(CNN) — For the first time since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Christine Wilford plans do something remarkable on Thursday that once was routine: drop her child off at school. (more…)
By Ilana Gold, NBC Connecticut. A Connecticut man was facing several charges after police said he barged into a church naked and exposed himself to parishioners and a third-grade class Wednesday afternoon. (more…)
The Obama administration acted lawfully in refusing to disclose information about its targeted killings of terrorism suspects, including the 2011 drone strikes that killed three U.S. (more…)
WASHINGTON – A federal judge in Manhattan refused on Wednesday to require the Justice Department to disclose a memorandum providing the legal justification for the targeted killing of a United States citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, who died in a drone strike (more…)
A commission tapped by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to assess education in New York state delivered a wish list on Wednesday that included widely praised items such as prekindergarten for all students, better teacher preparation and longer school days and years. (more…)
Philadelphia had just 25 civilian fire deaths in 2012 – the lowest number in recorded history, fire officials said. That number was down from 32 in the previous year and continued a general downward trend since 2006. (more…)
HONOLULU – President Obama late Wednesday signed the fiscal crisis bill passed by Congress using an autopen while on vacation with his family in Hawaii. (more…)
Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose globe-trotting tour as secretary of state was abruptly halted last month by a series of health problems, was discharged from a New York hospital on Wednesday evening after several days of treatment for a blood clot in a vein in (more…)
Briefly lost in the tumult surrounding the fiscal cliff battle is the potential nomination of Chuck Hagel as defense secretary. With liberal gay activists, key Republican senators and a bevy of pro-Israel groups vocally opposed to the former Nebraska senator, it is (more…)
