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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.

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

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 .

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.