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Published December 18, 2012
The gunman who slaughtered 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school may have snapped because his mother was planning to commit him to a psychiatric facility, according to a lifelong resident of the area who was familiar with the killer’s family and several of the victims’ families.
Published December 16, 2012
A mass in Newtown, Conn., was temporarily evacuated Sunday after a caller "threatened to kill people in the church," according to a church spokesman.
Published December 14, 2012
In a picturesque Connecticut town that could have inspired Norman Rockwell in another era, parents and neighbors clung to each other for support and wondered how such unspeakable evil could have descended on their youngest residents.
Published December 14, 2012
Principal Dawn Hochsprung was in a meeting Friday morning when gunshots pierced the quiet halls of her elementary school in an idyllic Connecticut town. Minutes later, the 47-year-old educator and mother, along with 25 others, lay dead after a gunman opened fire in one of the worst mass shootings in the nation's history.
Published December 07, 2012
The Secret Service is the target of an investigation into an "immense breach" involving the loss of two backup computer tapes left on a Washington, D.C., Metro train that contained sensitive personal information about all agency employees, contacts and overseas informants, according to multiple law enforcement and congressional sources.
Published November 30, 2012
An Internet blackout and complete lack of phone service has not stopped the infamous international hacker group Anonymous from its cyberwar on the Syrian regime.
Published November 28, 2012
A group of veterans from New Jersey are building the state’s first nonprofit cemetery—a graveyard exclusively for men and women who have served their country.
Published November 15, 2012
As President Obama visits Staten Island today to buck up devastated victims of superstorm Sandy, Tarek Moustafa and MaryLou Wang, Obama supporters whose home was destroyed nearly three weeks ago, feel like the federal government has turned its back on them.
Published November 06, 2012
As election returns trickled in, nearly 200 New Yorkers left homeless by superstorm Sandy could not have felt more powerless as they huddled inside a makeshift shelter in the city’s Staten Island borough.
Published November 06, 2012
Voters still reeling from superstorm Sandy doggedly made their way to makeshift polls even as they tried to rebuild their lives and gird for a winter storm, with one saying their right to cast ballots “is the only thing I have left.”