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Brunswick High School students console each other June 4, 2012, at a crash site near Brunswick, Ohio. An 18-year-old boy died earlier that day, one day after he was thrown from a car in a crash just hours before his high school graduation. Three other teens were also killed. (Associated Press)

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Mason Hansen has been hauling away sand on his farm since the Missouri River flooded last year, and still has a long way to go before he can grow corn and soybeans again. "People don't have any idea how big of a mess this is," he said. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Country singer Willie Nelson performs Oct. 17, 2011, during "Fire Relief, The Concert For Central Texas" at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas. (Associated Press)

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Rescue workers search for bodies at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday, June 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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Onlookers stand on the tail wing of a crashed passenger plane in a neighborhood just north of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, on Sunday, June 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

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A helmet-cam video posted on YouTube shows a driver yelling out of his truck's passenger-side window at a cyclist as he rides down Rhode Island Avenue Northeast before the cyclist tumbles to the road.

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The USS Yorktown lists heavily to port after being struck by Japanese bombers and torpedo planes in the Battle of Midway on June 6, 1942, during World War II. A destroyer stands by at right to assist as a salvage crew on the flight deck tries to right the stricken aircraft carrier. A few hours later, the Yorktown was hit with Japanese torpedoes and sank. (Associated Press/U.S. Navy)

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Flying dangerously close, a U.S. Navy photographer got this spectacular aerial view of a heavy Japanese cruiser of the Mogima class, demolished by Navy bombs, in the battle off Midway on June 21, 1942. Armor plate, steel decks and superstructure are a tumbled mass. The Navy damaged or sank 17 enemy vessels in the historic engagement. (Associated Press)

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Two U.S. dive bombers fly over a burning Japanese ship during the battle of Midway on June 7, 1942. Under the incessant pounding of American fliers, 20 ships of the enemy armada of 80 were sunk or damaged and the others put to flight. (Associated Press)

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Black smoke rises from a burning U.S oil tank, set afire during a Japanese air raid on Midway Atoll on June 4, 1942. (Associated Press)

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Smoke rises from the USS Yorktown after a Japanese bomber hit the aircraft carrier in the Battle of Midway near the Midway Islands in June 1942 during World War II. Bursts from anti-aircraft fire fill the air. (Associated Press/U.S. Navy)

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Two U.S. dive bombers fly over a burning Japanese ship on June 7, 1942, during the battle of Midway. Under the incessant pounding of American fliers, 20 ships of the enemy armada of 80 were sunk or damaged and the others put to flight. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this March 12, 2011 photo, Emergency personnel investigate the scene of a bus crash on Interstate-95 in the Bronx borough of New York. Twenty-six bus operations that operated between New York and Florida have been closed for safety violations. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)