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** FILE ** Rescuers worked throughout the early morning hours of Sunday, April 17, 2011, at the Lucky Friday Mine in Mullen, Idaho, to clear debris from a collapsed tunnel in search of a miner missing more than a mile underground since Friday, officials said. The miner's brother, who also was working in the mine, was able to escape. (AP Photo/Young Kwak, File)
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Fire and smoke rises from storage warehouse at a construction site that is run by a foreign company, with no clear causes of the incident, in Benghazi, Libya Friday, April 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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A car drives through a partially flooded street, Friday, April 15, 2011, in Decatur, Ala. Waves of strong storms left damage across a wide area of Alabama on Friday, slamming into homes and businesses and forcing promoters to cancel the first race of a busy weekend at the Talladega Superspeedway. (AP Photo/The Decatur Daily, John Godbey)
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** FILE ** In this Sept. 18, 2008, file photo, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Chief Operating Officer Hank Krakowski poses in the cockpit of an FAA jet in a hangar at Washington's Reagan National Airport. Krakowski, the official who oversees the nation's air traffic system resigned Thursday and the FAA began a "top to bottom" review of the entire system following disclosures of four instances of air traffic controllers sleeping on the job. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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Angry residents forced from their homes near Japan's tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant take a seat as they meet officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant's operator, at its headquarters in Tokyo Wednesday, April 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)
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A severe storm passes over east Tulsa and the Renaissance Hotel, in Tulsa, Okla., on Thursday, April 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, James Gibbard)
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A statue of Buddha is seen in the city cemetery in the area devastated by the Match 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on April 14, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Winchester Homes is building three- and four-bedroom homes at the Reserve at Black Rock in Darnestown. The homes are priced from $994,900 to $1,363,900.
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The center-island kitchen in the Belmont model has 42-inch cabinets, granite counters and upgraded appliances.
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Ryland Homes is building single-family homes at Reid's Prospect in Woodbridge. The homes are base-priced from $404,990 to $459,990.
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A woman drove a minivan carrying three of her four children down this boat ramp into the Hudson River in Newburgh, N.Y., on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. All the occupants of the minivan, which was found in 10 feet of water about 25 yards offshore, died, the city fire chief said. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A boy holding an opposition flag is walked back Tuesday to a checkpoint near the front line on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya, for his safety by a rebel thought to be his father. A female relative brought the boy to show support.
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The Rakuten Golden Eagles, a professional team representing disaster-wracked Sendai in northeastern Japan, along with fans in the stands, observe a moment of silence for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami before their baseball game against the Lotte Marines in Chiba, near Tokyo, on Tuesday, when the 2011 pro baseball regular season opened in Japan. (Associated Press)
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Survivors of Japan's March 11 earthquake and tsunami pray Tuesday at the site where their home once stood in Natori, Japan. The natural disasters badly damaged a nuclear power plant, which caused the nation Tuesday to raise its crisis level to 7, the highest rating. (Associated Press)
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Traders work the crude oil options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange on Tuesday. Oil is falling after Goldman Sachs warned investors that crude is due for a "substantial pullback." Oil imports fell in February. (Associated Press)
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Dallas Stars center Mike Ribeiro, left, defenseman Stephane Robidas, center left, center Steve Ott, center right, and left wing Brenden Morrow, right, celebrate a goal by Ribeiro in the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Colorado Avalanche in Denver on Friday, April 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Schneider)
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Baseball fans observe a moment of silence for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami before the start of a game between the Rakuten Golden Eagles, a Japanese professional team based in Sendai, northeastern Japan, and the Lotte Marines in Chiba, near Tokyo, on Tuesday, April 12, 2011. The 2011 pro baseball regular season kicked off on Tuesday in Japan. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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Players of the Rakuten Golden Eagles, a Japanese professional team based in Sendai, northeastern Japan, observe a moment of silence for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami before their baseball game against the Lotte Marines in Chiba, near Tokyo, on Tuesday, April 12, 2011. The 2011 pro baseball regular season kicked off on Tuesday in Japan. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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In this March 11, 2011, photo released on Monday, April 11, 2011, by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), the access road at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is flooded as a tsunami hits the facility following a massive earthquake in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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Brandon Webb's hiring by the D.C. Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services only added fuel to the fire in his mother's scandal, Ms. Webb says.
