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Milwaukee Brewers' Ryan Braun speaks Feb. 24, 2012, during a news conference at spring training in Phoenix. Braun's 50-game suspension was overturned the previous day by baseball arbitrator Shyam Das, the first time a baseball player successfully challenged a drug-related penalty in a grievance. (Associated Press)

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Police hold back crowds near the Florida Mall in Orlando, Fla., late Feb. 23, 2012, after more than 100 sheriff's deputies in riot gear broke up an out-of-control crowd waiting to buy a new Nike basketball shoe at one of the stores. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Thomas R. Carper, Delaware Democrat, is disappointed with the new $77 million computer system to detect Medicare fraud before money is paid out. (Associated Press)

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Maryland state Sen. Richard S. Madaleno Jr. (left) gets a hug from Maryland state Sen. Allan H. Kittleman after the Senate passed the Civil Marriage Protection Act in Annapolis on Thursday. "It's just a remarkable day for the people of the state of Maryland," said Mr. Madaleno, a Montgomery Democrat who is openly gay. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Maryland State Senator Richard Stuart Madaleno, Jr. (left), Montgomery Democrat, gets a hug from Allan H. Kittleman, Carroll/Howard Republican, after the Maryland State Senate passed the Civil Marriage Protection Act at the State House in Annapolis, Thursday, February 23, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Gabe Watson stands during a break in his capital murder trial at the Mel Bailey Criminal Justice Center in Birmingham, Ala. An Alabama judge acquitted Mr. Watson, accused of drowning his newlywed wife during a honeymoon diving trip to Australia. (Associated Press)

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Gabe Watson (left) stands during a break in his capital murder trial at the Mel Bailey Criminal Justice Center in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Birmingham News, Tamika Moore)

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Emergency personnel throw burned items out of a window at the scene of a fatal fire in South Plainfield, N.J., on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. The blaze killed five people and injured four others. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Shawn Weimer, who allowed his 9-year-old daughter to drive him around because he had been drinking, stands for sentencing in a Detroit court on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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Pakistani volunteers help an injured boy Feb. 23, 2012, as he arrives at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan. A powerful car bomb ripped through an outdoor minibus terminal, killing and wounding many people, including women and children, officials said. (Associated Press)

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Joyce Hardin Garrard (left), 46, and Jessica Mae Hardin, 27, the grandmother and stepmother of a 9-year-old Alabama girl who died after witnesses said she was forced to run for three hours as punishment for lying, have been charged with murder and are being held in jail. (Associated Press/Etowah County Sheriff's Office)

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This undated photo released Feb. 22, 2012, by the Etowah County Sheriff's Office shows 9-year-old Savannah Hardin, who authorities said died after being forced to run without stopping for three hours by her grandmother and stepmother as punishment. (Associated Press/Etowah County Sheriff's Office)

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Anti-Syrian-regime protesters hold up Kurdish flags during a rally in the northeastern town of Qamishli, Syria, on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, in this image taken by a citizen journalist. (AP Photo/Local Coordination Committees in Syria)

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Dozens of job seekers line up to enter a National Career Fair on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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George Huguely V , left, is escorted into the Charlottesville Circuit courthouse in Charlottesville, Va., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. The jury found him guilty of second-degree murder and grand larceny. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Indianapolis Colts cut ties with quarterback Peyton Manning on Wednesday. Where will he land next? (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

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Prices for three grades of gasoline are posted Feb. 22, 2012, in front of a service station in Bellevue, Wash. (Associated Press)

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Country music singer-composer Roger Miller died in 1992. An appeals court has ruled against his widow in a case involving the rights to his music. (Associated Press)

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Mideast Egypt Mubarak_Lea.jpg

** FILE ** Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is wheeled into a courthouse in Cairo on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammed al-Law, File)

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**FILE** Firefighters battle a blaze from a shake-and-bake meth lab explosion, in Union, Mo., on Jan. 29, 2010. (Associated Press/Franklin County Sheriff's Department)