Sandy Hook

A company affiliated with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones asked a federal judge on Monday to disqualify a bid by the satirical news outlet The Onion to buy Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, alleging fraud and collusion. The company, First United American Companies, which is affiliated with a Jones website that sells dietary supplements, was the only other bidder at…

This has been a long and difficult journey for the families who sued Alex Jones, including Robbie Parker. And while he calls Thursday’s auction result a victory, he’s aware the fight with Alex Jones is likely far from over.

The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax.

This has been a long and difficult journey for the families who sued Alex Jones, including Robbie Parker. And while he calls Thursday’s auction result a victory, he’s aware the fight with Alex Jones is likely far from over. “I’m excited. This is, this is a really big day for us,” Parker said. Parker’s six-year-old daughter Emilie was murdered...

The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax, the families announced Thursday.

Families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims say the satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ‘ Infowars media platform and its assets will be sold off piece by piece in auctions this fall to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, under an order expected to be approved by a federal judge. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston…

“I should have been canceled, I would have deserved it. I still do,” former MMA star Ronda Rousey wrote in an apology late Thursday.

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 Lewis and Neil Heslin, whose…

A U.S. bankruptcy court trustee is planning to shut down conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars media platform and liquidate its assets.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ′ personal assets but dismissed his company’s separate bankruptcy case, leaving the future of his Infowars media platform uncertain as he owes $1.5 billion for his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones appears on the brink of losing the Infowars media platform that he turned into a multimillion-dollar moneymaker over the past 25 years, as a bankruptcy judge is set to rule on whether to liquidate his assets to help pay the $1.5 billion he owes for his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting…

Saturday would have been Catherine Hubbard’s 18th birthday.

There is a vibrant birthday celebration on what would have been the 18th birthday of Catherine Violet Hubbard. After she died at age six in the Sandy Hook school shooting, her family created Catherine’s Butterfly Party to celebrate her life. At the festival Saturday, a sea of purple and butterfly motifs everywhere represent everything that Catherine loved. “When she...

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is seeking court permission to convert his personal bankruptcy reorganization to a liquidation, which would lead to a sell-off of a large portion of his assets to help pay some of the $1.5 billion he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Jones and his media company, Free Speech Systems, both filed…

Relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are asking a bankruptcy judge to liquidate conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ media company, including Infowars, instead of allowing him to reorganize his business.

A Connecticut court on Thursday overturned a six-month suspension given to a lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for improperly giving Jones’ Texas attorneys confidential documents, including the medical records of relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The state Appellate Court ruled that a judge incorrectly found that attorney Norman Pattis violated certain professional conduct rules…

It is an uplifting moment for the family of a young Sandy Hook school shooting victim, as Chase Kowalski’s older sister steps into a new role to keep her brother’s legacy alive. Rebecca Kowalski announced Thursday that her oldest daughter, Brittany, will be the new executive director of the Chase Michael Anthony Kowalski Memorial Foundation, created to honor the...

The organization created to honor Chase Kowalski, a young boy killed in the Sandy Hook shooting, announced the appointment of a new president today: Brittany Kowalski, Chase’s sister. 

Monsignor Robert Weiss, who helped and comforted his community during Newtown’s darkest days, celebrated his final mass on Wednesday.