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Peter Lanza, who until now had avoided the news media, talks at length about the emotions he feels — “Peter declared that he wished Adam had never been born,” The New Yorker says — and the life his son led.

As a steady snow blanketed Newtown, Saturday morning, the bells at St. Rose of Lima church tolled 26 times.

Investigators say they haven’t determined why Adam Lanza killed 26 students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last December.

With the Senate soon to vote on initiatives including expanded background checks of gun purchasers and increased penalties for gun trafficking, a scan through data from polls about gun laws underscores how attitudes for the most part seem to be close to pre-Newtown levels.

In the months following the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., polls showed greater support for stricter gun control laws.

Two months after the massacre at an elementary school in Connecticut, letters, cards and gifts continue to arrive in Newtown each day, but the town is not sure what to do with it all.

Investigators trying to piece together a motive in December’s killings in Newtown, Conn., believe that 20-year-old shooter Adam Lanza may have been inspired by a similar 2011 massacre in Norway.

Mayor Merrill Sanford says he’s not likely to call a community meeting to talk about gun control.