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Velda Norris, from Largo Md., a telecommunications operator for the past six years, fields 911 emergency and 311 non emergency phone calls during the grand opening of the Unified Communications Center. The state of the art communications center will facilitate the coordination of local and regional first responders and emergency preparedness teams, located in Ward 8 of Southeast Washington. Tuesday September 26, 2006 ( Nancy Pastor / The Washington Times )
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Malaysian member of parliament Bung Moktar Radin is receiving widespread criticism after he tweeted "long live Hitler" in response to Germany's win over Brazil Tuesday at the World Cup. (The Malaysian Star)
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Marines of 1st Marine Division standing in formation during a change of command ceremony at Camp Pendleton, Calif. (Lance Cpl. Tyler Reiriz/Marine Corps)
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Under Gina McCarthy, The EPA has been flexing its regulatory muscle, collecting more fines and hitting individuals with penalties for violating environmental rules. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2014, file photo, Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell gestures during a news conference in Juneau, Alaska. Gov. Parnell said Monday, July 6, 2014, he won’t use state resources to study the implications of legalizing marijuana unless voters approve a pot initiative this fall. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
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Marines of 1st Marine Division standing in formation during a change of command ceremony at Camp Pendleton, Calif. (Lance Cpl. Tyler Reiriz/Marine Corps)
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Cars ease under a destroyed railroad bridge near the village of Novobakhmutivka, located north of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Bridges leading into Donetsk were likely destroyed to slow government forces from moving on the rebel-held stronghold. (associated press)
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File-This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a wolverine. A top federal wildlife official says there's too much uncertainty about climate change to prove it threatens the snow-loving wolverine, overruling agency scientists who warned of impending habitat loss. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, File)
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A crew passes traffic backed up on a stretch of State Route 18 after rockslide blocked the road in the Southern California community of Snow Valley, enroute to Big Bear Lake on Saturday, July 5, 2014. Randy Naquin of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said he had no reports of damage from the widely felt small earthquake on Saturday. (AP Photo/The Sun, Rick Sforza) MANDATORY CREDIT; LA TIMES OUT; VENTURA COUNTY STAR OUT; RIVERSIDE PRESS ENTERPRISE OUT; THE VICTOR VALLEY DAILY PRESS OUT
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In this Tuesday, July 2, 2014 photo, dark clouds loom over a partially damaged cornfield east of Colona, Ill. A round of severe thunderstorms Monday damaged area crops and dumped a record amount of rain. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this week that most of Illinois’ corn crop is in great shape. But some farmers in western and central Illinois suffered extensive damage from the storms. (AP Photo/The Dispatch, Todd Mizener) QUAD CITY TIMES OUT
