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A bomb threat led to the evacuation of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

With a California town grieving the deaths of six college students killed by a mentally ill man, one victim’s father blamed the killings on politicians who failed to tighten gun laws after a mass school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

Police said that they prevented an "unimaginable tragedy" by foiling a teenager’s elaborate plot to kill his family and bomb the junior and senior high school in the southern Minnesota city of Waseca.

Bombing victim Erika Brannock is going back to where she was standing for last year’s Boston Marathon, so that she can move on, writes Abigail Jones.

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.

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.

Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl are back for more action in Mark Millar’s comic book sequel, which packs more of a punch than the first film.

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 visibly infuriated President Barack Obama surrounded himself with tear-stained parents of Connecticut school shooting victims and declared it a “pretty shameful day for Washington” after the Senate rejected a measure designed to make it tougher for criminals to get their hands on guns.

Homes in the US town where a crazed gunman killed 26 people, 20 of them children, have been receiving automated phone calls from the National Rifle Association gun lobby.

Áine McKeever was only 10 at the time but she remembers being in awe of Victoria Mallet.

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.

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.

Hollywood's A-list has banded together in a new video campaigning against gun violence in the US.

Gene Rosen was heading from his home to a diner when he saw six children sitting in a semi-circle at the end of his driveway.

The University of Connecticut is creating a scholarship fund for students from Sandy Hook Elementary school in the state, where 20 students and six members of staff were gunned down last week.

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

Just days after the deaths of 26 people, including 20 children, at a school in Connecticut, a second campus in the state is in lockdown.

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.

Most died at the very start of their young lives, tiny victims taken in a way not fit for anyone regardless of age.

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.

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