Newtown

The Town Council has approved a proposal to rename a local school for a teacher killed in the Newtown, Conn., school shootings.

In response to the deadly Connecticut school shooting in Newtown, and other recent tragedies, legislation introduced this week is meant to ensure the mental stability of anyone authorized to purchase a firearm in the Garden State.

Lawmakers throughout the nation are still scrambling to draft legislation that might help avert tragic situations like recent the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

Do we need to consider adopting stricter gun laws across the nation– especially after what happened in Newtown, Connecticut recently?

Four gun shows about an hour's drive from Newtown, Conn., have been canceled.

The Newtown tragedy has us all very mindful of supposed acts of violence…even ones that are “playful” in nature…like the ubiquitous “bang, bang, I shot you dead” with the finger routine. It’s happened again…this time in Maryland where one 6 year old was suspended from Silver Spring school for pointing his finger at another child as though he were holding a gun...

Newtown is trying to keep Sandy Hook Elementary school students occupied with fun activities while they remain out of school following the massacre at their school.

It's a tale of two townships, and their different responses to school safety in the wake of the Newtown, Ct. massacre. Question: which approach would you prefer…to have a police officer stationed in each school district wide; or to have police patrolling the district, and stopping at each school to check on things...

New Jersey and the nation will mark the one week anniversary of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut with a moment of silence at 9:30AM, the time at which Adam Lanza began his murderous rampage that left 27 dead inclulding his mother...

Five funerals were scheduled today for those who died at the Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday while another moving performance pays tribute to the victims.