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rod lamkey jr./the washington times Redsklns strong safety LaRon Landry played in just nine games last season before being placed on the injured reserve list Dec. 13 with microtears in an Achilles' tendon.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A towing-service employee wades through floodwaters to reach disabled cars on Amboy Road in Staten Island, N.Y., on Sunday. The weather service says showers and thunderstorms are expected to dump 2 more inches of rain on top of nearly 8 inches of rain that fell on New York City on Sunday. No deaths were reported.
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Rescuers from the Alaska Air National Guard carry one of the victims of a small-plane crash to a waiting HC-130 at McGrath Airport in Kuskokwim, Alaska, on Sunday. The pilot and one passenger were killed; a couple and their two children survived. (Anchorage Daily News via The Associated Press)
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Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels wipes a tear during a memorial service for the five people who were killed when a stage collapsed Saturday at the Indiana State Fair. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
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Judy Nicewinter (center) comforts Dianne Semento during a memorial service at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis on Monday, Aug. 15, 2011, for those killed in a weekend stage collapse. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
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Police officers prepare to storm the building of the Defense Ministry in Tallinn, Estonia, Aug. 11, 2011. A gunman opened fire inside Estonia's Defense Ministry and tried to take hostages on Thursday, but he apparently was shot and killed by police who stormed the building, an official said.(AP Photo/Timur Nisametdinov/NIPA)
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The tsunami disaster and economic hardship in Japan have created a new breed of entrepreneurs. Kenji Yui (left) and Hideki Suenaga have opened a makeshift "temporary pub" in Ishinomaki where they sell sake and cheap clothing, and play classic rock covers for diehard locals who refuse to abandon the devastated business district. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Members of a Pakistani family (top) displaced by last's year flooding, erect their tent in Charsada, one of many villages in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province devastated by water that in some places was 15 feet deep. Others find shelter in the ruins of a house in Charsada. In the village of Nowashera, flies gather on a little girl's face while she naps in a tent. In the nearby village of Wairar Sibra, however, locals are preparing to move into new houses, complete with electricity and courtyards, thanks to the largess of the man who owns the power plant looming over the settlement.
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Last August's flooding in tore through Azakheil near Peshawar, Pakistan. Residents of village whose lives were washed away complain that they have been largely forgotten.
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The wreckage of a Chinook helicopter shot down on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011, is seen at the site of crash in the Tangi Valley of Wardak province, some 60 miles southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 11, 2011. The crash killed 30 Americans and eight Afghans in the single worst loss of U.S. service members in the 10-year-old war. (Associated Press)
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Michael Harris Homes is building 31 single-family homes on quarter-acre sites at Chestnut Lodge in Rockville. The Woodlawn model, with 3,250 square feet, is priced from $944,990.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A law enforcement official photographs an SUV that suddenly accelerated out of control and struck and killed three walking-club members waiting on a sidewalk for friends in Voorheesville, N.Y., on Wednesday.
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American Apparel shows signs of damage on Market street in Manchester city centre, England, Tuesday Aug. 9, 2011. (AP Photo / Dave Thompson / PA)
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Smoke rises from a burning Sony distribution center reportedly set alight by rioters, in Enfield, north London. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)
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Firefighters fight a blaze at the Sony warehouse that was allegedly set alight, early Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011 during unrest in Enfield, North London. Violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the country's most serious unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
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Somali refugees carry their donated rations of food aid on Aug. 7, 2011, in the eastern Kenyan village of Hagadera near Dadaab, 60 miles from the Somali border. (Associated Press)
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Shop fronts are seen damaged in Enfield area of north London on Aug. 8, 2011, following restive protests overnight. Renewed unrest erupted on London streets amid community anger over a fatal police shooting. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Police vehicles drive past a fire in a building in Tottenham, north London, on Sunday after a demonstration against the death of a local man turned violent, and cars and shops were set on fire. Disturbances subsequently broke out in Enfield, about 5 miles north of Tottenham.
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Firefighters look at a burned-out building in Tottenham, north London, still being damped down after a demonstration against the death of a local man turned violent and cars and shops were set ablaze. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Police vehicles drive past a fire in a building in Tottenham, north London, on Sunday after a demonstration against the death of a local man turned violent and cars and shops were set on fire. Eight officers were hospitalized during the riots.
