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after a 12-hour standoff at a guest cottage. (Bryant is serving a life prison sentence.)
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• Ten years ago: First photos from the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal were shown on CBS' "60 Minutes II." A Spanish judge indicted Amer Azizi (AH'-mer uh-ZEE'-zee), a Moroccan fugitive, on charges of helping to plan the September 11 hijackings (Azizi remains at large). The U.N. Security Council put terrorists, black marketeers and crooked scientists on notice that they faced punishment for trafficking in weapons of mass destruction. Cable giant Comcast Corp. dropped its two-month-old unsolicited bid for The Walt Disney Co.
• Five years ago: Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius won Senate confirmation, 65-31, as health and human services secretary. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania defected from the Republican Party, joining the Democrats. Country singer Vern Gosdin ("Chiseled in Stone") died in Nashville at age 74.
• One year ago: Mohammed Sohel Rana, the fugitive owner of an illegally constructed building in Bangladesh that collapsed and killed at least 1,129 people, was captured by a commando force as he tried to flee into India.
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• Today's Birthdays: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee is 88. Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III is 84. Actor Frank Vincent is 77. Actress-singer Ann-Margret is 73. Actress Marcia Strassman is 66. Actor Paul Guilfoyle is 65. Former "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno is 64. Rock musician Chuck Leavell is 62. Actress Mary McDonnell is 61. Rock singer-musician Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) is 61. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is 54. Rapper Too Short is 48. Actress Simbi Khali is 43. Actress Bridget Moynahan is 43. Actor Chris Young is 43. Rapper Big Gipp is 41. Actor Jorge Garcia is 41. Actress Elisabeth Rohm is 41. Actress Penelope Cruz is 40. Actor Nate Richert is 36. Actress Jessica Alba is 33. Actor Harry Shum Jr. (TV: "Glee") is 32. Actress Jenna Ushkowitz is 28. Actress Aleisha Allen is 23.
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• Thought for Today: "If youth only had a chance or old age any brains." - Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist-educator (1869-1944).
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