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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)

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Law enforcement personnel work the scene of a shooting at the Clackamas Town Center in Portland, Ore. Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. A gunman is dead after opening fire in the Portland, Ore., area shopping mall Tuesday, killing two people and wounding another, sheriff's deputies said. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Bruce Ely)

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A family leaves the scene of a multiple shooting at Clackamas Town Center Mall in Clackamas, Ore., Tuesday Dec. 11, 2012. A gunman is dead after opening fire in the Portland, Ore., area shopping mall Tuesday, killing two people and wounding another, sheriff's deputies said. (AP Photo/Greg Wahl-Stephens)

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DHS and its Customs and Border Protection agency have deployed drones to assist local law enforcement and other federal agencies on several occasions.

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** FILE ** A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying an X-37B experimental robotic space plane lifts off from Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Air Force officials said the unmanned space plane, which resembles a miniature space shuttle, provides a way to test technologies in space. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

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** FILE ** This photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board shows a post-accident view of the vehicles from a wrong-way collision in Fountain, Colo., on Sept. 24, 2011. Hundreds of people are killed each a year when drivers turn the wrong way into the face of oncoming traffic on high-speed highways, and a majority of the crashes involves drivers with blood alcohol levels more than twice the legal limit, a federal accident researcher said. (Associated Press/National Transportation Safety Board)