Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Maryland petition to repeal gun control law fails; NRA lawsuit looms

2013-06-01 21:35:00

Maryland's new gun control law will not head to voters now that organizers of a petition drive to halt the law failed to turn in any signatures before Friday night's deadline. "This means there were no successful petitions this year," Stephen Ackerman...

Calvert County student suspended for bringing toy gun on school bus

2013-06-01 13:48:00

A Calvert County elementary school student was suspended last week for bringing a toy gun onto a school bus to show a friend, according to a lawyer representing his family. At a two-hour meeting Friday between officials, the boy, his parents and the...

Should disturbing news affect our parenting choices?

2013-05-17 10:00:00

The world recently learned of the astounding story�of the three women who were found alive in a house in Cleveland after being kidnapped on the streets about 10 years ago. Two of the women were teenagers when they disappeared. � I’ve never been...

A 'Scary Mommy' sort of Mother's Day

2013-05-10 07:58:00

When Jill Smokler — more widely known as Scary Mommy — starts talking about motherhood, you'll hear a lot about sleepless nights, green snot and having kids walk into the master bedroom at the most inopportune times. Does she think her...

Autism fundraiser in Towson honors Newtown shooting victim

2013-05-22 08:55:00

As the world watched the tragedy unfold late last year in Newtown, Conn., Bob and Michele Gay, Maryland natives, lived through what Michele would later refer to as called a "long, difficult, numb sort of day." Their 7-year-old daughter, Josephine "Joey"...

Boston coverage by CNN, King and Fox lead us into more confusion

2013-04-18 04:14:00

Just when it was starting to look like cable news might have actually learned something from its rush-to-judgment sins in covering the Newtown massacre, John King, CNN and Fox News showed Wednesday how shaky and journalistically confused even the genre'...

Peter Schmuck: An act of kindness from Loyola to Newtown lacrosse

2013-04-13 16:34:00

In a community ravaged by indescribable tragedy, every individual act of kindness, every unexpected moment of joy takes on a special significance that only those who are living with it can truly understand. So, when Loyola freshman Jason Crane organized...

Notebook: Loyola to host Newtown youth players before Denver game

2013-04-09 21:22:00

The Loyola men's lacrosse program will host nearly 50 players and family members from Newtown (Conn.) Youth Lacrosse on Saturday when the No. 8 Greyhounds host No. 1 Denver in their regular-season home finale at 1 p.m. at Ridley Athletic Complex. On...

Bitter tears for Easter

2013-03-31 03:00:00

Jonylah Watkins died on a Tuesday. She was with her father, who was sitting in a minivan in Chicago on the night of March 11 when someone opened fire. Doctors worked 17 hours trying to repair what a bullet had done to her body, but to no avail. She died...

Teachers packing heat

2013-04-03 09:38:00

It is easy to dismiss the report released Tuesday by the National Rifle Association-financed school safety task force as nothing but an effort to change the topic from the broader issue of gun violence or especially gun control (even the watered-down...

Md. gun bill gets stronger

2013-04-01 10:55:00

Despite the national horror at the massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December, the effort in Congress to enact any meaningful legislation to address gun violence appears increasingly at risk. The first casualty of...

News and social media run amok

2012-12-21 00:00:00

In the Newtown massacre, as in all such tragic events in a free and open society, both the news and social media went all-out to provide the fullest coverage of what happened and why. The latter is not yet fully known. In too many instances, though, the...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) speaks during an event marking the six month anniversary of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting at the U.S. Capitol June 13, 2013 in Washington, DC.

2013-06-13 22:53:47

Mark Edwards and Mary Heiss attended Joey's Purple Ball. Of the more than 200 people gathered at Calvert Hall College High School for Joey's Purple Ball, there wasn't a single guest who wished there wasn't a reason to be there. But, there also wasn't a single guest who would have missed it.

2013-06-08 00:00:00

Jonathan Reich, 22, of Flushing, N.Y., was charged with making threatening phone calls to a state official involved in the investigation of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and families affected by the tragedy.

2013-05-20 00:00:00