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Hocking County Sheriff Lanny North talks to reporters late Monday night, Jan. 9, 2012, after a family dispute ended when a man apparently shot and killed his wife's two sisters and his son before fatally shooting himself in Logan, Ohio. (AP Photo/The Eagle-Gazette, Jess Lanning)
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In a video image made from Iran's IRIB-TV, U.S. citizen Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, accused by Iran of spying for the CIA, sits in Tehran's revolutionary court. An Iranian court has convicted Mr. Hekmati and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday. Mr. Hekmati is of Iranian descent and a former Marine. (Associated Press)
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Syracuse's Dion Waiters drives against Marquette during the second half in Syracuse, N.Y., Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)
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Sami Osmakac, 25, has been charged in an alleged plot to attack crowded locations in the Tampa, Fla., area, according to federal officials. (AP Photo/Hillsborough County, Fla., Sheriff's Office)
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Mock candidate Vermin Supreme guides Rep. Ron Paul's car out of the parking lot after a visit to a restaurant in Manchester, N.H., on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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** FILE ** U.S. citizen Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, convicted by Iran of spying for the CIA, is pictured on a video frame grab image made from the Iranian broadcaster IRIB TV on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/IRIB)
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Embattled D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr., 51, speaks to the press, where he pled guilty before District Judge John D. Bates in U.S. District Court for the District, in Washington D.C., to stealing $353,000 from youth baseball programs from April 2007 to February 2009 and failing to report a total of $346,00 in additional income on three successive tax returns, Friday, January 6, 2012. It was the first time a sitting D.C. council member has been charged with a felony. Mr. Thomas resigned from office on Thursday Evening. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)
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This dog named Roscoe was, according to PETA, denied treatment for a skin condition at Angel's Gate Hospice for Animals in New York. Hospice founder Susan Marino is facing five cruelty charges. (PETA via Associated Press)
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Juliet Steer's grave is located in an interfaith area of the Congregation Ahavath Achim cemetery in Colchester, Conn. A lawsuit alleges the congregation broke its own rule against burials of non-Jews and is seeking to have Steer's remains exhumed and moved. (Associated Press)
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Ward 5 resident Zachary Sims, outside the U.S. District Courthouse on Friday where former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr. pleaded guilty to tax fraud and stealing city funds (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)
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This Dec. 20, 2011 photo shows the exterior of the El Cuervo Bar in Huron, S.D., where police say 34-year-old Werner Fajardo plied minors with alcohol and sexually assaulted three girls. South Dakota police say Fajardo exploited an outdated ordinance that allowed 18- to 21-year-olds in an establishment serving alcohol if it was designated as a dance hall. Fajardo has been charged with six counts of rape and several counts of providing alcohol to minors at his El Cuervo bar in Huron. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. (AP Photo/Kristi Eaton)
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Former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr., 51, and his family exit the U.S. District Courthouse in D.C., on Jan. 6, 2012, after Thomas pleaded guilty to felony counts of stealing more than $350,000 in taxpayer funds and failing to report income on his tax returns. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)
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Former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr., 51, speaks with reporters Jan. 6, 2012, outside the U.S. District Courthouse in D.C., after pleading guilty to felony counts of stealing more than $350,000 in taxpayer funds and failing to report income on his tax returns. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)
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**FILE** Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. (left) has his tie adjusted by his manager Leonard Ellerbe on Dec. 21, 2011, while waiting for sentencing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas. Mayweather was sentenced to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to reduced battery domestic violence and harassment charges. (Associated Press)
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Joran Van der Sloot attends his murder trial Jan. 6, 2012, held at the San Jorge prison in Lima, Peru. Van der Sloot, 24, stands trial for the 2010 murder of Stephany Flores, 21, of Peru, nearly seven years after he became the prime suspect in the unsolved disappearance of an American teenager on holiday in Aruba. (Associated Press)
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"We've got to stop the culture of underage drinking," Montgomery County State's Attorney John McCarthy said Thursday after the sentencing of Kevin Coffay, 20, of Rockville, who pleaded guilty to three counts of vehicular manslaughter and one count of fleeing the scene of an accident. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Patrick Hoover (left) shakes hands with a Montgomery County sheriff's officer on his way out of Maryland Circuit Court in Rockville on Thursday after the sentencing hearing for the driver in a May 15 crash that killed Mr. Hoover's son John, 20, and two other young people. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was indicted Thursday on corruption charges for allegedly seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this file photo from Dec. 5, 2011, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio discusses the latest in the document release on his office's handling of many sexual assault cases over the years in El Mirage, Ariz., during a news conference in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Police officers and emergency crew are seen Jan. 4, 2012, near 3268 Jackson Street in Ogden, Utah, where 6 police officers were shot, including those from the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force and the Ogden Police Department, while serving a warrant. The suspect was also shot. (Associated Press/Standard-Examiner)
