Local officials in Newtown, Conn., plan to celebrate the town’s high-school football team after it won the state championship Saturday, a bright moment amid commemorations of the mass shooting that took the lives of 26 people, including 20 children, exactly seven years earlier. Newtown High School’s Nighthawks defeated the Darien Blue Wave by 13-7 in the division for the state’s largest high schools. On the final play of the game, a senior receiver on the Newtown team caught a 36-yard pass and ran into the end zone as time...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 15, 2019 23:03 UTC