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News Articles: sandy hook

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones stands outside the federal courthouse after a June bankruptcy hearing in Houston.

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  • National

A bidding war is brewing for Alex Jones’ media empire

Infowars is on the auction block, and would-be-buyers have opposite agendas.

October 09, 2024
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By:
  • Tovia Smith
Ella Seaver shares her thoughts on high school graduation with other survivors of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting before a rally against gun violence on Friday, June 7, 2024, in Newtown, Conn.

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  • National

Sandy Hook survivors to graduate with mixed emotions without 20 of their classmates

About 60 of the 330 kids graduating from Newtown High School will also be carrying the emotional burden of knowing that many of their former classmates won't get to walk across the stage with them.

June 12, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
InfoWars founder Alex Jones speaks to the media outside Waterbury Superior Court during his trial on Sept. 21, 2022 in Waterbury, Conn.

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  • Law

Alex Jones offers Sandy Hook victims' families $55 million to settle legal claims

Meanwhile, the families submitted a competing plan focused on liquidating the conspiracy theorist's Infowars business.

December 16, 2023
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
GPB News NPR

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  • National

Connecticut enacts its most sweeping gun control law since the Sandy Hook shooting

The new law, signed by Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont in June, bans the open carrying of firearms and prohibits the sale of more than three handguns within 30 days to any one person, with some exceptions.

October 01, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in court to testify during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn., on Sept. 22, 2022.

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  • Law

Alex Jones' expenses topped $93,000 in July. Sandy Hook families have yet to be paid

Alex Jones' personal spending is frustrating families who are trying to collect on the $1.5 billion in judgments against him for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting a hoax.

September 14, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
GPB News NPR

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  • National

Melissa Joan Hart says she helped kindergarteners escape the Nashville shooting

Hart, known for her starring role on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, said her children attend school near Nashville's Covenant School.

March 30, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Jennifer Hensel waits for the school bus with her 8-year-old daughter, Imogen, and her 6-year-old son, Owen, on the first day of school this year. They share hugs, kisses, excitement and still some anxiety 10 years after the shooting.

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  • National

10 years after Sandy Hook, a family finds bits of joy amid shards of pain

Families who had their lives shattered on Dec. 14, 2012, are still straining under the weight of their losses — and still pushing for the changes they had hoped would have already happened by now.

December 14, 2022
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By:
  • Tovia Smith
Plaintiff's attorney Chris Mattei (left) questions Alex Jones on Thursday at Jones' trial to determine defamation damages in Waterbury, Conn.

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  • National

Alex Jones testifies over damages he must pay families for Sandy Hook hoax claims

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones took the stand at his defamation trial as he tries to limit the damages he must pay for promoting the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.

September 22, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Alex Jones talks to reporters during a break in his trial in Austin, Texas, on July 26.

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  • National

At Alex Jones trial, an FBI agent breaks down as he describes the scene at Sandy Hook

An FBI agent struggled to control his emotions as he described seeing bodies inside Sandy Hook elementary school — a scene that the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones later claimed was staged by actors.

September 13, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Infowars founder Alex Jones listens to a supporter at the Texas State Capital building in April 2020 in Austin, Texas.

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  • Law

A jury will decide if Alex Jones has to pay punitive damages to Sandy Hook parents

Jones is being sued for defamation by the parents of a first grader killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 for saying the school shooting was a hoax on his radio show.

August 05, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Alex Jones arrives at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin on Tuesday.

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  • National

Alex Jones concedes that the Sandy Hook attack was '100% real'

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones testified that he now understands it was irresponsible of him to declare the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre a hoax.

August 03, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Neil Heslin, father of 6-year-old Sandy Hook shooting victim Jesse Lewis, becomes emotional while testifying in the trial of Alex Jones on Tuesday in Austin, Texas.

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  • National

The father of a Sandy Hook victim says Alex Jones has made his life a 'living hell'

Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012, testified that he has endured online abuse, anonymous phone calls and harassment on the street.

August 02, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 5, 2018. A Texas judge on Wednesday pushed back a trial over how much Jones should pay the families of Sandy Hook victims.

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  • National

Alex Jones' trial to determine payments to Sandy Hook families is delayed

A Texas judge pushed back the first jury trial over how much the conspiracy theorist should pay the families of Sandy Hook victims. Jones' Infowars company sought bankruptcy protection this week.

April 20, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Photos of Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre victims sits at a small memorial near the school on Jan. 14, 2013 in Newtown, Conn.

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  • Author Interviews

Sandy Hook ushered in new era of conspiracy and lies, author finds

Following the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school, journalist Elizabeth Williamson says, conspiracy theorists tormented the victims' families by accusing them of being actors.

March 09, 2022
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By:
  • Dave Davies
Firearms training unit Detective Barbara Mattson, of the Connecticut State Police, holds up a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle — the same make and model of the gun used in the Sandy Hook School shooting.

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  • Law

Families of Sandy Hook victims reach $73 million settlement with Remington

The elementary school shooting left 20 students and six adults dead. The settlement is thought to be first of its kind, awarding major damages against a U.S. gun manufacturer based on a mass shooting.

February 15, 2022
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  • Frankie Graziano and
  • Laurel Wamsley
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