NEWTOWN, Conn. | Investigators triedto figure out Saturday what led a brightbut painfully awkward 20-year-old to

slaughter 26 children and adults at an el-ementary school.

Chief Medical Examiner H. WayneCarver said all of Adam Lanza’s victimsat Sandy Hook Elementary were shotwith a rifle, at least some of them upclose, and all of them were apparentlyshot more than once. All six adultskilled at the school were women. Of the20 children, eight were boys and 12were girls. All the children were 6 or 7

years old. Asked how many bullets were fired,

Carver said, “I’m lucky if I can tell youhow many I found.”

Lanza also took his own life at theschool. Before the school massacre, hekilled his mother at the home theyshared.

Police shed no light on what triggered

SCHOOL SHOOTING | Police release Newtown victims’ names

A NATION ASKS WHY

JASON DECROW | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Among the hundreds mourning the Sandy Hook Schoolshooting victims Saturday were members of a local boyshockey team and two of the boys’ mothers.

Killer left no note ormanifesto, but police say theyare collecting informationthat will explain his motive.

By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN and MATT APUZZO

The Associated Press

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Volunteer Luis Garcia (center), a student at Wyandotte High School, bagged potatoes during a mobile food pantry while Vianey Guerrero(right), a junior, carried food to a car. Students who volunteer at the pantry are given groceries to take home.

Omayra Patterson walks through aparking lot at Wyandotte HighSchool looking for volunteers.

School’s been out for about 30 minutes,and a group of high school students alreadyhas formed an assembly line along card-board boxes, stacks and crates of food. Wait-ing cars already snake around the block.

“Can I get some more helpers down here,please?” hollers Patterson, a migrant ad-vocate for the Kansas City, Kan., SchoolDistrict. She’s trying to corral more teensfor designated spots along the food line.

It’s the last Tuesday of November, andseemingly the coldest day so far this season.A few adults and a dozen or so students,bundled in coats and hats and scarves andcomplaining about the cold, are here to dowhat they do every other Tuesday after-

Filling the grocery gapsKC CHALLENGE:CHILDHOODHUNGERHow you can help: For the thirdyear, The Star is working withHarvesters on a virtual food drive.All money raised will go toHarvesters’ BackSnack programfor kids. Go tofeedingkckids.harvesters.org tomake a donation.

You can designate your donationin the honor or memory of afamily member or friend. The Starwill publish the dedications onChristmas Day.

NUTRITION | Harvesters programs help older kids

When teenagers ‘feel the shame,’ they’reless likely to ask for food. A Kansasdistribution effort reaches out to them.

By LAURA BAUER | The Kansas City Star

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11,300 The number of students in Wyandotte County (26.4 percent) who often don’t have enough nutritional food at home.

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Is Kansas about to hit the jackpot?More than 500 people wanted to

know just that on a crisp morning inlate November as they walked into aKansas State Fairgrounds building inHutchinson.

Gov. Sam Brownback greeted themand got to the point: Vast amounts ofoil and natural gas are trapped in arock formation in the state known asthe Mississippi Lime. And energycompanies are beginning to work it.

If the formation gushes as much oiland gas as hoped, Brownback said, itwill help move the U.S. toward energyindependence and boost the Kansaseconomy with billions in investmentand income and thousands of good-paying jobs.

“This is a great day,” Kansas Com-merce Secretary Pat George told theconference, organized to talk abouthow small businesses could prosperfrom the possible boom.

Mark Richardson, a retired Kansasfarmer at the conference, said “thereare very few people I know who

Kansascould seeoil boom Energy companies expect bigthings from Mississippi Limeformation, which would giveU.S., state economy a bump.

By STEVE EVERLYThe Kansas City Star

THE MISSISSIPPI LIME FORMATIONStretching across Kansas and northern Oklahoma, this limestone formation of rock is part of a surge of new oil drilling activity.

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