A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday stopped an effort by the parents of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to begin collecting on some of the $50 million they won in a lawsuit against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over his false claims that the massacre was a hoax. Lawyers for Scarlett […]
A makeshift memorial for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting is seen outside the entrance to Newtown High School, Dec. 15, 2012. About 60 surviving Sandy Hook students will graduate from the high school on Wednesday night. (Dylan Stableford/Yahoo News) There were the seemingly countless vigils and memorials, birthdays and anniversaries. And […]
A makeshift memorial for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting is seen outside the entrance to Newtown High School, Dec. 15, 2012. About 60 surviving Sandy Hook students will graduate from the high school on Wednesday night. (Dylan Stableford/Yahoo News) There were the seemingly countless vigils and memorials, birthdays and anniversaries. And […]
A woman was arrested in Ohio Friday and charged in the fatal shooting of a man who was found with gunshot wounds on Newtown Pike Tuesday afternoon. Shawnika Gill, 48, is charged with murder in the death of Antonio Taylor, 48, who died after being shot on the 500 block of Newtown Pike. The Lexington […]
It was a promise made two decades ago when the neighborhood of Davis Bottom was razed to make way for the Newtown Pike extension. The new neighborhood, now called Davis Park, would get a new park when construction of Newtown Pike was completed, state and city leaders said about 20 years ago. On Tuesday, city, […]
A road construction project that will widen Newtown Pike from two lanes to three lanes between New Circle Road and Interstate 75 will soon get underway. Adding a third lane in each direction will improve traffic flow and safety along the corridor, which carries an estimated 44,000 vehicles a day, according to a news release […]
Police are investigating an incident involving a barricaded person at a residence in Newtown on Christmas Eve. The Newtown Police Department responded to a residence on Boggs Hill Road in the area of Willowbrook and Bentagrass Lanes. According to police, the situation is contained to a single residence. Newtown police said they are on scene […]
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ latest bankruptcy plan would pay Sandy Hook families a minimum total of $55 million over 10 years, a fraction of the $1.5 billion awarded to the relatives in lawsuits against Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown school shooting a hoax. The families, meanwhile, have filed their own proposal seeking to liquidate […]