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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, right, talks with officials at a staging area following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northeast of New York City, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. An official with knowledge of Friday's shooting said 27 people were dead, including 18 children. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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A mother runs with her children as police above canvass homes in the area following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northeast of New York City, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. An official with knowledge of Friday's shooting said 27 people were dead, including 18 children. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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Lucious Smith, 53, of Dade City, Fla., has been charged in the fatal stabbing of 25-year-old health care worker Steffanie Ross following her visit to his home on Monday, Dec. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Pasco County Sheriff's Office)

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Syrian men use sledgehammers to break the concrete of a residential building in Maaret Misreen, near Idlib, Syria, on Dec. 12, 2012, while searching for belongings under the rubble. The building was destroyed in a government airstrike. (Associated Press)

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A kitchen damaged by heavy clashes between Free Syrian Army fighters and government forces in Aleppo, Syria, is seen here on Dec. 10, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Aida cries as she recovers from severe injuries March 10, 2012, after the Syrian Army shelled her house in Idlib, Syria. Her husband and two of her children were killed. (Associated Press)

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens gather Dec. 13, 2012, in front of a damaged building destroyed by a car bomb in Qatana, 25 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Damascus, Syria. (Associated Press/SANA)

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At the back of the ground level in the Southwick model are the center-island kitchen, which is open to the family room and breakfast area.

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Basheer & Edgemoore is building 28 town homes at Boucher Place in the Eastport neighborhood of Annapolis. The Southwick model has 2,380 finished square feet and is priced from $427,900.

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South Korean protesters and former North Korean defectors display mock coffins symbolizing victims killed during the era of North Korea's late Kim Jong Il during a rally in Seoul on Dec. 13, 2012, denouncing North Korea's rocket launch. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Peck Canyon near Nogales, Ariz., is seen here on June 7, 2011. The ATF is under fire over a Phoenix-based gun-trafficking investigation called "Fast and Furious," in which agents allowed hundreds of guns into the hands of straw purchasers in hopes of making a bigger case. Two of those weapons were found in December 2010 at the fatal shooting of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A lone U.S. Border Patrol vehicle sits Dec. 16, 2010, in the rugged desert in Rio Rico, Ariz., about 10 miles north of Mexico, as teams of border officers search for the lone outstanding suspect in the fatal shooting of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. (Associated Press)

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Syrian men use sledgehammers to break the concrete and search for belongings under the rubble of a residential building in Maaret Misreen, near Idlib, Syria, that was destroyed in a government airstrike on Dec. 12, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Syrian men use sledgehammers to break the concrete of a residential building in Maaret Misreen, near Idlib, Syria, on Dec. 12, 2012, while searching for belongings under the rubble. The building was destroyed in a government airstrike. (Associated Press)