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Japanese protesters raise signs Sunday at a seaside park on Okinawa to oppose U.S. plans to deploy 12 MV-22 Osprey aircraft on the island. Safety concerns boiled over after Osprey crashes in Morocco and Florida earlier this year. (Associated Press)
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This Sept. 6 2012, photo provided by the DFW Airport Department of Public Safety shows Christopher Shell. When flying home to Texas to celebrate his 29th birthday on Thursday, Shell became became the unwitting victim of a midair explosives hoax that forced the plane's return to Philadelphia. (AP Photo/DFW Airport Department of Public Safety)
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In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, damaged cars are seen in Luozehe town, Yiliang County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. A series of earthquakes collapsed houses and triggered landslides in a remote mountainous part of southwestern China on Friday, killing dozens of people with the toll expected to rise. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhou Hongpeng)
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Alexander Galimov was one of 44 who died in the plane crash carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team from Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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EYA is building 60 condominium homes at the Oronoco in Alexandria. The homes have approximately 1,549 to 3,511 finished square feet, with base prices from $945,000 to $3,995,000.
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Each custom-designed town home at Wormley Row on Prospect Street Northwest has four levels with 4,900 to 5,600 finished square feet. The homes are base-priced from $3,445,000 to $4,995,000.
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"He's seen as anti-coal. Some people feel as if the mines aren't operating as fully as they could be." - Charlene Marshall, the former mayor of Morgantown, W.Va., and now a state legislator and delegate at the convention. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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This photo posted to an Instagram account belonging to a person identified as Jose Pablo Pineda, an eyewitness at the scene, shows damage at an office building in San Jose, Costa Rica, after a magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Jose Pablo Pineda via Instagram)
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Fireworks lie in the foreground and policemen arrive at the scene after a massive blaze swept through the Om Siva Shakti fireworks factory in Sivakasi, about 650 kilometers (400 miles) southwest of Chennai, India, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. Dozens of workers were killed and dozens were injured in the fire, the cause of which was not immediately known. (AP Photo)
