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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)
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The sun shines through wildfire smoke in Grimes County near Plantersville, Texas. (AP Photo/The Courier, Karl Anderson)
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A Bryan Fire Department firefighter watches a plume of smoke rise over the City of Bryan mobile command post on in Plantersville, Texas. (AP Photo/The Courier, Karl Anderson)
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A scorched fallen tree flames up after wildfires swept through the East Texas area. More than three dozen homes have been destroyed by the fires. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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A volunteer firefighter extinguishes flares from a wildfire near Stoneham, Texas, on Monday, June 20, 2011. Several wildfires broke out from unusually hot and windy weather. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran)
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The sun shines through wildfire smoke on Monday, June 20, 2011, in Grimes County near Plantersville, Texas. (AP Photo/The Courier, Karl Anderson)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A temporary ban on the filing of new mining claims near the Grand Canyon was meant to slow a flurry of new uranium mining operations planned near the park. Thousands of claims exist for all types of hard-rock exploration, and some of the uranium claims are within five miles of the park's boundaries.
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The Fort Calhoun Station nuclear-power plant in Nebraska is surrounded by floodwaters from the Missouri River. Officials said there is no danger of a radiation leak at the plant 19 miles north of Omaha. (Associated Press)
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Floods, drought and wildfires have affected Bolivian agriculture in the past year, but other factors - like government price controls - are weighing down on the livelihood of the country's farmers and economy. (Associated Press)
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Flames from the Monument Fire move toward Highway 92 in Sierra Vista, Ariz., on June 19, 2011. (Associated Press/Sierra Vista Herald-Bisbee Daily Review)
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DC Brau chose to go with cans over bottles in part because cans are easier to take to picnics, concerts and other recreational events. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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In this file photo, a Greka Oil & Gas cleanup crew works on an oil spill flowing down a creek behind Firestone Vineyard, north of Los Olivos, Calif. in January 2008. On April 11, 2018, California regulators hit the troubled company with a record $12.5 million fine following nearly 1,500 violations in the past year at an oil field in Orange County. (Santa Barbara County Fire Department via Associated Press) **FILE**
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A plane drops slurry near houses after a fire sparked on Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista, Ariz., on June 17, 2011. (Associated Press/Arizona Daily Star)
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Various police and fire agencies work at the nearby wreckage site of a small plane crash, Saturday, June 18, 2011 in Armonk, N.Y.. Officials say a small plane crashed about a mile north of a suburban airport north of New York City, bursting into flames and killing three people on board. (Associated Press/The Journal News)
