My condolenses go out to this family. One would also have to ask why there was 17 people living in this house? These are two family homes that are usualy 2 bedroom apartments sometimes they are used as three bedroom by turning the living room into a bedroom. I also have to wonder how two other adults got out and left those kids there. I can imagine the father was overcome by smoke or the fire trying to save them all. This is a tragedy that should not have happened on too many levels. Were there any public assistance agencies involved with either apartment and how did the fact that so many people live there get by them? Many questions need to be answered here.

So do we have any non union non public dole people running for the school board? Channel 10 ran a story that the average state worker earns over 86K per year plus more than 35K in benefits which is more than their private sector counterparts make. You wonder why we are the most taxed state in the country? Get rid of the teachers unions and watch our kids learn....

There was some question last night if Justin Mason would do the right thing and write the story as it should be written, truthfully. I think he did what he said he was going to do, nice job by the Gazette. I hope this is a turning point in the type of stories that we see written about the SPD, these guys and gals are really good cops and have an extremely tough job to do and they need the support of the city they are protecting not disdain.

We have heard so much about a washed up mediocre basketball player coming out and saying he is Gay, the President even called him and spoke of his courage. Where was Obama when one of our great Heroes was killed, Chris Kyle? We hear that Obama says God Bless you to Planned Parenthood whose organization murders thousands of babies every day. Where is Obama on Kermit Gosnell who is the largest Serial Killer in U.S. history that has murdered hundreds of partial birth aborted babies born alive. What is truth janesjoy, your truth that we should ban rifles that "look" like military weapons because the might be used to kill a kid, while you support the "PC" word for infanticide "pro choice". Tell me please how snipping the neck of dozens of living babies does not matter and a kid with mental problems taking a gun to school does?

Good info justapto, thanks.

And I get criticized for supporting the police why?

Joanne Clough, Kermit Gosnell is just the tip of the iceberg. In Washington DC you can abort into the 9th month. Liveaction.org has opened multiple stings and has Doctors and nurses on camera admitting to pulling out live babies in pieces and letting them die on the tables and also putting living breathing babies in poison solutions to die. If people realized the truth in the abortion industry there would be riots in the streets. Google partial birth abortion images and see what we are doing to babies. For more info you can go to www.liveaction.org/inhuman

Lets ban guns and give a 15 year old who does by law, not have the mental faculties to agree to sex in the first place a pill that will abort a baby and lets make it so the parents wont know. What could possibly go wrong?

Paul Donahue you are talking about two different things. What I find ironic is that the majority of people that want the gun bans also support abortion, the ironic part is that people are trying to ban a gun because a crazy person might get one and shoot some kids that are five years older than the thousands that were partial birth aborted last year. Did you know that in Washington DC you can abort a baby at nine months old? Where have our priorities and humanity gone, not to mention common sense. Listen to and read some of the transcripts of the abortion doctors and nurses telling of cutting spinal cords of live babies or putting them in deadly fluids while they are still breathing. When our government advocates those horrors, I would say we need more guns.

newsworthy I dislike the elitist attitude. There are way too many unanswered question about Obama. When Congress refused to open the doors for his undocumented democrats he did it with executive privilege, that is the same thing Hugo Chaves did. Obama has been given a pass on every rotten thing he has done by the media. Benghazi is worse than Watergate and the media brushes it under the table. I have never in my long years ever heard of a President who refuses to let the survivors of Benghazi testify before Congress and that includes Monica Lewinski's boyfriends wife Hillary. Also I have no problem giving you an email to contact me and we can talk, heck, I'll meet you for lunch and or a couple beers.