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In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 photo, Amber Skiles, a contractor with the Environmental Protection Agency labels water samples from the Dan River as state and federal environmental officials continued their investigations of a spill of coal ash in Eden, N.C. Over the last year, environmental groups have tried three times to use the federal Clean Water Act to force Duke Energy to clear out leaky coal ash dumps. Each time, the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources has effectively halted the lawsuit by intervening at the last minute to assert its own authority to take enforcement action. In two cases, the state has proposed modest fines but no requirement that the nation’s largest electricity provider actually clean up the coal ash ponds. The third case is pending. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 photo, Don Ryce, the father of Jimmy Ryce, talks to a reporter during an interview in Miami. Juan Carlos Chavez, 46, who kidnapped, raped and murdered 9-year-old Jimmy Ryce on his way home from school almost 20 years ago is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 photo, Don Ryce, the father of Jimmy Ryce, talks to a reporter during an interview in Miami. Juan Carlos Chavez, 46, who kidnapped, raped and murdered 9-year-old Jimmy Ryce on his way home from school almost 20 years ago is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, FEB. 9, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - In this July 27, 2012 photo, a chair sits in the front lawn of Winchester Star reporter Sarah Greenhalgh's house, where she was discovered dead in her burning home on Dunvegan Drive in Upperville, Va. on July 9, 2012. The nearly 19-month-old case is one of seven unsolved homicides being cited in Fauquier County in a joint request from the commonwealth's attorney and sheriff's offices for $600,000 to continue "a new robust method of investigation." (AP Photo/The Winchester Star, Jeff Taylor) MANDATORY CREDIT
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Phoenix Suns' Goran Dragic, of Slovenia, shouts in celebration after making a 3-point shot against the Golden State Warriors during the second half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014, in Phoenix. The Suns won 122-109. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
