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Relatives and friends of nine people killed in the June 22, 2009, Metrorail Red Line crash attended a memorial ceremony Wednesday at the Fort Totten Station. A plaque placed at the station commemorates those who died. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Keonda King, whose little sister Lavonda King was killed in a Metrorail crash, holds her sister's son, Emmanuel King, 7, as she hugs Evelyn Fernandez, whose mother also was killed in the crash. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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The Washington Times Darryl Benson-El sells fireworks to teens Dalonte Brown (left) and James Johnson at a stand on Bladensburg Road Northeast in the District in July 2009. In 2010, fireworks-related injuries sent 8,000 people to the emergency room, with an estimated 50 percent of injuries happening to people under 20 years old.

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A memorial plaque is displayed during a wreath laying ceremony at the Fort Totten Metro Station in Washington, D.C., for the nine people killed in the June 22, 2009 Metrorail crash. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Family members and friends of the nine people killed in the June 22, 2009, Metrorail crash lay roses on a memorial plaque at the Fort Totten Metrorail Station in Washington, D.C., on June 22, 2011, during a memorial service and wreath laying ceremony. Monica Cochran (left center), whose sister Veronica Dubose was killed in the crash, hugs Evelyn Fernandez, whose mother was killed. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Brittnae Rowe displays a tattoo in the name of her best friend Lavonda "Nikki" King, who was one of nine people killed in the June 22, 2009, Metrorail crash, during a memorial service and wreath laying ceremony at the Fort Totten Metrorail Station in Washington, D.C., on June 22, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Keonda King, whose younger sister, Lavonda "Nikki" King, was among nine people killed in a June 22, 2009, Metrorail crash, holds her sister's son Emmanuel, 7, as she hugs Evelyn Fernandez (in white), whose mother was killed in the crash, during a memorial service and wreath laying ceremony at the Fort Totten Metrorail Station in Washington, D.C., on June 22, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Carolyn Jenkins holds a photo of her daughter, Veronica Dubose, with a morgue tag affixed during a memorial service on June 22, 2011, near the Fort Totten Metrorail Station in Washington, D.C., for the nine people killed in a Metrorail crash two years ago. Mrs. Dubose was one of those killed in the crash. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Evelyn Fernandez (center) cries as she talks about the memory of her mother, Ana Fernandez, during a memorial service on June 22, 2011, near the Fort Totten Metro Station in Washington, D.C., for the nine people killed in a Metrorail crash two years ago. Ana Fernandez was one of those killed in the crash. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Family members and friends of the nine people killed in a June 22, 2009, Metrorail crash proceed during a memorial service on June 22, 2011, to the Fort Totten Metrorail Station in Washington, D.C., for a wreath laying ceremony. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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A Metrobus is parked near the Fort Totten Metro Station in Washington, D.C., on June 22, 2011. Nearly two years prior, a Metrorail crash near the station killed nine people and injured numerous others. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Family members and friends of the nine people killed in a June 22, 2009, Metrorail crash proceed during a memorial service on June 22, 2011, to the Fort Totten Metrorail Station in Washington, D.C., for a wreath laying ceremony. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Monica Cochran (center) comforts Veronica Dubose's son Raja (left in orange shirt), 9, daughter Ava (in pink), 3, and her own son Aaron Cochran (right), during a memorial service near the Fort Totten Metro Station in Washington, D.C., on June 22, 2011, for the nine people killed in a Metrorail crash two years ago. Veronica Dubose, Miss Cochran's sister and mother of Raja, Ava and Aaron, was one of those killed in the crash. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** In this Nov. 2, 2010, photo, U.S reality television personality and daredevil Ryan Dunn attends the Jackass 3D UK Premiere at a central London cinema. Police say Dunn and a passenger in his 2007 Porsche died early Monday, June 20, 2011, of injuries sustained in a car crash in suburban Philadelphia. (AP Photo/dapd, Jorge Herrera)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS This image, provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is one of nine new warning labels that cigarette makers must use by the fall of 2012. In the most significant change to U.S. cigarette packs in 25 years, the FDA's the new warning labels graphically depict the health hazards of tobacco use.

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Emergency workers and investigators search the wreckage of a RusAir Tu-134 plane near Petrozavodsk, Russia, on Tuesday, June 21, 2011. The passenger jet crashed in heavy fog and burst into flames late Monday just short of the runway. (AP Photo/Timur Khanov, Komsomolskaya Pravda)

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A partially melted birdhouse sits in the yard beside the smoldering remains of a home in Stoneham, Texas, after wildfires swept through the East Texas area. Firefighters across the drought-plagued state worked Monday to contain multiple wildfires. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)