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After Sandy Hook, Connecticut lawmakers vote to shield victim photos

MILFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) - The Connecticut General Assembly overwhelmingly approved compromise legislation on Wednesday to prevent public release of homicide victim photos, videos and some audiotapes in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting rampage.Full story

Task force urges rebuilding Sandy Hook Elementary on site of massacre

NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - A special task force of elected town officials recommended on Friday tearing down Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 young children and six adults were shot to death in December, and rebuilding the school on the site of the massacre. Full story

Newtown heroes honored with Citizen Honors Medal

  Six educators from Sandy Hook Elementary School were honored by the congressional Medal of Honor Society with the highest award it gives to a civilian. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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Moment of silence for Sandy Hook Elementary victims

LIVE VIDEO: Moment of silence for Sandy Hook Elementary victims (9:30aET)

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  Local task force to decide future of Sandy Hook Elementary School

NBC’s Michelle Franzen discusses whether local authorizes will decide to keep the Sandy Hook Elementary School building, where a gunman shot and killed 20 children and six adults, closed for good.

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ATTENTION EDITORS - REUTERS PICTURE HIGHLIGHT TRANSMITTED BY 0545 GMT ON JUNE 15, 2013EMZ110Street artist Mark Panzarino, 41, prepares a memorial as he writes the names of the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims during the six-month anniversary of the massacre, at Union Square in New York. REUTE

Street artist Panzarino prepares a memorial as he writes the names of the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims during the six-month anniversary of the massacre, at Union Square in New York
Street artist Panzarino prepares a memorial as he writes the names of the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims during the six-month anniversary of the massacre, at Union Square in New York

Street artist Mark Panzarino, 41, prepares a memorial as he writes the names of the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims during the six-month anniversary of the massacre, at Union Square in New York, June 14, 2013. Six months after a gunman killed 26 children and adults at the elementary school, fam

Newtown Residents Mark 6-Month Anniversary Of Sandy Hook Shootings
Newtown Residents Mark 6-Month Anniversary Of Sandy Hook Shootings

NEWTOWN, CT - JUNE 14: People attend a remembrance event on the six month anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School on June 14, 2013 in Newtown, Connecticut. A a 26-second moment of silence was observed to honor the 20 children and six adults who were killed at the school on Dec.