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School Shooter Attended College Classes as 16-Year-Old

School Shooter Attended College Classes as 16-Year-Old Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who killed 20 children and six adults in a rampage at a Connecticut elementary school, took six classes at Western Connecticut State University in 2008 and 2009, beginning when he was just 16, and had a grade point average of 3.26.


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School Safety Questioned After Shooting

School Safety Questioned After Shooting Along with fire drills, schools have been conducting lock down drills -- often known as active shooter drills -- since the Columbine massacre in 1999. But safety officials do not agree yet on what teachers and students should do when a homicidal gunman invades their school.


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Shooting Sparks Weapons Ban Talk

Shooting Sparks Weapons Ban Talk The elementary school shooting in Newtown, CT has opened the politically explosive subject of gun control and the second amendment in the United States. That debate took center stage on the Sunday Talk Shows, where California Senator Diane Feinstein said she intended to introduce a gun control bill on the first day of the next Congress.


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Lochte Leaves Worlds With 6 Golds

Lochte Leaves Worlds With 6 Golds Olympic champion Ryan Lochte wins 6 golds, 1 silver at short-course worlds in Turkey


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Obama Travels to Conn. as US Struggles Over Gun Control

Obama Travels to Conn. as US Struggles Over Gun Control President Obama is expected to travel to a mourning Newtown, Conn., this evening for memorial services, as the nation pieces together the circumstances that led to a gunman taking the lives of 20 young children and six adults Friday at the community’s Sandy Hook Elementary...


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Moments of Silence Around NFL

Moments of Silence Around NFL Moments of silence observed around NFL for shooting victims


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School Yoga Tries to Avoid Controversy

School Yoga Tries to Avoid Controversy Calif. school district bends over backward to avoid religion controversy in kids' yoga classes


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Full Episode: GMA 12/16: Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting Triggers Gun Control Debate

Full Episode: GMA 12/16: Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting Triggers Gun Control Debate Pastor Explains How Girl Played Dead to Survive; Adam Lanza Got Guns From Mother


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Watch: Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting: The Spirit of Community

Watch: Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting: The Spirit of Community Lara Spencer shares the strength and kindness observed in Newtown, Conn.


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Diet Pepsi Quietly Changes Sweetener

Diet Pepsi Quietly Changes Sweetener PepsiCo quietly changes sweetener in Diet Pepsi ahead of major brand relaunch


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Americans Tried to Buy 2M Guns in November Alone

Americans Tried to Buy 2M Guns in November Alone ABC News' Pierre Thomas looks into the spotlight the Connecticut shooting has placed on America's thriving gun community.


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Willow Bay: How to Talk to Your Kids About the Connecticut Shooting

Willow Bay: How to Talk to Your Kids About the Connecticut Shooting The shooting of 20 first graders and their teachers in Newtown, Conn. -  all killed while in what was supposed to be a safe learning environment, may leave children worried and with plenty of questions for their parents. Willow Bay, journalist and author of the book...


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Worshippers Hurry From Conn. Church, Citing Threat

Worshippers Hurry From Conn. Church, Citing Threat Worshippers hurriedly leave church not far from Conn. elementary school, citing bomb threat


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Watch: Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting: Americans and Guns

Watch: Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting: Americans and Guns Pierre Thomas looks into the spotlight the Connecticut shooting has placed on America's thriving gun community.


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Watch: Roundtable I: Reflecting on Newtown

Watch: Roundtable I: Reflecting on Newtown Rep. Donna Edwards, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Joe Klein, George Will, and Donna Brazile.


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3 Elderly Mennonites Attacked

3 Elderly Mennonites Attacked Police: 1 person charged with bias crime against 3 elderly Mennonite women attacked in Pa.


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Conservative Party Wins in Japan

Conservative Party Wins in Japan TOKYO — Japan’s conservative Liberal Democratic Party staged a dramatic comeback today, winning a landslide victory in the powerful lower house of Parliament, just three years after it was ousted from power. Exit polls showed the main opposition party en route to secure a two-thirds...


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