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Harry Connick Jr. writes song for Newtown victim

This May 2, 2013 file photo released by Fox shows singer Harry Connick Jr. performing onstage at FOX's American Idol Season 12 Top 4 To 3 Live Elimination Show in Los Angeles. Connick Jr. has written a song in honor of a 6-year-old girl killed in the Newtown school shooting. Connick this week released the song “Love Wins” dedicated to Ana Grace Marquez-Greene. He says proceeds will go to the Ana Grace Fund set up to help the girl's family. Connick played with the girl's jazz saxophonist father, Jimmy Greene, and sang at the funeral for Ana, one of 20 first-graders and six adults killed in December at Sandy Hook Elementary School. (AP Photo/Fox, Frank Micelotta)

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Harry Connick Jr. has written a song in honor of a 6-year-old girl killed in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.

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Santa Monica gunman was mentally evaluated

Akiva Sherman, right, 62,  repairs the wall  next to a makeshift memorial Sunday, June 9, 2013, where a victim's vehicle crashed during the shootings at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, Calif. The shootings on Friday left six people dead, including the gunman.   (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — As authorities pressed their investigation into why Santa Monica gunman John Zawahri killed five people in a rampage last week, new details began to emerge about the violence.

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