Sunday, March 10, 2013

Biden to attend gun violence conference in Conn.

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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden and the parents of a student killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School are scheduled to take part Thursday in a gun violence conference at the Connecticut university that Adam Lanza briefly attended a few years before his deadly rampage.

Government officials, gun control advocates and members of law enforcement will also attend the conference at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, where Lanza took classes as a teenager, three years before his deadly assault killed 26 people inside the Newtown school less than 15 miles away.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who organized the conference with two other members of the state's congressional delegation, said the proximity to Newtown was of "symbolic significance," although the Western Connecticut wasn't chosen because...

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