NEW YORK -- "Chester Raccoon stood at the edge of the forest and cried. `I don't want to go to school,' he told his mother. `I want to stay home with you. I want to play with my friends...
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- 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 massacre that has shaken the community -- and the nation -- to its core.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says his administration has received an outpouring of support for stricter gun laws following last week's elementary school massacre in Connecticut, telling respondents to an online petition, "We hear you."
ATLANTA -- As President Barack Obama urges tighter federal gun laws, state legislators around the country have responded to the Connecticut school shooting with a flurry of their own ideas that are likely to produce fights over gun control in their upcoming sessions.
BOSTON -- 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.
WASHINGTON -- One week after the mass shootings that killed 26 people at a Connecticut elementary school -- 20 of them children -- the nation's largest gun-rights lobby is returning to the spotlight as Congress prepares to consider tighter restrictions on firearms in the new year.
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- When people here speak of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, they use the number 26: the ones killed after Adam Lanza stormed his way into the school.
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- People from around the country have traveled to Newtown to offer their help to the community after the school shooting on Friday. Others have donated to charities or helped set up funds in the victims' honor. One man from the deep south decided to take it one step further.
The community of Newtown, Conn., is in the thick of funerals and memorial services for the 26 children and adults killed Friday at an elementary school. A look at the services held Thursday:
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder is heading to Newtown, Conn., to meet with first responders and law enforcement officials about last week's school shooting.
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- While the people of Newtown do their best to cope with loss and preserve the memories of their loved ones, another class of residents is also finding it difficult to move on: the emergency responders who saw firsthand the terrible aftermath of last week's school shooting.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says the massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn., obligates the nation to finally act to reduce gun violence. He's outlined only a broad plan so far, leaving specific proposals until next month.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Connecticut's chief medical examiner says arrangements are being made out of state for the burial of the mother of Adam Lanza, who fatally shot 20 children and six adults in a Newtown elementary school.
BOSTON -- Sen. Scott Brown says he now supports a federal assault weapons ban.
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Five days after 20 children and six adults were gunned down by a lone gunman, the funerals for those lost in the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting continue.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- For much of his hour-long visit with the family of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Connecticut school shootings, Victor Cruz talked about football, life and young Jack, the child who idolized him.
RED LAKE, Minn. -- A group of young adults from Minnesota with a keen understanding of the pain felt in Newtown, Conn., are traveling to the East Coast to let those affected by the elementary school massacre know that they're not alone.
BOSTON -- Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren is backing a bill reinstating a national assault weapons ban.
CANTON, Ohio -- A former Ohio high school basketball coach who pleaded guilty to videotaping boys in a locker room shower for years has been sentenced to 15 years in prison -- and must give $5,000 to the Connecticut community where a gunman killed 26 people.
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- One by one by one by one, each with fresh heartbreak, hearses crisscrossed two New England towns on Wednesday, bearing three tiny victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre and a heroic teacher in a seemingly never-ending series of funeral processions.