All posts tagged "Sandy Hook"

The mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis on Wednesday in which two children were killed and 17 people injured was simply yet another product of too-lax gun laws, said a teacher who survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting nearly 13 years ago.

Abbey Clements, now executive director of Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence, spoke to Raw Story the day after a 23-year-old shooter fired into the church at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis.

The children at the Pre-K-through-eighth-grade school were attending mass. ...

A judge ruled on Friday that far-right conspiracy theorist webcaster Alex Jones cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying out over $1.1 billion in damages to the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims, ABC News reported.

Jones, who runs the InfoWars program, spent years claiming that the Newtown, Connecticut elementary school shooting was staged with child actors, inciting his supporters to hound and harass bereaved parents. They ultimately brought lawsuits against him in multiple jurisdictions, and won massive damages awards.

Last year, Houston bankruptcy judge Christopher López ended a stay that prohibited the Sandy Hook families from collecting a judgment. This week, he followed up with a ruling clarifying bankruptcy protections cannot apply to the judgment....

By Alex Dobuzinskis

By Richard Weizel

A vinyl peace sign installed at a playground in Mystic, Connecticut, dedicated to a victim of the Sandy Hook shooting was stolen last week by a man claiming that the Newtown massacre never happened.

A school board member finally stepped down Tuesday after his plan to hand out free ammunition to honor victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre misfired.