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** FILE ** An elementary school student is walked to class as a spring storm dropped snow over Boulder, Colo., Tuesday April 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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**FILE** A Fairfax County Police vehicle sits at the entrance to Westfield High School in Chantilly, Va., on April 17, 2007. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Police and firefighters gather outside La Salle High School, Monday, April 29, 2013, in Cincinnati, after a high school student pulled out a gun and shot himself in a classroom. The Hamilton County sheriff's office says the youth was taken to a hospital with a self-inflicted wound. (AP Photo/Cincinnati Enquirer, Glenn Hartong)
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A high school in Wilcox County, Georgia, hosted its first racially mixed prom over the weekend. (Screen shot: ABC News)
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Second year grad student Elizabeth Weiner, right, watches as UMD student and volunteer pilot Colin Gore, center, performs a test flight as students with the University of Maryland attempt to win the $250,000 AHS Sikorsky Prize using their human-powered helicopter at the Prince George's County Sports and Learning Complex in Landover, Md., Sunday, April 28, 2013. The helicopter has already set records for flight time and altitude. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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The team, including second-year graduate student Elizabeth Weiner keeps tabs on pilot Colin Gore. "They see a problem and they go and solve it," team adviser V.T. Nagaraj says. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Second year grad student Elizabeth Weiner, right, watches as UMD student and volunteer pilot Colin Gore, center, performs a test flight as students with the University of Maryland attempt to win the $250,000 AHS Sikorsky Prize using their human-powered helicopter at the Prince George's County Sports and Learning Complex in Landover, Md., Sunday, April 28, 2013. The helicopter has already set records for flight time and altitude. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Students study at Paul VI Catholic High School, which was recently threatened in an online forum with a Boston Massacre-style terror attack. (Image: PaulVI.net)
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Valerie Parlave of the FBI's Washington field office — flanked by Rod J. Rosenstein, U.S. attorney for Maryland (left) and Ronald Machen Jr., U.S. attorney for the District — speaks about the return to the U.S. of Mr. Toth, a former teacher at the Beauvoir school who fled the U.S. in 2008,
