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Decade After Sandy Hook Shooting, New Tech Giving CT School Added ‘Layer Of Security' Decade After Sandy Hook Shooting, New Tech Giving CT School Added ‘Layer Of Security'
Decade After Sandy Hook Shooting, New Tech Giving CT School Added ‘Layer Of Security' Gun control advocates will tell you that not much has changed since a 20-year-old gunman walked into a Connecticut elementary school and murdered 20 students and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown on Dec. 14, 2012. Since that day, another 279 people have died in 189 different shootings that have occurred at schools across the United States, BBC News reports. Among them are the 19 students and two teachers who were killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in May 2022. What has changed, though, is the technology that’s available to schools to help keep students a…

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by Michael Mashburn
Schools
Fairfield County Joins March For Our Lives Protest With Local Events Fairfield County Joins March For Our Lives Protest With Local Events
Fairfield County Joins March For Our Lives Protest With Local Events The spotlight will be on Washington, D.C., on Saturday, March 24 for March For Our Lives events protesting gun violence and school shootings, there are several events in and around Fairfield County scheduled to coincide with the large turnout expected in the nation's capital. Here's a rundown: Stamford: Noon. Mill River Park, 1055 Washington Blvd. Westport: 6:30 p.m. at 20 Wilton Road Shelton: 12:30 p.m. Veterans Memorial Park, 38 Canal St. New York City: 10 a.m. Central Park West and 72nd Street Hartford: 12:30 p.m. State Capitol, 210 Capitol Ave.

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by Daily Voice
Obituaries
Names Released Of 17 Victims Of Deadliest School Shooting Since Sandy Hook Names Released Of 17 Victims Of Deadliest School Shooting Since Sandy Hook
Names Released Of 17 Victims Of Deadliest School Shooting Since Sandy Hook Bergen County Teen Alyssa Alhadeff Killed In Parkland School Shooting The names of the 17 people -- 14 students and three adults -- who were killed and 15 injured in Wednesday's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were released Thursday. It was the deadliest school shooting rampage since a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in December, 2012. Among the students killed by a 19-year-old suspect and former student at the school in Florida were Nicholas Dworet, a senior swimming captain, who had just accepted a college schola…

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by Joe Lombardi