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Burlington Town Meeting voted to appropriate funds to be used to increase school security during the Wednesday session of the annual May Town Meeting.

In the aftermath of the gut-wrenching massacre of 20 elementary school children and six adult staff members, last December, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in ways big and small Americans' cultural views on guns have remained the same.

More than five months after the Sandy Hook shootings, the town clerk's office is steadfast in its refusal to release death certificates for those slain Dec.

Colorado sheriffs upset with gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year's mass shootings filed a federal lawsuit Friday, challenging the regulations as unconstitutional.

DANBURY, Conn. Although no district felt the impact harder than Newtown, teachers in Danbury lost friends and colleagues as well in last December's massacre at Sandy Hook.

Gov. Bill Haslam has signed a bill into law that will allow teachers with law enforcement training to carry weapons in classrooms.

Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley on Thursday signed into law one of the United States' toughest gun control measures, even as opponents vowed to overturn it.

FAIRFIELD, Conn. Fairfield Police have filed new charges against a man accused of committing a string of burglaries in Fairfield, Westport and other towns last fall.

Members of Connecticut's congressional delegation are attempting to secure federal funds to help Newtown build a new elementary school after last year's massacre -- and they say senators owe the residents after failing to support legislation that would have expanded background checks for certain gun purchases.

Public schools, already required to have written crisis management plans, will now have to coordinate those plans with local law enforcement and emergency preparedness officials - and hold annual safety drills to rehearse them.

Little-Used State Laws in California Can Help Keep Weapons Off the Street - BB&K Attorney Laura Crane and Law Enforcement Specialist Paul Cappitelli Explain How Cities and Police Agencies Can Tap Into the Laws Gun violence is rampant in the news.

"If it bleeds, it leads." That has been the journalistic mantra for ages and that axiom has been applied intensively and often recently.

Holding signs that read "never forget Newtown" and "no gun is worth the life of a child," local residents protested a lack of congressional action on gun control regulation Tuesday.

Today he'll play in The 3rd Annual Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup in Greenwich, Connecticut for Sentebale , a charity he launched to benefit needy children in Lesotho.

Legislation allowing guns on college campuses bounced back to life in the Senate on Tuesday as a House-passed bill moved closer to a vote on the Senate floor with less than two weeks left in the session.

Vice President Joe Biden has been on the front lines of the gun violence debate since the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in December.

Director of Special Services Christopher Kinney, Cedar Grove Sgt. John Kennedy and Bill Fearon deliver a presentation at Cedar Grove High School on May 13.

The fate of legislation being urged by the Newtown town clerk to restrict the public's access to death certificates appears to be in doubt as the General Assembly inches toward adjournment.

A woman has been charged with fraud for posing as the aunt of a Connecticut school shooting victim and soliciting donations, prosecutors said.

The Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority will host its next Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day on Saturday, May 18, in Newtown.