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School Districts Get OK To Arm Guards...Good Or Bad Idea?

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 18th

TRIBLIVE.COM - At least two Pittsburgh area school districts got special permission on Sunday to arm their security officers. "We want to have at least one armed officer at each of our schools, starting tomorrow and every day thereafter," said Butler Area School District Superintendant

Dick's Stores Suspend Sales Of Certain Rifles Nationwide

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 18th

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A sporting goods chain says it's suspending sales of modern rifles nationwide because of the school shooting in Connecticut. Dick's Sporting Goods also says it's removing all guns from display at its store closest to Newtown, where the massacre took

$250K Bail For Washington Teen In Facebook Gun Threat Case

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 18th

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) - A northwest Washington teen is being held on $250,000 bail while authorities investigate his reported Facebook threat to "shoot up every school within a 100-mile radius" if his gun rights were taken away in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting.

Classes resume in Newtown, minus Sandy Hook

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 18th

By DAVID KLEPPER and MICHAEL MELIAAssociated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - Newtown returned its students to their classrooms Tuesday for the first time since last week's massacre and faced the agonizing task of laying others to rest, as this grieving town wrestled with the same issues gripping

Classes resume in Newtown, minus Sandy Hook

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 18th

Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 17th

By BERNARD McGHEEAssociated Press Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables who died in 2012 created images in our minds that remained unchanged over decades. Sadly, for others an

2012: A year of turbulence and altered landscapes

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 17th

By JUSTIN POPEAssociated Press It was a year of storms, of raging winds and rising waters, but also broader turbulence that strained our moorings. Our atmosphere, our politics, our economy - rarely in memory have they seemed in such constant agitation. Our emotions, too. In the year's final

Rifle in Conn. massacre similar to DC sniper

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 17th

By By DAVE COLLINSAssociated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Weapons used by Connecticut gunman Adam Lanza, who killed 20 children and six school workers Friday after killing his mother at their home. Lanza committed suicide in Sandy Hook Elementary School. The primary murder weapon: - Bushmaster

Conn. victims: Lively youngsters, devoted adults

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 17th

By Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - At the very start of their lives, the schoolchildren are remembered for their love of horses, or for the games they couldn't get enough of, or for always saying grace at dinner. The adult victims found their life's work in sheltering little ones

2 funerals begin a sad procession in Connecticut

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 17th

By By ALLEN G. BREED and HELEN O'NEILLAssociated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - Opening a long and almost unbearable procession of grief, Newtown began laying its dead to rest Monday, holding funerals for two 6-year-old boys - one a football fan who was buried in a New York Giants jersey and