Newtown Schools Back In Session After Shooting, But Without Sandy Hook

Every team across the NFL Sunday held a moment of silence prior to their game, in honor of the victims of Friday's violence at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The Patriots will close Sunday by firing 26

Newtown Bee Associate Editor Shannon Hicks was at the newspaper's offices about a mile and a quarter from Sandy Hook Elementary when she heard about a possible shooting at the school. Hicks, a volunteer firefighter for the last . But I wish we would take all the energy being put into “wear this color on Monday” and channel that into holding politicians' feet to the fire over better oversight of the mentally ill and their access to weapons. That would be a much more

Frank Kulick walks past a display of wooden crosses and a Jewish Star of David, representing the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, on his front lawn on Monday in Newtown, Conn. (Photo: David Goldman, AP). As the nation mourns the

The mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut is a tragic event that is particularly painful as it comes at a time when people across the world are trying to focus on the upcoming holidays as the season of peace bringing good tidings of great joy. Three

Buses ferrying students to schools were festooned with large green-and-white ribbons on the front grills, the colors of Sandy Hook, as classes resumed for all Newtown schools except the stricken elementary school. At Newtown High School, students in