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Benson Bell, executive director for Consumer and Environmental Protection, left, and Adam Watson, program coordinator, weigh a bag of hemp seed Friday, May 23, 2014 at the Kentucky Department of Agriculture in Frankfort. Hemp seeds that produced a drawn-out legal fight were freed from confinement and delivered Friday to Kentucky's Agriculture Department for experimental plantings, marking a limited comeback for the non-intoxicating cousin of marijuana. The seeds from Italy that drew so much suspicion from federal drug officials were unceremoniously unloaded from a UPS truck and then weighed by state agriculture officials. The shipment featuring 13 seed varieties came in at 286 pounds. (AP Photo/The Courier-Journal, James Crisp)
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Transit moves on the Interstate 405, with new $1.1 billion in improvements which includes higher-capacity on- and off-ramps and bridges that meet seismic standards seen from the Getty Center in Los Angeles Friday, May. 23, 2014. Los Angeles commuters who dealt with traffic tie-ups, lane re-routings and warnings over gridlock events dubbed "Carmageddon" and "Jamzilla" have been rewarded with a new 10-mile carpool lane on northbound Interstate 405. The 405 carries about 300,000 vehicles a day, a number that officials expect to grow by nearly 50 percent by 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Transit moves on the Interstate 405 seen from the Getty Center in Los Angeles Friday, May. 23, 2014. Los Angeles commuters who dealt with traffic tie-ups, lane re-routings and warnings over gridlock events dubbed "Carmageddon" and "Jamzilla" have been rewarded with a new 10-mile carpool lane on northbound Interstate 405. The 405 carries about 300,000 vehicles a day, a number that officials expect to grow by nearly 50 percent by 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Haze from smoke covers a highway in Anchorage, Alaska, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Residents in Anchorage woke up Thursday to a smokey haze and the smell of a campfire over the state's largest city. The smoke is from wildfires burning on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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Janay Rice, back left, looks on as her husband, Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, speaks during an NFL football news conference, Friday, May 23, 2014, at the team's practice facility in Owings Mills, Md. Ray Rice spoke to the media for the first time since his arrest for assaulting his fiance, now his wife, at a casino in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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George Lewis of Spring lake, left, speaks with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday May 23, 2014 on the Belmar N.J. beachfront. Christie said the Jersey shore is open for business and has made great strides recovering from Superstorm Sandy in Oct. 2012. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
