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Prince George's County police officers hand out wanted fliers to members of the media for Kevon Darnell Neal, 23, of Fort Washington, wanted in connection to an auto theft which led to Police Officer Adrian Morris' death Monday night, Palmer Park, Md., Wednesday, August 22, 2012. Police have already arrested Kenneth Clark Mitchell, 25, of the District in connection with the incident. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office and taken on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, leads prayer, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)
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Timothy Lewis, defense lawyer for former Penn State President Graham Spanier, speaks during a news conference Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012, in Philadelphia. Spanier is attacking the university-sanctioned report on the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal, calling it a "blundering and indefensible indictment" of his client. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Chris Mahlangu, right, is led away from the court in Ventersdorp, South Africa, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012, after receiving a life sentence for the murder of Eugene TerreBlanche. (AP Photo)
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In a Dec. 12, 1999 photo, Nebraska's Charlie Rogers (33), guards Creighton's Corey Sweeney (22) during a women's basketball match in Lincoln, Neb. Rogers, who told police she was the victim of a vicious hate crime in July, 2012, was charged with making a false report Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 and pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge. Authorities issued an arrest warrant for Rogers Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Lincoln Journal Star, William Lauer)
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Anne Winters Carter (right) comforts her daughter, Teresa Carter, at a vigil for their grandson and son, Chavis Carter, in Memphis, Tenn., on Monday. Chavis Carter, a man police say fatally shot himself in the head while his hands were cuffed behind him in the back of an Arkansas patrol car, tested positive for anti-anxiety medication, according to an autopsy report released Monday that listed his death as a suicide.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney General Tom Perez announces a civil rights unit to be based in Birmingham, Ala., on Tuesday. The unit will be responsible for prosecutions and lawsuits. (Associated Press)
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A policeman tries to detain a masked supporter of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot inside the Turkish embassy near the court in Moscow on Aug. 17, 2012. A Moscow judge sentenced each of three members of the band to two years in prison on hooliganism charges following a trial that has drawn international outrage as an emblem of Russia's intolerance to dissent. (Associated Press)
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Suzanne Meredith of Walpole, Mass., gases up her car at a Gulf station in Brookline, Mass., on Tuesday, July 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
