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From left, Jordan Crowe, Raegan Fulmer and Natalie White pray on Friday near a stretch of Highway 129 in Duncan, S.C., where Aaron Shawn Hill, 18, died in a car crash. The teenager was killed in a wreck on a stretch of highway named in memory of his father, a soldier slain in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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Polish opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski places a candle at the memorial dedicated to his twin brother, Lech, and the other passengers who died in the plane crash near Smolensk, Russia, on April 10, 2010. (Associated Press)
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Banners and placards are held aloft during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw on Sunday marking the first anniversary of the plane crash in Russia that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others. Poland is still deeply divided over the investigation into the crash. A year later, 42 percent of Poles now see Polish-Russian relations as "bad." (Associated Press)
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A Polish officer salutes at the site of the plane crash in western Russia that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and more than 90 others a year ago. A ceremony marked the anniversary. (Associated Press)
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A Japanese Buddhist monk prays at an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on Sunday, April 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Injured people are carried out of a shopping mall after a shooting in Alpen aan den Rijn, 15 miles (25 kilometers) southwest of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, April 9, 2011. A gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon at a shopping mall outside Amsterdam on Saturday, leaving at least four people dead and wounding 16 others, Dutch officials said. (AP Photo/www.regio15.nl)
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Colorado Avalanche captain Adam Foote announces his retirement from hockey at a news conference in Denver on Friday, April 8, 2011. Foote, 39, is wrapping up his 19th season in the NHL. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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Japanese people line up to buy food at a supermarket with no electricity in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, on Friday, April 8, 2011. A big aftershock rocked quake-weary Japan late Thursday, rattling nerves as it knocked out power to the northern part of the country and prompted tsunami warnings that were later canceled. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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The Christina, a boutique condominium with 14 renovated homes in the District's Brightwood neighborhood, offers two-bedroom homes ranging in price from $198,900 to $269,900.
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The Remington Place model has a center-island kitchen with stainless steel appliances, granite counters, a walk-in pantry and a breakfast area.
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NVHomes is building single-family homes on 1-acre sites at the Warfields in Glenelg, Md. The homes have 2,708 to 4,576 finished square feet, with base prices from $679,990 to $809,990.
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A Libyan rebel runs for safety as shells explode in the distance on the frontline near Brega on Wednesday. Turkey is trying to broker a cease-fire in the fighting with Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces. The rebels blame the Turks for a lull in the NATO airstrikes that aided their cause. (Associated Press)
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A vessel still sits in a street of Kesennuma, Japan. The March 11 earthquake, tsunami and fires destroyed most of the fishing fleet, ports, and fishing industry along the northeastern coast of Japan. Now radiation has become an issue with seafood from the region. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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A worker (left) at a fish market reacts in an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake in northern Japan. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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Emergency personnel search the dunes and scrub near Oak Beach, N.Y., across the road from where eight bodies have been found. (Associated Press)
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This sushi assortment includes salmon roe, spicy tuna roll, tuna, yellowtail and salmon. The Food and Drug Administration is assuring Americans that food imported from the Pacific Ocean is safe, though increased safety inspections have been put in place. (The Washington Times)
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West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin (center) attended a memorial service in Charleston for the coal miners who died a year ago, one of several services held in the state. Massey Energy Co., owner of the Upper Big Branch Mine where the 29 miners died, shut down production at all of its Appalachian sites in tribute. The cause of the tragedy is still being investigated. (Associated Press)
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A wreath and a list of the 29 miners who died at the Upper Big Branch coal mine explosion were placed at the state coal miners' memorial in Charleston, W.Va., on the first anniversary of the explosion. (Associated Press)
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Evacuees of all ages use the stairs at Rikuzen-Takata No. 1 Junior High to bide time and to keep their knees strong in case they have to escape from earthquake aftershocks or another tsunami. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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Steve Sharp stands outside the large storage building behind his home in Heath, Ky., near Paducah, on Monday, April 4, 2011. The building lost its roof when what is believed to be a severe thunderstorm struck the area Monday morning. (AP Photo/Paducah Sun, John Wright)
