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Charles Kendrick Lee (right), charged in the slaying of Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor, is joined by attorneys David Brener (left) and Wilbur Smith in a Miami courtroom Dec. 21, 2007. (The Associated Press)

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K. Hovnanian Homes is building 41 single-family homes on quarter-acre sites at Belmont Crest in Upper Marlboro. The Delaware model, with 3,021 square feet, is priced from $415,990.

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NVHomes is building 70 town homes and 30 single-family homes at Canary Creek in Lewes, Del. The town homes range in size from 1,983 to 2,023 square feet and are priced from $299,990 to $319,990. The Pebble Beach end-unit town-home model is priced from $319,990.

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Britain's Prince William, a Royal Air Force helicopter pilot, has deployed to the Falklands as tension between Argentina and the United Kingdom builds. A government dispatch called him a "conquistador."

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This image made from Egypt TV shows fans and a fire on Feb.1, 2012, at a soccer stadium in Port Said, Egypt. Dozens of Egyptians were killed in violence following a soccer match when fans flooded the field seconds after the match against a rival team was over, Egypt's health ministry said. (Associated Press/Egypt TV via APTN)

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American Airlines baggage handlers help passengers check luggage at Dallas-Fort Worth International airport in Grapevine, Texas, on Feb. 1, 2012. (Associated Press)

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International Church of the Restoration parishioners in Marietta, Ga., mourn Jan. 30, 2012, the loss of Pastor Jose Carmo Jr., his wife Adriana and their daughter Leticia Carmo, who were killed the previous day in a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 75 in Florida. (Associated Press)

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An aerial view shows Interstate 75 in Gainesville, Fla., on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, after 11 people died as a result of multiple crashes caused by fog and smoke from a wildfire. (Associated Press/The Gainesville Sun)

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Residents retrieve belongings in December after authorities demolished their unauthorized houses in northeastern Delhi, which contains India's most crowded neighborhoods. Some homes are made of a single layer of brick, with extra floors added without support for the weight. Below, narrow streets are lined by buildings jammed together. Experts say a major earthquake is likely to hit the city, but next to nothing has been done to prepare for it, in part because of poverty. (Associated Press)

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In this Dec. 20, 2011 photo, commuters move past congested houses built close to each other in India's most crowded northeast district of New Delhi, India. If a major earthquake were to strike India's seismically vulnerable capital, this neighborhood, home to 2.2 million people and India's most crowded district, would likely collapse into an apocalyptic nightmare. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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M/I Homes is building 47 town homes at Station View in Ashburn. The homes have 2,329 to 2,350 finished square feet, with base prices from $389,990 to $394,990.

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The center-island kitchen in the Griffin model at the Legacy at Manning Village has an adjacent breakfast area.

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**FILE** The string of islands known as Senkaku islands in Japanese, and Diaoyu in Chinese, are seen here Sept. 29, 2010. Relations between China and Japan were strained when a Chinese fishing boat collided with Japanese patrol vessels earlier that month near the islands in the East China Sea that are claimed by both countries as well as Taiwan. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** The 2011 Chevrolet Volt debuts Dec. 2, 2009, at the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles. (Associated Press)

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A scuba diver makes his way into a flooded cabin of the grounded Costa Concordia cruise ship off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, in this undated photo. (AP Photo/Italian navy GOS)

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D.C. firefighters walk out of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Northwest on Tuesday after a speech by fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe (Barbara Salisbury/THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

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Washington Redskins safety Laron Landry missed most of the 2011 season with an Achilles tendon injury. (AP Photo)

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A Boeing 787 lands at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kan., on Friday. Boeing is building its 787 Dreamliner to use 20 percent less fuel than the jet it replaces. (Associated Press)

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Megaupload.com founder, former CEO and current chief innovation officer of Megaupload.com Kim Dotcom (also known as Kim Schmitz and Kim Tim Jim Vestor) appears Jan. 20, 2012, in North Shore District Court in Auckland, New Zealand. (Associated Press)

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Residents walk through the debris of their neighborhood after a possible tornado ripped through the Trussville, Ala., area in the early hours of Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)