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Officials investigate the scene of a prison transport bus crash in Penwell, Texas, on Jan. 14, 2015. Law enforcement officials said the bus carrying prisoners and corrections officers fell from an overpass in West Texas and crashed onto train tracks below, killing an unspecified number of people. (Associated Press/The Odessa American, Mark Sterkel)
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A passenger is seen riding a subway train as it leaves the L'Enfant Metro Station in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, part of the public mass transit network for Washington. The transit network in the nation's capital, remains hobbled after an electrical malfunction that filled a L'Enfant Metro subway station with smoke, killing one woman and sending dozens of people to hospitals. The NTSB is investigating the incident, which happened at the beginning of the Monday afternoon rush hour. It led to the first fatality on Washington's Metro system since a 2009 crash that killed eight passengers and a train operator. NTSB investigator Michael Flanigon told reporters that an electrical "arcing" involving the high-voltage third rail led a train to stop in a tunnel and filled the tunnel with smoke. An arcing occurs when electricity from the third rail comes into contact with another substance that conducts electricity, such as water. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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The Coast Guard has increased its patrols in response to a surge of Cubans trying to cross illegally to the U.S. Officials say many of the boats were put together hastily, making the perilous journey even more dangerous. (Associated Press)
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Reynaldo Hernandez holds a cloth over his face after being evacuated from a smoke filled Metro subway tunnel Monday that left one dead and sent dozens to the hospital. Authorities say the source of the smoke is unknown. (Associated Press)
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Capitals defenseman Nate Schmidt will miss six-to-eight weeks with a broken left shoulder blade following a collision while playing for the Hershey Bears on Sunday. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Pharmacists who made serious or potentially fatal errors dispensing drugs at the VA in New Jersey kept their jobs and often weren't even severely disciplined, according to testimony from their colleagues and other records. (Associated Press)
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Ralph Stanley 87, is a Virginia-bred bluegrass icon whose music has influenced a flood of successful musicians over the years, but his brand seems to be losing fans and record sales to younger, sure-fire country hit makers: the formulaic mashups. (Associated Press)
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Former Miami Dolphins fullback Rob Konrad, left, listens while his wife Tammy, right, responds to a question during a news conference where he told about his ordeal of swimming nine miles to shore after he fell off his boat while fishing last week off the South Florida coast, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, in Plantation, Fla. Konrad fell off his 36-foot-boat while fishing alone. The boat was on auto pilot and floated away. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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FILE - This Oct. 5, 2009 file photo shows Joan Rivers posing as she presents "Comedy Roast with Joan Rivers " during the 25th MIPCOM (International Film and Programme Market for TV, Video, Cable and Satellite) in Cannes, southeastern France. The New York City clinic where Joan Rivers suffered a fatal complication during a medical procedure is losing its federal accreditation. The federal Centers for Medicare Services says Yorkville Endoscopy no longer meets the conditions to be a supplier of ambulatory surgical center services. Rivers died Sept. 4 at age 81. The city's medical examiner found she died of brain damage due to lack of oxygen after she stopped breathing during an endoscopy days earlier. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)
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Emergency personnel watch as fireworks ignite at the scene of a fiery crash that closed both sides of Interstate 90, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015, between mile markers 88 and 92 in eastern Kalamazoo County, near Galesburg, Mich. State police say at least one person has died in the series of crashes involving roughly 150 vehicles, including at least two semi-trucks carrying fireworks and other hazardous materials. Authorities are blaming snow, wind and poor visibility in the crash. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group, Mark Bugnaski) ALL LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; LOCAL TELEVISION INTERNET OUT
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Armed securtiy forces fly overhead in a military helicopter in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, Friday Jan. 9, 2015. French security forces swarmed this small industrial town northeast of Paris Friday in an operation to capture a pair of heavily armed suspects in the deadly storming of a satirical newspaper. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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People are evacuated outside the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's office, in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015. Masked gunmen stormed the offices of a French satirical newspaper Wednesday, killing at least 11 people before escaping, police and a witness said. The weekly has previously drawn condemnation from Muslims. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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A pedestrian walks past stuck city buses during a heavy snowstorm in the District. Slick roadways restricted the movement of Metro busses Tuesday, with drivers sticking to snow routes that included mostly major arteries. (Associated Press)
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This June 26, 2007 file photo shows a sign depicting U.S. Forest mascot Smokey Bear on a fire danger sign in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., as smoke from a wildfire rises behind it. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
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Riverside County firefighters reportedly spent two hours Saturday morning rescuing a naked woman who had gotten stuck in her ex-boyfriend's chimney. (Twitter/Riverside County Fire Department/Jared Hazelaar)
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Like all Volvos, the 2015 Volvo S60 is all about style, luxury and the art of being. Volvo has put much attention into constant consumer safety, and in this S60 it is no different. The Volvo S60 has received excellent crash test scores, but even better you still get a strong engine and quality design. (Photo by Rita Cook)
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National Edition News cover for January 4, 2015 - 700 miles of U.S.-Mexico border still insecure, congressional investigators say: In this Sept. 5, 2014 photo, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine agent pears out of the open door of a helicopter during a patrol flight near the Texas-Mexico border near McAllen, Texas. Since illegal immigration spiked in the Rio Grande Valley this summer, the Border Patrol has dispatched more agents, the Texas Department of Public Safety has sent more troopers and Texas Gov. Rick Perry deployed as many as 1,000 guardsmen to the area. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
