James F. Tracy, the tenured associate professor of communications at Florida Atlantic University, who taught a class on conspiracies and suggested that the Sandy Hook shooting three years ago was a hoax perpetrated by the Obama administration, was fired on Tuesday.
A professor who has been teaching conspiracy theories for 13 years and spreading false theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting is finally facing termination at Florida Atlantic University.
In a harrowing interview with the New Yorker, the first since his son, Adam, shot and killed 20 students and six teachers in December 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary, Peter Lanza described the horror, guilt, and regret he's felt since the tragedy. "Any variation on what I did and how my relationship was [with Adam] had…
All Gregory Beck wanted to do was honor the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre the best way he knew how: by giving out ammunition to the gun-nuts he knew for 26 days straight. But you people can't tolerate a sense of humor in a school board member, can you?
Following a year-long investigation into the December 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the state’s Department of Emergency Services has released several gigabytes of information gathered by law enforcement officials, including on-scene video footage, photographs, and previously…
A year ago today, a gunman took the lives of 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School, including 20 children. Today, the town of Newtown, Connecticut is holding a day of private remembrance, the most public event being the ringing of church bells across the state to mark the lives taken.
This afternoon, officials in Newtown, Connecticut released the 911 calls from last December's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. The calls, while harrowing and difficult to listen to, show a calm response from town dispatchers as they advised the janitor, teacher, and seven others who called to report the tragedy.
Monday afternoon, the Connecticut State Attorney's office released the full report from the investigation into last December's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. Terrifying as it is detailed, the report covers Adam Lanza's path through the school, his possessions, and his possible motives.
A trio of pro-gun groups has come together to declare December 14, the one-year anniversary of last year's horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, "Guns Save Lives Day." Because when you think about all the people saved by America's many, many handguns and rifles and shotguns, what springs to mind but the day…
This past Saturday, residents of Newtown, Connecticut voted overwhelmingly in favor of accepting a $49.25 million state appropriation that will allow the city to demolish Sandy Hook Elementary, the site of last December's horrific mass shooting, and build a new school on the same grounds.
ThinkProgress has published a series of emails in which Lake Mary Police Chief Steve Bracknell, who oversees cops in George Zimmerman's Florida town, appears to agree with a concerned citizen who worries that Zimmerman is "a Sandy Hook, Aurora waiting to happen."
A New York City woman pleaded guilty to fraud today for using Facebook and phone calls to solicit money for a "funeral fund" for her nephew, who was killed in last year's Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. No such nephew ever existed.
Adam Lanza spent only five minutes at Sandy Hook Elementary School on the morning of December 14—from the moment he "shot his way into the school" to the minute he took his own life. But police found 154 spent casings from his Bushmaster rifle—and over a thousand rounds more at his home, authorities announced today.
For seven years now, Dennis Veilleux has held leadership positions at Colt, a Connecticut-based company whose sole reason for existence is to manufacture weapons designed to kill things. In December, using a gun modeled after Colt's trademarked AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, a man named Adam Lanza stormed Sandy Hook…
Turns out "gun raffle" isn't just a folksy term for Russian roulette. The New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police will give away a gun a day in May, with the proceeds from ticket sales to defray the cost of police cadet training. In North Dakota, a youth hockey league will raffle off 200 guns as a fundraiser…
From their "What Would Django Do?" campaign to their ill-fated (and shooting-filled) Gun Appreciation Day to idiotic NRA commercials, pro-gun activists have been on an impressive roll. But it's been a few days since their last PR disaster – surely they've done something stupid recently, right? Correct. During a…
"This is a simple, logical video," the text on the screen reads. "No aliens, holigrams, rituals or anything like that, just facts." (All sic.) There's some light piano (from Guns 'n Roses' "Estranged") playing in the background. "New information comes up every single days, so by the time you see this video there may…
From every tragedy springs dozens of conspiracy theories, and the Sandy Hook massacre is no different. Of course, those theories usually leak from places like the "United Slaves of Amerika" Facebook page, Twitchy.com commenters and BeforeItsNews.com. Where you don't usually find them — or at least where you hope not…
H. Wayne Carver, the Chief Connecticut State Medical Examiner, just held a press conference to explain the findings of his examination. He determined that the cause of death for all of the victims was by gunshot wound, he classified all of the deaths as homicides. "I believe everybody was hit more than once," he told…
