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than a decade earlier in prison, Ottis Toole, was responsible.
• One year ago: President Barack Obama visited Newtown, Conn., the scene of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre; after meeting privately with victims' families, the president told an evening vigil he would use "whatever power" he had to prevent future shootings. Two Topeka, Kan., police officers, Cpl. David Gogian and Officer Jeff Atherly, were shot to death in a grocery parking lot; the suspected gunman, David Tiscareno, was later killed after an armed standoff. Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party returned to power in a landslide election victory after three years in opposition.
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• Today's Birthdays: Civil rights attorney Morris Dees is 77. Actress Joyce Bulifant is 76. Actress Liv Ullmann is 75. CBS news correspondent Lesley Stahl is 72. TV producer Steven Bochco is 70. Former Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons is 69. Pop musician Tony Hicks (The Hollies) is 68. Pop singer Benny Andersson (ABBA) is 67. Actor Ben Cross is 66. Rock singer-musician Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) is 64. Rock musician Bill Bateman (The Blasters) is 62. Actor Xander Berkeley is 58. Actress Alison LaPlaca is 54. Actor Sam Robards is 52. Actor Jon Tenney is 52. Actor Benjamin Bratt is 50. Country singer-songwriter Jeff Carson is 50. Actor-comedian JB Smoove is 48. Actor Daniel Cosgrove is 43. Rhythm-and-blues singer Michael McCary is 42. Actor Jonathan Scarfe is 38. Actress Krysten Ritter is 32. Country musician Chris Scruggs is 31. Actress Amanda Setton is 28. Actress Hallee Hirsh is 26. Actress Anna Popplewell is 25.
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• Thought for Today: "That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions." - George Santayana (1863-1952).
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