence" to explain what drove a 20-year-old gunman to slaughter 20 children and six adults at an elementary school, police said on Saturday, a day after one of the worst mass shootings in US history shattered a small Connecticut town. The attacker, identified by law enforcement sources as Adam Lanza, opened fire on Friday morning at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, which teaches...
01:34 AM, Dec 16, 2012
In a shocking incident in Connecticut district 28 people including 20 children were killed when a 20-year-old man opened fire at an elementary school. The shooter also killed himself in the incident. ...
08:02 PM, Dec 15, 2012
New York: Over 100 people have died and about two dozen injured in campus shootings across the US over the last 20 years with the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007 being the deadliest claiming 33 lives, including that of two Indians, a study said. The shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut on Friday was America's second-deadliest campus shooting incident which left 28 dead including 20 children. On...
07:35 PM, Dec 15, 2012
Newtown: Residents of the small Connecticut community of Newtown were reeling on Saturday from one of the worst mass shootings in US history, as police sought answers about what drove a 20-year-old gunman to slaughter 20 children at an elementary school. The attacker, identified by law enforcement sources as Adam Lanza, opened fire on Friday morning at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which teaches children aged five to 10. He ultimately...
05:33 PM, Dec 15, 2012
New Delhi: Gun control laws in the United States have come under fire after the mass killing on Friday at a Connecticut school, putting renewed pressure on US President Barack Obama and other Democrats to address the easy availability of firearms. Just an hour after Obama tearfully said on national television that the country needs 'meaningful action to prevent more tragedies,' about 200 people rallied outside the White House on...
01:11 PM, Dec 15, 2012
Newtown: A man killed his mother at their home and then opened fire on Friday inside an elementary school, massacring 26 people, including 20 children, as youngsters cowered in fear to the sound of gunshots reverberating through the building and screams echoing over the intercom. The 20-year-old killer, carrying at least two handguns, committed suicide at the school, bringing the death toll to 28, authorities said. The rampage, coming less...
11:51 AM, Dec 15, 2012
According CNN's Tom Foreman the shooter came from the front door and people started hearing shots right away. By 9:41 or so calls were coming in for 911. The principal, vice principal and psychologist who were in a meeting, came out and went towards the gunfire. The VP came back wounded. Authorities say the shooting happened in a relatively short period of time and they say the gunman did not ...
11:04 AM, Dec 15, 2012
United Nations: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday voiced his 'deepest condolences over the victims of a school shooting in the US state of Connecticut which killed 20 children. In a letter to Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy, Ban called the Sandy Hook Elementary School rampage 'shocking murders', spokesman Martin Nesirky said. "The secretary-general said that the targeting of children is heinous and unthinkable, and extended his thoughts and prayers...
10:34 AM, Dec 15, 2012
Twenty six people including 20 children were killed in a shootout at a US elementary school in Connecticut on Thursday. It's unclear if the shooter, identified as 20-year-old Adam Lanza, took his own life or not. Police has recovered three weapons from him - two of which are registered in his mother's name. In a bizarre twist she was found dead in another crime scene. ...
08:08 AM, Dec 15, 2012
Newtown: Twenty schoolchildren were slaughtered by a heavily armed gunman who opened fire at a suburban elementary school in Connecticut on Friday, killing at least 27 people including himself in the one of the worst mass shootings in the US history. The 20-year-old gunman, who law enforcement sources identified as Adam Lanza, opened fire on a classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, which serves children from ages...
07:29 AM, Dec 15, 2012
Washington: A law enforcement official says that the 20-year-old suspect in the Connecticut school shootings killed his mother at their home Friday and then drove his mother's car to the school where he went on a deadly rampage. Adam Lanza's mother, Nancy, was a teacher at the school, said the law enforcement official. Meanwhile, in New Jersey, Adam Lanza's older brother, Ryan, 24, of Hoboken, N.J., was questioned by law...
05:32 AM, Dec 15, 2012
