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Adam Lanza beaten and taunted by classmates while a student at Sandy Hook Elementary School

A relative of Adam Lanza has revealed that the Newtown gunman had been beaten and taunted by his fellow classmates…

11 years ago

Sandy Hook mother Francine Wheeler replaces Barack Obama for presidential weekly address

Francine Wheeler, the mother of a victim of last year's Sandy Hook shootings, has replaced President Barack Obama to deliver…

11 years ago

US Senate begins gun control debate

The US Senate has begun debate on a proposal to expand criminal background checks on gun buyers. The bipartisan move…

11 years ago

Connecticut approves gun control measures in response to Newtown shooting

Connecticut lawmakers have approved gun control measures, which campaigners say are the strictest in America, following December Sandy Hook massacre. The…

11 years ago

Newtown shooting: type of weapons used by gunman Adam Lanza

Adam Lanza, the young man who killed 27 people in a massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut,…

11 years ago

Adam Lanza’s body claimed for burial by anonymous person

The body of Adam Lanza, the man who killed 27 people - including 20 children and his own mother –…

11 years ago

Connecticut shooting: Democrats Dan Malloy and Dianne Feinstein urge wider gun control

Senior US Democrats Dan Malloy and Dianne Feinstein have called for stricter gun control following Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings…

11 years ago

Barack Obama to join families of Sandy Hook shooting victims at vigil in Newtown

President Barack Obama is scheduled to travel to Newtown, Connecticut tonight to meet the families of victims killed in Friday's…

11 years ago

Connecticut shooting heroes: Dawn Hochsprung, Mary Sherlach and Victoria Soto sacrificed their lives to protect pupils

Three teachers murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School all died heroes trying to save their students from gunman Adam Lanza…

11 years ago