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Charles Flanagan, (left) director of the Division of Child Safety and Family Services listens to Gov. Jan Brewer during a press briefing on the plan to create a new child-welfare agency in the executive tower at the Arizona state capitol in Phoenix on Thursday, May 22, 2014. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace)
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2nd Lt. James Taaffe was the lone survivor after the plane flown by former Washington Senators player Elmer Gedeon was shot down over France on April 20, 1944. Gedeon and four other crew members were killed. Taaffe spent the rest of the war as a POW. (Courtesy Taaffe family)
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Detroit Fire Commissioner Edsel Jenkins speaks during a news conference in Detroit, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Actor Denis Leary plans to present to the Detroit fire department new equipment paid for by proceeds from a documentary film about the city’s firefighters. “Burn” chronicles the struggles of Detroit firefighters. The donation is being made through the Leary Firefighters Foundation. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates)
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Scott Dixon, of New Zealand, responds to a question during a media interview for the Indianapolis 500 IndyCar auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Thursday, May 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
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A firetruck provides water for a crew on the ground as firefighters backburned near Funny River Road Wednesday May 21, 2014 in Soldotna, Alaska. Fire crews have been battling a wildfire that has grown to more than 44,000 acres in three days. (AP Photo/Peninsula Clarion, Rashah McChesney)
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Texas Rangers center fielder Dan Robertson, foreground, is escorted off the field after a collision with teammate Alex Rios during the third inning of a baseball game in Detroit, Thursday, May 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a fatal accident in Blythe, Calif. on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. A tractor-trailer spilled a load of steel pipes onto a highway, triggering a bus crash Wednesday that killed four people and seriously injured several others on the main road linking Southern California and Arizona, authorities said. (AP Photo/Brian Skoloff)
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Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a fatal accident in Blythe, Calif. on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. A tractor-trailer spilled a load of steel pipes onto a highway, triggering a bus crash Wednesday that killed four people and seriously injured several others on the main road linking Southern California and Arizona, authorities said. (AP Photo/Brian Skoloff)
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The Slide Fire burns near 89 A south of Flagstaff, Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Evacuations of surrounding areas took place late afternoon Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Tom Tingle)
