By FRAZIER MOORE (NEW YORK, AP) — The scope and senselessness of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting challenged television journalists’ ability to do much more than lend, or impose, their… Read more »

By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN (NEWTOWN, Conn., AP) — A man opened fire inside the Connecticut elementary school where his mother worked Friday, killing 26 people, including 18 children, and forcing students… Read more »

(NEWTOWN, Conn., AP) — Connecticut State Police say they are assisting local police in Newtown in response to reports of a shooting at an elementary school. A dispatcher at the… Read more »

By DON BABWIN (CHICAGO, AP) — With parts of the city in the grip of gang warfare and spiking homicide rates, Chicago aldermen urged state officials to appeal an appellate… Read more »

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and STEVEN DUBOIS (PORTLAND, Ore., AP) — A gunman who opened fire on shoppers at a Portland mall had no connection to the two people he… Read more »

By JEFF KAROUB and JOHN FLESHER (LANSING, Mich., AP) — In a dizzyingly short time span, Republicans have converted Michigan from a seemingly impregnable fortress of organized labor into a… Read more »

By STEVE PEOPLES (HOOKSETT, N.H., AP) — Fear and frustration course through the lunch crowd at Robie’s Country Store and Deli, a popular outpost 500 miles from where Washington is… Read more »

By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — A plunge over the federal “fiscal cliff” may sound like a terrifying risk for many state officials anxiously watching as Washington… Read more »

By AUDREY McAVOY (PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, AP) — As crew members lined the edge of the Navy guided-missile destroyer, the ship’s whistle sounded. It was 7:55 a.m., the exact time… Read more »

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR (WASHINGTON, AP) — It’s health care brinksmanship, with hundreds of billions of dollars and the well-being of millions of people at stake. President Barack Obama’s health care… Read more »