How to talk to your kids about Conn. mass shooting
The killings at a Connecticut elementary school left parents struggling to figure out what, if anything, to tell their children.

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- At the crossroads that marks the center of this three-century-old New England postcard town stands a flagpole that's a kind of barometer. Every day, says Susan Osborne...
The killings at a Connecticut elementary school left parents struggling to figure out what, if anything, to tell their children.
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The massacre of 26 children and adults at a Connecticut elementary school elicited horror and soul-searching around the world even as it raised more basic questions about why the gunman, a 20-year-old described as brilliant but remote, would have been driven to such a crime and how he chose his victims.
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Authorities say they may be able to release the identities of the victims of the Connecticut school shooting on Saturday morning.
PLAISTOW, N.H. -- Police said Nancy Lanza was the first victim of her son's deadly shooting spree. Twenty-six others were killed in the rampage before the 20-year-old gunman, Adam Lanza, shot himself.
KINGSTON, N.H. -- Newtown, Connecticut gunman, Adam Lanza once lived in Kingston, New Hampshire.
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Officials are identifying the principal as one of the victims in the Connecticut elementary school rampage.
WASHINGTON -- A law enforcement official says some guns owned by the mother of the gunman in the Connecticut elementary school rampage match the models of the guns used in the shooting.
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- A vigil Friday night for the victims of a school massacre in western Connecticut brought out hundreds of community members, including some parents who were struggling with mixed emotions after their own children survived the massacre.
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- At the crossroads that marks the center of this three-century-old New England postcard town stands a flagpole that's a kind of barometer. Every day, says Susan Osborne White, who has lived here all her life, "it tells me which way the wind is blowing" -- and she calls the local newspaper whenever the flag is lowered to half-staff, to ask why.
Stars from several different sports took to Twitter on Friday to try and cope with the school shooting in Connecticut, and the NFL asked each of its teams to observe a moment of silence before this weekend's games to pay respect to the victims.
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.
UNDATED -- A local psychologist says there is one word parents need to remember as local school kids learn of the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut: communication.
SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut will have many schools across the country reevaluating their security.
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Police were present at a second crime scene in Newtown Connecticut just about 2.5 miles from where the deadly elementary school shooting took place.
LITTLETON, Colo. -- A lone police cruiser outside Columbine High School was the only outward reaction Friday to an even deadlier attack at a Connecticut elementary school.
Now and then, thanks to the strange intimacy of technology, there are times in modern American lives when our most momentous and harrowing experiences have been shared.
WINDHAM, N.H. -- There are unconfirmed reports that the shooter in the Newtown, Conn. school massacre entered the building wearing body armor.
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation of the Connecticut school massacre says the brother of the gunman has been "extremely cooperative" and is not under arrest.
WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- After Friday’s deadly shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, some Wakefield police officers talked about how they coped after responding to a mass shooting 12 years ago.