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Newtown, Connecticut is located in Fairfield County. Zip codes in Newtown, CT include 06470. The median home price in Newtown is $439,000 which is roughly $174/per square foot. More Newtown information.

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2 hrs ago | MSNBC

NBC Politics

President Barack Obama signs executive orders with Vice President Joe Biden, left, and invited guests during an event unveiling a package of proposals to reduce gun violence at the White House, Jan.

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7 hrs ago | Connecticut Post

Newtown author's book helps those affected by shootings

Nick Ortner reflects on his best-selling book, "The Tapping Solution," in his Newtown, Conn., home Wednesday, May 8, 2013.

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10 hrs ago | Big News Network.com

List of 81 pistols rifles and shotguns banned by Maryland

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14 hrs ago | The Newtown Bee

The Top of the Mountain

June is National Adopt A Cat month, and I like #1 on the American Humane Society website: If you're thinking about adopting a cat, consider taking home two.

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18 hrs ago | Townhall

Kathryn Lopez: Light in the Darkness

"Beauty draws the human heart and can help ennoble or tear down," Ashley Crouch, an editor at a new magazine called Verily, tells me.

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Fri May 24, 2013

WGAL-TV Lancaster

Newtown school district to get $1.3 million

The Newtown, Connecticut, public school district will receive a $1.3 million endowment to help the community recover from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced Friday in Hartford.

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CNN

Newtown school district to get $1.3 million from Education Department

Connecticut State Police officers search outside St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church in Newtown, Connecticut, on Sunday, December 16, after a threat prompted authorities to evacuate the building.

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The Huffington Post

Marian Wright Edelman: Numb -- Spiritually Dead -- Nation

Ka'Nard Allen has been shot twice in his 10-year-old life. On May 12 he went with his mother to the annual Mother's Day second line parade in New Orleans.

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US News & World Report

Keeping Guns Out of the Wrong Hands With Universal Background Checks

I was heartbroken, along with the rest of the country, over the shooting of 26 innocent adults and children in Newtown, Conn., last December.

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Patch.com

Sandy Hook Police Chief to Speak at Lafayette

How does a town recover when it's the scene of a horrific mass shooting? Michael Kehoe, chief of police in Newtown, Conn., and E. Patricia Llodra, the town's first selectman, with try to answer that question next Wednesday at Easton's Lafayette College .

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Jurist

Connecticut gun control law challenged in federal court

It also limits magazine capacity to 10 rounds. The complaint alleges these new requirement are overly vague which makes them too difficult to follow.

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Philly.com

N.C. couple walks through Philly for gun control

John Phelps is joined by his wife, Judy Phelps and daughter Erin Carmena, near North Broad and Arch Streets, the night before the three will walk to Kennett Square to raise awareness and action around gun control and the safety of children on Wednesday, May 22, 2013.

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Thu May 23, 2013

Westport Now

WN Wins 10 Citations in State Journalism Contest

WestportNow has won 10 citations, including three first place prizes, in the 2012 Society of Professional Journalists Connecticut Chapter Excellence in Journalism competition.

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News Times

Duck race set for Saturday in Newtown

Four thousand plastic ducks hit the waters of the Pootatuck River in Sandy Hook during the annual Great Pootatuck Duck Race.

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CTNow.com

Bill Letting Newtown Families Veto Disclosure Of Records Might Raise Fairness Issues, Officials Say

The secretly drafted bill that would give Newtown massacre victims' families the power to veto disclosure of some investigative records might create a broader precedent - because future crime victims' families could ask for the same power in their less-celebrated cases, the head of the state Freedom of Information Commission said Thursday.

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Connecticut Post

Newtown school system gets $1.3M grant

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $1.3 million grant to the Newtown school system to assist in recovery efforts following the Dec.

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Charleston Daily Mail

Authorities say man invoked Newtown shooting in threat against school

A Raleigh County man is facing a terrorism charge after he allegedly invoked the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn.

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The Newtown Bee

Muddy Angels Make A Special Stop In Newtown

Riders arrive at the Newtown Ambulance Corps garage at 77 Main Street Wednesday afternoon, where one rider offers a "thumbs up." Dana Sellner of Minnesota stood on the curb near Edmond Town Hall Wednesday afternoon, repeating: "The turn is here" to the many bicyclists coming off Main Street following their trip from Waterbury.

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News Times

Barn goes from falling down to fabulous

Just over a month ago, Jennifer Sheehan hired Greg Rosengren to renovate an old barn on her property in Newtown.

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The Newtown Bee

Beautiful Baby Contest Sneak Preview This Weekend

Taryn and Michael Aiello of Oxford were the first parents to enter their children in this year's Beautiful Baby Photo Contest, which this year is raising funds for Newtown's First Responders and the My Sandy Hook Family Fund.

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