She went to her grave to the strains of “The Sound of Silence.” Teacher Victoria Soto, who used her body to shield her students from a madman’s bullets, was serenaded by Paul Simon before ...

The outside of the Victoria Soto School in Stratford, Connecticut, has a big mosaic mural with tiles designed by the Soto family that depicts the Puerto Rican teacher's favorite animal: flamingos.

Victoria Soto, 27, a first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., ushered her students into a closet, and in so doing placed her body between them and the assailant.

Victoria "Vicki" Soto blared her favorite Michael Buble Christmas album from her car as she drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012. Her uncle discovered the radio playing as loudly ...

Construction on the Victoria Soto memorial playground in Stratford is scheduled to begin Saturday, June 15 at 8:30 a.m.

Every year since, the History department at Soto’s alma mater, Eastern Connecticut State University, has presented the Victoria Leigh Soto Memorial Scholarship to an aspiring teacher.

Here is one measure in response to the Sandy Hook shootings that everyone can agree upon: A town council in Stratford, Conn., is set to vote on a proposal to name a new school after Victoria Soto ...