Newtown

The Connecticut Attorney General’s Office is planning to take the unusual step of going to court to remove a labor union as the distributor of a fund designed to help Sandy Hook shooting first responders and teachers.

Ten years since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the mother of one victim marked the day by breaking ground on the headquarters for an animal sanctuary she started in memory of her daughter.

Ten years after the mass school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the town has erected a memorial that incorporates many of the gifts sent to the community after the tragedy.

A memorial to the 20 first graders and six educators killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has opened to the public, a month before the 10th anniversary of the massacre.

The trial for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who called the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax, began Tuesday in Waterbury Superior Court.

A federal bankruptcy judge on Monday cleared the way for a defamation lawsuit in Connecticut to proceed against Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

The detective who led the investigation into the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School attack testified Tuesday that there are three types of people who deny that it happened and harass the victims' families: the mentally ill, those who believed bad or incomplete information, and those who knew the truth but twisted it for their own “power or money.” Investigators put conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in that final group.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was defiant and cited free speech rights during a deposition in April, as part of a lawsuit by relatives of some of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims suing Jones for calling the massacre a hoax.

The Senior Paw Project provides seniors with resources to help take care of their pets. It was started by the mother of a child who died in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has ordered U.S. and state flags lowered to half-staff in honor of a longtime Newtown fire chief who died after returning home from a call.