It’s a year to the day since Kaitlin Roig barricaded herself and 15 first-graders in a bathroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School, hiding from a gunman who would go on to kill 26 in an 11-minute rampage.

A YEAR on, dolls fill the shelves of a living room and flowers and rainbows decorate a kitchen window next to a little girl’s name: Avielle.

Recordings of emergency calls made during the Connecticut primary school massacre reveal terrified callers being urged to take cover amid gunshots in the background.

Sandy Hook Elementary School has been completely demolished — but one year after the shootings, Americans are as obsessed as ever with guns, says Suzanne Harrington.

Adam Lanza may have hinted at his deadly plans online in the days before last year’s Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in the US.

More than 100 family and friends gathered at a church to remember the woman whose son massacred 20 children and six teachers in a Connecticut elementary school last year.

A week after her father, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, allegedly set off a bomb at the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring hundreds, three-year-old Zahara Tsarnaev was seen happily playing on a slide in her grandmother’s yard in Rhode Island.

Connecticut lawmakers have approved wide-ranging legislation in response to last year’s deadly school shooting in Newtown.

Connecticut is expected to pass a package of gun control and other laws described by supporters as the most comprehensive in the US.

Barack Obama urged politicians to remember child shooting victims and not weaken in the face of a powerful gun lobby as he reached out to moderate members of his own party before a Senate vote on gun controls expected next month.

Former US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords met families of victims of the Connecticut school massacre that left 26 people dead, nearly two years after she was critically wounded in a mass shooting.

Children who escaped the Connecticut massacre are returning to classes today in a refurbished school named after their old one.

The body of the man who killed 26 people at a Connecticut primary school has been claimed for burial.

US President Barack Obama pledged to put his “full weight” behind a legislative package next year aimed at tackling gun violence, recalling the school gun rampage that killed 20 young pupils as the worst day of his presidency.

Christmas has helped some people in the grieving Connecticut town of Newtown cope a little better with the shooting tragedy that killed 20 schoolchildren, while others have yet to feel the holiday joy.

America’s largest gun rights lobby declared unwavering opposition to any new restrictions in the aftermath of the Connecticut primary school massacre, accusing the White House of trying to undermine the constitutional right to bear arms.

Gun enthusiasts thronged to shows around the United States over the weekend to buy assault weapons they fear will soon be outlawed after a massacre of school children in Connecticut prompted calls for tighter controls on firearms.

As Americans paused for the one-week anniversary of the Connecticut school massacre, new details emerged about gunman, Adam Lanza, who could take apart and reassemble a computer in a matter of minutes, but rarely spoke to anyone.

The most powerful gun-rights lobby in the US said it wants to address gun violence by having an armed police officer in every school in the country.

After the Connecticut school massacre, Ken Larson and his wife bought their son an armoured backpack — even though he’s one.

President Barack Obama is “actively supportive” of reinstating an assault weapons ban, the White House said, as the United States wrestled with the treacherous issue of gun control in the aftermath of the Connecticut primary school massacre.

Students returned to school in the shattered Connecticut town of Newtown for the first time since a gunman’s rampage killed 26 people in an elementary school, altering the gun control debate in Washington and forcing a retailer to pull guns from shelves.

The powerful US gun lobby felt the first backlash from the Newtown massacre today when a leading private equity group decided to sell its stake in the company that made the killer’s assault rifle.

A town has begun to bury its dead, laying to rest the first of the 20 children killed in the Connecticut school massacre.

Prominent gun rights advocates in the US government are now calling for a national discussion about curbing gun violence - signalling that the Connecticut primary school massacre could be a tipping point in a debate dormant for years.

At the bar, everybody knew her name.

California resident Ryan Kraft was given a stark warning by the Lanza family when he used to babysit Adam Lanza.

As America, one more time, pays a very heavy price for its trenchant belief in the right of citizens to own military-grade firearms, the rest of the world looks on with sadness and amazement.

The Connecticut town shattered by the school massacre held its first two funerals today.

The shattered community of Newtown was holding its first two funerals today, including one for the youngest victim.

President Barack Obama has signalled his intention to bring in gun control laws in the wake of the Newtown massacre, saying he will use “whatever power” he has to prevent a repeat.

A mournful Barack Obama has told Newtown the United States is failing to keep its children safe, pledging that change must come after an elementary school massacre left 20 children dead.

The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage shot his mother four times in the head before going to the school and gunning down 26, authorities said yesterday as details emerged suggesting that Adam Lanza had planned an even more gruesome massacre.

A worker who turned on the intercom, alerting others something was wrong.

WHEN Barack Obama, hours after the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, talked of the need for “meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this”, half the world nodded in agreement.

The father of the gunman in the Connecticut school rampage says his family is struggling to make sense of what happened.

At Newtown High School, Adam Lanza had trouble relating to fellow students and teachers, according to various witnesses, but that was only part of his problem.

Evidence has been found that could help explain the motives of the lone gunman behind one of the worst mass school shootings in American history, police said today.

The massacre of 26 children and adults at an elementary school in the US state of Connecticut elicited horror and soul-searching around the world even as it raised questions about why the gunman, a 20-year-old described as brilliant but remote, would have been driven to such a crime and how he chose his victims, some as young as five.

Some parents who lost children in the Sandy Hook shooting may never recover from the pain of their death, an expert in post-traumatic stress said today.

Police in Connecticut have said the gunman who killed 20 children at a school in America was "remote" and may have suffered from a personality disorder.

Hundreds of people have attended a church vigil in Connecticut to remember the victims of the school shooting that left 27 people dead.

The head of the Connecticut primary school devastated by a shooting rampage was among the victims, an official said today.

One of the worst school shootings in US history has left 20 children and eight adults dead. The children were all aged between five and 10.