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Boston Police detectives search for evidence after a pre-dawn shooting Tuesday in which four people, including a toddler, were fatally shot and a fifth sustained life-threatening injuries. Boston has experienced a spike in violent crime this year. (Associated Press)
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University of Texas students gather as police respond to a shooting inside a campus library Tuesday. A gunman later identified by Austin police as a student opened fire, then fatally shot himself. (Associated Press)
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In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service, North Korean youth dance to celebrate North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's re-election to the party's top position of general secretary in a Workers' Party meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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Police officers escort a student to safety, across from the Perry-Castaneda Library, after a shooting at the University of Texas library in Austin on Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010. A gunman opened fire Tuesday inside a University of Texas campus library then fatally shot himself, and police are searching for a possible second suspect, university police said. (AP Photo/The Daily Texan, Andrew Torrey)
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In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service, North Korean youth dance to celebrate North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's re-election to the party's top position of general secretary in Workers' Party meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Bob Graham, co-chairman of the commission investigating the BP oil spill, said federal officials underestimated their challenge just as George Custer did at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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Eric Lobner, with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, places sandbags Monday where water is seeping through a levee in Portage. An estimated 75 of 300 area residents have decided to stay in their homes, he said. (Associated Press)
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Workers operate the Plan C drill on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010, during efforts to rescue the 33 miners trapped at the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile. The miners have been trapped deep underground in the copper and gold mine since it collapsed on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)
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Catholics pray in the rubble of the Notre Dame cathedral during mass in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday Sept. 26, 2010. Haiti was devastated by a magnitude-7 earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010 that killed a government-estimated 300,000 people and left millions homeless. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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A musician plays a trumpet during a mass in honor of those killed in the earthquake in the Fort National neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday Sept. 26, 2010. Haiti was devastated by a magnitude-7 earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010 which killed a government-estimated 300,000 people. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Antoine Fesnell, right, prays as his daughters Nicole, 9, center, and Antoine, 6, look on during mass in the rubble of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday Sept. 26, 2010. Fesnell's wife died in the magnitude-7 earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010 and killed a government-estimated 300,000 people and left millions homeless. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Catholics pray in the rubble of the Notre Dame cathedral during mass in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday Sept. 26, 2010. Haiti was devastated by a magnitude-7 earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010 that killed a government-estimated 300,000 people and left millions homeless. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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People attend a mass in honor of those killed in the earthquake in the Fort National neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday Sept. 26, 2010. Haiti was devastated by a magnitude-7 earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010 which killed a government-estimated 300,000 people. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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People begin to gather for a mass in honor of those killed in the earthquake in the Fort National neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday Sept. 26, 2010. Haiti was devastated by a magnitude-7 earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010 which killed a government-estimated 300,000 people. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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People attend a mass in honor of those killed in the earthquake in the Fort National neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday Sept. 26, 2010. Haiti was devastated by a magnitude-7 earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010 which killed a government-estimated 300,000 people. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Jimi Heselden, 62, a British businessman who last year bought the company that makes the two-wheeled Segway personal transporter, has died in an accident on one of the vehicles. (AP Photo/Andy Paraskos/Hesco Bastion /PA Wire)
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** FILE ** Kenneth Feinberg, BP oil spill fund administrator, listens to citizen complaints about the system during a town-hall meeting in Orange Beach, Ala., on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010.
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A pilot whale is loaded onto a truck Friday, Sept. 24, 2010, to be transported to Rarawa Bay for release after a mass whale stranding at Spirits Bay in the Far North, New Zealand. Rescuers on Friday began moving the 24 survivors of a pod of 80 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a remote northern New Zealand beach to a more sheltered area in an attempt to save them. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Richard Robinson)
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Two anti-terrorist policemen, center, secure one of the passengers as a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777 is evacuated at Stockholm Arlanda International airport September 25, 2010. The aircraft was en route from Toronto to Karachi, when Canadian authorities received a tip-off that a passenger could be carrying explosives and the plane was diverted to Stockholm. (AP Photo/Fredrik Persson)
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Detroit Red Wings' Johan Franzen, left, collides with Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik in the first period of a preseason NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010. Franzen was helped off the ice after the collision. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
