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Officials respond to the scene where a tent blew over after high winds crossed the area, Saturday, April 28, 2012, in St. Louis. The tent was set up next to Kilroy's Sports Bar, where St. Louis Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson said a few hundred people were celebrating after the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 7-3 in a baseball game. Emergency officials said 16 people were taken to hospitals with injuries ranging from minor to very serious. KSDK reported that fire officials said five people were in critical condition and 100 people were treated at the scene. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Emily Rasinski)
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Griffin signs autographs Wednesday for members of the New York City Joint Service Color Guard after he participated in a Play 60 event in Chelsea. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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**FILE** Rescue crews work at the scene of a May 2008 crane collapse on New York's Upper East Side. (Associated Press)
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Mitchell & Best Homebuilders is building 26 single-family homes on sites of 2 acres or more at Long Meadows at Davis Mill in Germantown. The Hawthorne model, with 3,639 square feet, is priced from $799,900.
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Passengers walk on a quay as they try to get on a ship to cross Yangon river in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 25, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Sudanese armed forces ride in a military vehicle at the oil-rich border town of Heglig, Sudan, on Tuesday, April 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf)
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Claire Squires, 30, collapsed and died while running the London Marathon on Sunday. The cause of her death hasn't been determined. (Associated Press)
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley speaks at the Special Committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety panel during the National Governors Association winter meeting in Washington, on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Actor Sean Penn (left) was in Haiti helping the displaced find shelter shortly after the massive 2010 earthquake that destroyed much of the country. He since has become a major figure in the effort to rebuild. Among his contributions is a clinic for women (above) at the Petionville Golf Club in Port-au-Prince set up by Mr. Penn's J/P Haitian Relief Organization.
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Mr. Penn, with Haitian President Michel Martelly, was named ambassador-at-large for Haiti in recognition of his humanitarian work since the earthquake. "My job is to help people get the future they want to have," Mr. Penn says.
