A Colo. Community Looks for Answers After Deadly Attack

School officials, police, and local leaders in Jefferson County, Colo., worked round the clock last week trying to pick up the emotional pieces of a community torn apart by two students with firearms and an arsenal of explosives.

In the deadliest school shooting in the nation's history, the two seniors at Columbine High School in suburban Denver killed 12 of their fellow students and one teacher April 20 before taking their own lives. More than 20 others were wounded, many of them seriously.

"We are still a little shell-shocked," Jane Goff, the president of the Jefferson County Education Association, which represents 3,600 teachers, said late last week. "We are angry this thing happened. Everybody wants to know...

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