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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A flag noting the killing of Osama bin Laden is placed at the temporary memorial in Shanksville, Pa., to the pasengers who were killed while stopping terrorists aboard United Airlines Flight 93 on May 2.
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Bruce Shade is evacuated from his mobile home park along Zimmy's Drive in Conewago Township, Pa., on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. The remnants of slow-moving Tropical Storm Lee dumped more rain on the already waterlogged state, with forecasters warning residents across the state to brace for more potential flooding. (AP Photo/York Daily Record/Sunday News)
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Ryan Homes is building 81 town homes and condominiums at Market Square at Frederick in Frederick. The Mozart model town home, with 1,709 square feet, is priced from $269,990.
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Cars drive through high water on Route 50 in Cheverly, Md., Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. As the leftovers from Tropical Storm Lee brought welcome wet weather to farmers in the Southeast, many areas of the East Coast were getting soaked, bringing new concerns about flooding. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Donna Eldred and Don Bourcier lay flowers at a small memorial at the IHOP in Carson City, Nev., on Wednesday, the day after Eduardo Sencion (left) fatally shot four and wounded seven before killing himself. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS The space shuttle Atlantis astronauts [from left] mission specialists Rex Walheim and Sandy Magnus, pilot Doug Hurley and commander Chris Ferguson acknowledge well-wishers after leaving the operations and checkout building en route to the launching pad at the Kennedy Space Center on July 8 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis was the 135th and final space shuttle launch for NASA.
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Redskins linebacker Brian Orakpo and strong safety LaRon Landry will be game-time decisions on Sunday when Washington faces the Arizona Cardinals. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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This undated photo shows Canadian Brad McCrimmon, coach of the Lokomotiv ice hockey team, killed in a plane crash on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. A Russian jet carrying the Lokomotiv team crashed while taking off Wednesday near the western city of Yaroslavl, 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Moscow. The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the plane was carrying the Lokomotiv ice hockey team from Yaroslavl. It was one of the worst plane crashes ever involving a sports team. (AP Photo/Photo Agency KHL)
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Illustration: Red tape by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times
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Associated Press Turkana people wait in line to receive food from a famine-relief charity in Turkana district, Kenya, on Aug. 30. The U.N. says tens of thousands already have died in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti owing to famine.
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A crane collapses at Washington National Cathedral causing one injury and damage to a nearby building and crushing parked cars in Washington, DC, Wednesday September 7, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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A crane collapses at Washington National Cathedral causing one injury and damage to a nearby building and crushing parked cars in Washington, DC, Wednesday September 7, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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The wreckage of a Russian Yak-42 jet is seen near the city of Yaroslavl, on the Volga River about 150 miles northeast of Moscow, on Sept. 7, 2011. The jet, carrying the Lokomotiv ice hockey team from Yaroslavl, crashed while taking off, officials said. (Associated Press)
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Wreckage of Russian Yak-42 jet is seen near the city of Yaroslavl, on the Volga River about 150 miles northeast of Moscow, on Sept. 7, 2011. The jet, carrying a top ice hockey team at the time, crashed while taking off, killing at least 43 people and leaving one critically injured, officials said. (Associated Press)
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Curtis Heath throws a bucket of water on a burning debris pile on Henry Knight's property near Linden, Texas, on Sept. 6, 2011. Heath, his wife and his son helped keep the fire from destroying the Knights' home and several other buildings. (Associated Press/The Texarkana Gazette)
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Brandon Franklin picks up a tar ball washed in by Tropical Storm Lee from amid shells at Gulf Shores, Ala., on Sept. 6, 2011. Franklin, coastal plans manager for the city, said the tar balls are suspected of being pieces of submerged tar mats left over from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (Associated Press)
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Pakistani police officer walks past burning vehicle at the site of suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. A pair of suicide bombers attacked the house of a top military officer in the southwestern city of Quetta, killing his wife and scores of other people, including soldiers, authorities said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS With bullet holes seen in a window, officers look for evidence at the scene of a shooting at an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday. The gunman killed Two National Guard members, another person and himself.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A poster of the movie "Captain America" stands in front of the main entrance to a cinema Tuesday in central Jakarta, Indonesia. A monopoly on film imports that is holding the number of Hollywood blockbusters entering Indonesia to a trickle faces growing scrutiny amid widespread disgruntlement.
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Police officers look through a bullet-damaged window of an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison)
