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Speaking at a Connecticut university near the elementary school where the December mass shooting took place, Vice President Joseph R. Biden urged legislators across the country Thursday to move on gun control, warning that "there's a moral price to be paid for inaction."
Two Northeastern governors aren't waiting for Washington to pass new gun-control laws.
Pennsylvania's attorney general said she granted Gov. Tom Corbett the authority to file a federal antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA because the litigation could present a conflict of interest as her office prosecutes three Penn State administrators.
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The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage shot his mother multiple times in the head before going to the school and gunning down 26, authorities said Sunday as details emerged suggesting that Adam Lanza had planned an even more gruesome massacre but was stopped short.
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In one of the most grisly and terrifying school shootings in the nation's history, a lone gunman entered a small-town Connecticut elementary school Friday morning and killed more than 26 people, including 20 children in his mother's kindergarten classroom and another room, according to law enforcement officials and multiple press reports.
With American children continuing to lag behind their international peers, governors from both parties on Monday joined the Obama administration in embracing more classroom time for students.
For Democrats, this week's convention is an opportunity to meet, greet and put a collective best foot forward to the national electorate. For Republicans, it's an opportunity to poke and prod, issue rebuttals, and generally make like the snarky Stadler and Waldorf from "The Muppet Show."
Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy has signed a bill expanding the off-premise sale of beer, wine and liquor on Sundays. Like Indiana, Connecticut previously only allowed carry-out sales of wine at wineries and beer at small breweries on Sundays.
Mitt Romney is working to win over his former rivals.
Former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is going into business with two other top officials from the George W. Bush administration.
Connecticut has yielded to requests from American Indian tribes seeking a larger law enforcement role at two of the country's largest casinos, slashing the amount the resorts will have to pay the state back for the services of state police troopers and other security agents, officials said Monday.
Aides to Connecticut's governor say they perceived the words of a New Jersey blogger as a real threat.
"The Sandy Hook tragedy happened in a school, but we don't want the next time[to] happen in a movie theater or a shopping mall or @ a ballgame or on a street corner, for that matter, in any one of Connecticut's cities or towns," Mr. Malloy said.
"When it comes to preventing future acts of violence in our schools, let me say this: More guns are not the answer. Freedom is not a handgun on the hip of every teacher, and security should not mean a guard posted outside every classroom," said Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy.
