Delayed by war, Class of 1943 finally holds senior prom
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It took seven decades, but the Hillhouse High School Class of 1943 finally had its senior prom.
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60 injured, five critically, as trains collide in Connecticut
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Sixty people were injured, five of them critically, and rail traffic from New York to Boston was shut down after a Metro-North commuter train derailed and plowed into a second train Friday in Fairfield, Conn., Gov. Dan Malloy said.
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Virgin birth or hanky-panky? Anteater mom sparks a scientific debate
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Is it a case of anteater virgin birth, a hormonal quirk or just some desperate hanky-panky? Whatever it is, Armani the anteater’s surprising pregnancy has sparked a debate over what animals are capable of when it comes to sex.
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‘I will chain my body to it’: Sandy Hook Elementary’s future sparks passion
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The emotionally charged question of whether to reopen the Sandy Hook Elementary School building, where 20 first-graders and six staffers were massacred, was discussed during a closed-door session Friday night.
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Connecticut governor signs comprehensive gun control legislation
Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy signed a broad new package of gun laws Thursday in the state where 20 children and 6 educators were slain in a brutal school shooting nearly four months ago.
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Connecticut lawmakers reach deal on ‘most comprehensive’ gun limits in US
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Lawmakers’ proposed bill includes a ban on high-capacity magazines like those Adam Lanza used during his Newtown killing spree, a registry for existing high-capacity magazines and background checks for private gun sales.
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‘Grandfather clause’ in Connecticut gun bill angers Sandy Hook families
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Lawmakers and families of the victims of the deadly shootings last year at a Connecticut elementary school were divided Monday over reported compromise legislation that would ban some but not all high-capacity ammunition magazines in the state.
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Danger not over as Northeast digs out after storm
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Ten deaths are blamed on the blizzard, including a boy killed by carbon monoxide; hundreds of thousands still without power.
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‘it’s going to be crippling’: huge storm closes in on northeast
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With more than 50 million Americans in its path and Boston in the crosshairs, a dangerous winter storm churned Friday into the Northeast, where thousands of schools were closed and thousands of flights canceled as forecasters warned of a whiteout.
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Sandy Hook students return: New principal, new building, old desks
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For the first time in almost three weeks, students from Sandy Hook Elementary School did something Thursday that had once seemed so natural: They went to school.
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NRA chief: If putting armed police in schools is crazy, ‘then call me crazy’
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On NBC’s Meet the Press, National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre on Sunday refused to support new gun control legislation and maintained his support for putting armed guards and police in schools in response to the Dec. 14 school shootings in Newtown, Conn.
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Armed guards, locked entryways, cameras: Schools seek security after Sandy Hook
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The NRA’s call to put armed police officers in every public school in America has further intensified the debate over how to protect our nation’s children in class, with some districts saying they’re preparing to take just that action and other educators cautioning that doing so sends the wrong message about education.
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Michelle Obama’s letter to Newtown: ‘My heart aches for you’
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A week after the Newtown school shooting in which a young man fatally shot 27 people – 20 of them children – Michelle Obama has penned an open letter to Newtown residents.
Titled “Holding You in Our Hearts,” the first lady praises the heroism shown by residents over the last week and assures the Connecticut community that she and the president are thinking of them “every minute of every day.”
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Defiant NRA leader rejects gun controls, asks to put police in schools
National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre defiantly blamed violent video games and movies, the media, gun-free zones in schools and other factors during the organization’s first public statement following the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn. last week.
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