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Connecticut State Police have released an exhaustive report on last year's Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, offering some new details on the massacre that left 20 first-graders and six educators dead.

Blue-collar workers, hit hard by automation and factory offshoring, have been struggling to find high-paying jobs.

Officers were called to the Mission Valley Mall by one of the victims, who told 911 she was shot near the mall but didn't know exactly where she was.

Being a news consumer means you're constantly on the receiving end of bad news. War, unemployment, crime, political dysfunction -- it can be enough to make you think we humans aren't doing anything right. But good news: We are. As the year draws to an end, here's a look at a few areas of real progress in the U.S. and around the world.

A mentally ill man acquitted in a retrial this month of fatally stabbing a 12-year-old Escondido girl in her bed nearly 16 years ago will be on parole for eight months, instead of the initially ordered period of less than two weeks.

There's no such thing as too much practice when it comes to brain surgery.

After Angelina Jolie announced she has a genetic variant that raises her risk of breast cancer, many women asked their doctors for the test. Insurers will pay for tests only if there's a clear indication that it would help shape medical care. That's often not the case.

The day when a simple blood test or saliva sample can identify your risk for medical conditions ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's disease seems tantalizingly close.

The San Diego City Council will consider a plan to add 595 miles of bicycle paths to double the size of the citywide bike network.

Researchers say they are achieving success in curing the genetic defect that causes some children to be born without immune defenses, a rare condition made famous in the 1970s by a Texas boy who lived most of his short life in a sterile "bubble."