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Reggie Owens, a football player for South Carolina State University, is being hailed a hero after he rushed to the aid of three injured children upon witnessing a horrific DUI crash. (WCNC)

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Two New Yorkers trying to rebuild their lives in Connecticut after Hurricane Sandy took their homes have won the lottery. (WTNH)

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Burmese fishermen arrive at the compound of Pusaka Benjina Resources to report themselves for departure to leave the fishing company in Benjina, Aru Islands, Indonesia, Friday, April 3, 2015. Hundreds of foreign fishermen on Friday rushed at the chance to be rescued from the isolated island where an Associated Press report revealed slavery runs rampant in the industry. Indonesian officials investigating abuses offered to take them out of concern for the men's safety. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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Frances Scoggins, left, speaks to Michael McCall, general manager for Chattanooga Labeling Systems, about her resume during a huge 15-county North Georgia job fair at The Colonnade in Ringgold, Ga., on Thursday, April 2, 2015. Scoggins has been unemployed for the past 4-months and is looking for a safety or manufacturing job. (AP Photo/Chattanooga Times Free Press, Dan Henry)

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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National Edition Opinion cover for April 3, 2015 - ISIS in the driver’s seat (Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times)

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Vietnamese orphans with their adoptive families take a walking tour along a street in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) upon their arrival in Vietnam Monday April 3, 2000. The group of 38 includes 15 orphans as well as their adoptive families. Three are survivors of the ill-fated U.S. government C-5 cargo jet crash on April 4, 1975, that killed 124 people, including 78 children. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

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Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Billy Spears is reportedly being forced to undergo counseling after he posed for a photo with Snoop Dogg while working at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin. (Instagram/@snoopdogg)

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The F-35 Lightning II pilot helmet can "see" through the plane. Cameras allow a pilot to view the world below the aircraft when he looks down instead of the inside of the cockpit. (Image: Lockheed Martin)

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Astronaut Sam Cristoforetti took a photo of a super typhoon from space. (Image: Twitter, Sam Cristoforetti)

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CEO of Germanwings Thomas Winkelmann, left, and Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr attend a press conference near the site of the Germanwings jet crash, in Le Vernet, France, Wednesday, April 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

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In this Feb. 27, 2013, file photo, Japan's Misao Okawa, then 114, poses with the certificate of the world's oldest woman, which was presented to her by Guinness World Records Japan Country Manager Erika Ogawa, unseen, at a nursing home in Osaka, western Japan. The world's oldest person has died nearly a month after celebrating her 117th birthday. Her nursing home says Misao Okawa died of heart failure early Wednesday, April 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, File)

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Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin (8), of Russia, celebrates his goal against the Carolina Hurricanes during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Tuesday, March 31, 2015, in Washington. It was Ovechkins' 50th goal of the year. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

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Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin, center, of Russia, celebrates his goal against the Carolina Hurricanes with Matt Niskanen (2) and Joel Ward, right, during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Tuesday, March 31, 2015, in Washington. It was Ovechkins' 50th goal of the year. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

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Israeli police officers secure a destroyed house that was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza, in Yahud, a Tel Aviv suburb near the airport, central Israel, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. As a result, Delta Air Lines and U.S. Airlines decided to cancel their scheduled flights to Israel. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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CARIBBEAN SEA (Sept. 21, 2012) A BQM-74E drone launches from the flight deck of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigate USS Underwood (FFG 36) during a live-fire drone exercise. U.S. Navy photo.

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Drones fly at the Autel booth during the International Consumer Electronics Show Jan. 7 in Las Vegas. (Associated Press)

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National Edition News cover for March 27, 2015 - Rescue workers work on debris of the Germanwings jet at the crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, France, Thursday, March 26, 2015. The co-pilot of the Germanwings jet barricaded himself in the cockpit and “intentionally” rammed the plane full speed into the French Alps, ignoring the captain’s frantic pounding on the cockpit door and the screams of terror from passengers, a prosecutor said Thursday. In a split second, he killed all 150 people aboard the plane. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

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A Houthi Shiite fighter stands guard as people search for survivors under the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi airstrikes near Sanaa airport in Yemen, Thursday. Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes targeting military installations in Yemen held by Shiite rebels. (Associated Press)

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Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, center, with Gen. David Galtier, right,holds a press conference in Marseille, southern France, Thursday March 26, 2015. Robin said the co-pilot was alone at the controls of the Germanwings flight that slammed into an Alpine mountainside and "intentionally" sent the plane into the doomed descent, killing 150 people. (AP Photo)