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FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2012 file photo, a school bus rolls toward a memorial in Newtown, Conn., for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Nearly three weeks after the shooting rampage, classes are starting Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 for the Sandy Hook students at a repurposed school in the neighboring town of Monroe, where the students' desks have been taken along with backpacks and other belongings that were left behind in the chaos following the shooting on Dec. 14. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Sandy Hook students, teachers head back to school

Pat EatonRobb, John Christoffersen · January 1, 2013 5:00 am

From left, Naveera Karim, Ayesha Akhtar and Anwar Abdulrehman, members of the Islamic Society of Western Connecticut, attend an interfaith prayer vigil to remember the victims of the Sandy Hook elementary school shootings Friday, Dec. 28, 2012 in Newtown, Conn. Friday morning marked two weeks since a gunman killed 20 children and six educators at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. (AP Photo/Danbury News-Times, Carol Kaliff)

Vigil marks 2 weeks since Conn. school massacre

John Christoffersen · December 28, 2012 6:22 pm

A school bus rolls towards a memorial for victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. Classes resume Tuesday for Newtown schools except those at Sandy Hook. Buses ferrying students to schools were festooned with large green and white ribbons on the front grills, the colors of Sandy Hook. At Newtown High School, students in sweatshirts and jackets, many wearing headphones, betrayed mixed emotions. Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Friday and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

New school to re-create the old for Newtown pupils

John Christoffersen · December 19, 2012 11:16 pm

A mourner weeps while listening to President Barack Obama speak on a loudspeaker while sitting outside a memorial at Newtown High School for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Conn. gunman had hundreds of rounds of ammunition

John Christoffersen, Matt Apuzzo · December 17, 2012 6:09 am

In this photo provided by the Newtown Bee, a police officer leads two women and a child from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Newtown Bee, Shannon Hicks) MANDATORY CREDIT: NEWTOWN BEE, SHANNON HICKS

Gunman kills 26 at Conn. school, commits suicide

John Christoffersen · December 15, 2012 6:47 am

Elizabeth Bogdanoff, left, kisses her daughter Julia, 13, both of Newtown, Conn., during a prayer service at St John's Episcopal Church in Newtown, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012. The massacre of 26 children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary school elicited horror and soul-searching around the world even as it raised more basic questions about why the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, would have been driven to such a crime and how he chose his victims. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Conn. town mourns as police look for answers

John Christoffersen, Matt Apuzzo · December 15, 2012 5:00 am

Romney’s ’47 percent’ chosen as year’s best quote

John Christoffersen · December 9, 2012 4:21 pm

Damage from storm at $360M so far in Connecticut

John Christoffersen · November 15, 2012 9:42 pm

Ex-Peace Corps worker gets 15 years for sex abuse

John Christoffersen · October 10, 2012 10:49 pm

2 terrorism suspects plead not guilty in Conn.

John Christoffersen · October 6, 2012 7:32 pm

2 terror suspects extradited to Conn.

John Christoffersen · October 6, 2012 1:22 am

Police seek computer used by teen shot dead by dad

John Christoffersen · October 4, 2012 8:25 pm