BARTLESVILLE, Oklahoma - Hours before a gunman opened fire at a Connecticut elementary school, police in Oklahoma arrested a teenager for allegedly plotting to attack his high school and trying to recruit classmates to help him. Police arrested 18-year-old Sammie Eaglebear Chavez on Friday. A student told authorities that Chavez had tried to "recruit other students to assist him with carrying out a plan to lure students into the school auditorium where he planned to begin shooting them after chaining the doors shut," police said in the affidavit. AP
WASHINGTON - American sports stars shaken by the shooting deaths in Connecticut are paying tribute to the victims of the tragedy. National Football League games will hold a moment of silence to remember the victims, with the New York Giants and New York Jets planning to wear an adhesive strip on their helmets marked "SHES," the acronym of Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School. AFP