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Education Department giving Newtown $1.3 million

WASHINGTON (AP) — Schools in Newtown, Conn., will receive $1.3 million in federal aid to recover after the shootings that left 26 students and educators dead last year. Education Secretary Arne Duncan planned to announce […]

21 hours ago

Newtown board mulls plans for Sandy Hook school

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Town officials met Friday night to discuss whether to renovate or rebuild the elementary school where 20 first-graders and six educators were shot to death in December or build a new […]

2013/05/04

Volunteers in Newtown hand-writing thank you notes

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Residents of Newtown, Conn., are working to archive and respond to cards letters of condolence received following December’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school.

2013/02/24

New school for Newtown students renamed Sandy Hook

MONROE, Conn. (AP) — Sandy Hook Elementary School parent Vinny Alvarez says he took advantage of an open house at his daughter’s new school to thank a teacher who helped protect her class from a rampaging gunman.

2013/01/02

School officials look to have Sandy Hook kids back in class on 1/3

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — As the community of Newtown, Conn., marks one week since the deaths of 20 children in their classrooms, school officials are looking to getting Sandy Hook students back into class, in a refurbished school in a neighboring town.

2012/12/21

NRA calls for armed police officer in every school

(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.”

2012/12/21

A glimpse of some of Newtown’s victims

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — The schoolchildren are remembered for their love of horses, or for the games they couldn’t get enough of, or for always saying grace at dinner. The adult victims found their life’s work in those little ones.

2012/12/20

Exclusive: Update on Newtown Massacre Investigation

Listen to a replay of a KFWB exclusive conversation with the spokesman for the Connecticut State Police Department. Lt. J. Paul Vance updated Penny Griego and Phil Hulett on the investigation into the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School

2012/12/19

Neighbor took 6 young survivors into his home

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Gene Rosen had just finished feeding his cats and was heading from his home near Sandy Hook Elementary school to a diner when he saw six small children sitting in a neat semicircle at the end of his driveway.

2012/12/17

How You Can Help Conn. Shooting Relief Effort

As KFWB continues to follow the unfolding details of what happened at Sandy Hook and how that community mourns and attempts to recover – there are several ways for you to help now. Here are some of the local non-profits involved.

2012/12/17