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Education Secretary Asks For Reasonable Gun Limits

WASHINGTON (AP) - Education Secretary Arne Duncan says the country needs to reevaluate its values and consider common-sense gun control measures after a mass shooting at a Connecticut school.    Duncan was speaking at a Washington elementary school one week after the massacre at

Travelers hope to be on their way after snowstorm

By SARA BURNETTAssociated Press CHICAGO (AP) - Travelers facing canceled flights and closed roads were hoping to finally head to their holiday destinations Friday as a widespread snowstorm that dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of the Midwest moved across the Great Lakes toward Canada. The

NRA calls for armed police officer in every school

By PHILIP ELLIOTT and NEDRA PICKLERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Guns and police officers in all American schools are what's needed to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings," the National Rifle Association declared Friday, taking a no-retreat stance in the face of growing calls for

Pension funds reconsider investments in gun makers

By MICHAEL GORMLEYAssociated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - From California to New York, teacher and public-worker retirement funds are reconsidering their investments in gun makers and confronting an uncomfortable fact: Their pensions have supported the manufacture of deadly weapons, in some cases the