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Alexander Semin attempted nine shots and got four on goal in his return to Washington with the Hurricanes on Tuesday night. (Associated Press)

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the washington times The District’s Consolidated Forensic Laboratory is a 351,000-square-foot building in Southwest that consolidates the public safety forensic science and public health efforts into a single facility.

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Washington Capitals center Nicklas Backstrom, left, from Sweden, right wing Troy Brouwer (20) and center Mike Ribeiro (9) celebrate Backstrom's goal in the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Carolina Hurricanes left wing Alexander Semin (28) celebrates scoring a goal during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y., Monday, Feb.11, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul J. Bereswill)

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Carolina Hurricanes' Alexander Semin during an NHL hockey game against the Philadelphia Flyers, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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Carolina Hurricanes' Alexander Semin during an NHL hockey game against the Philadelphia Flyers, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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Amarillo emergency personnel assisted a stranded motorist on the I-40 service road Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. A blizzard packing 50 mph wind gusts and more than 11 inches of snow blasted Amarillo and Texas Panhandle Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, making travel nearly impossible. Interstate 40 and many major highways in the Panhandle have been closed. (AP Photo/The Amarillo Globe News,Michael Schumacher)

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** FILE ** In this aerial file photo created on Wednesday, April 21, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, an oil slick is seen as the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns. Nearly three years after the deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico triggered the nation's worst offshore oil spill, a federal judge in New Orleans is set to preside over a high-stakes trial for the raft of litigation spawned by the disaster on Monday Feb. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)