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• Sandy Hook students will find blizzard of welcome

  December 30, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A8 HAMDEN, Conn. – Snowflakes made of coiled copy paper, Post-it notes and even Swarovski Crystal pile into a business-park office like an indoor blizzard. They arrive by mail in envelopes …

• Group gathering paper hearts to send to Connecticut town

  December 27, 2012 in Region on Page A6 BILLINGS – It started as a way for one Montana family to talk about the tragic school shooting of 26 children and adults. Now it’s blossoming into an international movement …

• Front Porch: Holiday wish: civil talk on gun control

  December 27, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V1 I am writing these words during the height of the holidays, when families all across America are rejoicing and happy and filled with glad tidings. That may be a bit … 1

• Winthrop coach receives praise

  December 23, 2012 in Sports on Page C9 AUBURN, Ala. – Pat Kelsey’s team had lost a basketball game. But all he could think about was how fathers like him, fathers he didn’t know, recently had lost so …

• Dozens gather in Spokane to honor shooting victims

  December 21, 2012 in City Twenty-six. At one point, there were 26 people gathered this morning on the sidewalk in front of Spokane’s Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes, one week after the Newtown, Conn., … 10

• Medical examiner seeks genetic clues to shooter

  December 19, 2012 in Nation/World HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s chief medical examiner says he’s seeking genetic clues to help explain why a shooter killed 20 children and six adults in a Newtown elementary school. 7

• Buyers rush to firearms dealers

  December 19, 2012 in City on Page A1 Sam Bishop stood Tuesday at the counter of Sharp Shooting Indoor Range and Gun Shop. He was looking at a gun for home security while he felt he still could, … 64

• Some gun backers now signaling support for gun control talks

    December 17, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON — Democrats say meaningful action in the wake of the horrific school shootings in Connecticut must include a ban on military-style assault weapons and a look at how the … 110

• Newtown plans burials as school’s future debated

  December 17, 2012 in Nation/World NEWTOWN, Conn. — A grieving Connecticut town braced itself today to bury the first two of the 20 small victims of an elementary school gunman and debated when classes could … 5

• Obama speaks at Newtown vigil

  December 16, 2012 in News NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — He spoke for a nation in sorrow, but the slaughter of all those little boys and girls left President Barack Obama, like so many others, reaching … 23

• Despite precautions, local schools still feel vulnerability

  December 15, 2012 in City on Page A1 The tragedy in Connecticut could happen here. That’s the reality that struck parents, district officials, teachers and law enforcement in the Inland Northwest Friday as the story unfolded in Newtown, … 54