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Well-wishers console Conn. residents on Christmas

Well-wishers console Conn. residents on Christmas
By BROCK VERGAKIS and STEPHEN SINGERAssociated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - This Christmas was unlike any other in Newtown. When a gunman wiped out nearly an entire first-grade class and killed students and adults in two other first-grade classrooms just 11 days before Christmas, it made it

Well-wishers console Conn. residents on Christmas

Well-wishers console Conn. residents on Christmas
By BROCK VERGAKIS and STEPHEN SINGERAssociated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - This Christmas was unlike any other in Newtown. When a gunman wiped out nearly an entire first-grade class and killed students and adults in two other first-grade classrooms just 11 days before Christmas, it made it

Well-wishers console Conn. residents on Christmas

Well-wishers console Conn. residents on Christmas
By BROCK VERGAKIS and STEPHEN SINGERAssociated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - This Christmas was unlike any other in Newtown. When a gunman wiped out nearly an entire first-grade class and killed students and adults in two other first-grade classrooms just 11 days before Christmas, it made it

Well-wishers console Conn. residents on Christmas

Well-wishers console Conn. residents on Christmas
By BROCK VERGAKIS and STEPHEN SINGERAssociated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - This Christmas was unlike any other in Newtown. When a gunman wiped out nearly an entire first-grade class and killed students and adults in two other first-grade classrooms just 11 days before Christmas, it made it

Newtown celebrates Christmas and remembers victims

Newtown celebrates Christmas and remembers victims
By BROCK VERGAKIS and STEPHEN SINGERAssociated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - Newtown celebrated Christmas amid piles of snow-covered teddy bears, long lines of stockings and heaps of flowers as volunteers manned a 24-hour candlelight vigil in memory of the 20 children and six educators gunned down at

Newtown celebrates Christmas and remembers victims

Newtown celebrates Christmas and remembers victims
By BROCK VERGAKIS and STEPHEN SINGERAssociated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - Newtown celebrated Christmas amid piles of snow-covered teddy bears, long lines of stockings and heaps of flowers as volunteers manned a 24-hour candlelight vigil in memory of the 20 children and six educators gunned down at

Newtown celebrates Christmas and remembers victims

Newtown celebrates Christmas and remembers victims
By BROCK VERGAKIS and STEPHEN SINGERAssociated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - Newtown celebrated Christmas amid piles of snow-covered teddy bears, long lines of stockings and heaps of flowers as volunteers manned a 24-hour candlelight vigil in memory of the 20 children and six educators gunned down at

Former Marine guards California school

Former Marine guards California school
By TERRY CHEA and GOSIA WOZNIACKAAssociated Press HUGHSON, Calif. (AP) - A former Marine applauded for voluntarily guarding a central California elementary school apparently misrepresented his service history, U.S. Marine Corps officials said Thursday. Craig Pusley showed up for a second day of

Moments of silence around NFL for shooting victims

Moments of silence around NFL for shooting victims
By By JIMMY GOLENAP Sports Writer FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - The New England Patriots silenced their "End Zone Militia" on Sunday night, taking the muskets away from the Revolutionary War re-enactors who fire into the air to celebrate every score. The memory of the Connecticut school shooting was

Storm spins death and 'a lot of tears' along path

Storm spins death and 'a lot of tears' along path
By CHRISTOPHER SULLIVANAssociated Press Death blew in on the superstorm's wild winds and sea water torrents, claiming 90-year-olds and children with capriciously toppling trees, taking tall-ship adventurers in mountainous Atlantic waves and average folks just trying to deal with a freakish