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Bristre Clayton, of Las Vegas, holds a sign outside a courthouse Sept. 27, 2011, in Los Angeles during the trial of Conrad Murray, a doctor charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of pop icon Michael Jackson. (Associated Press)
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Amanda Knox (right), the American student convicted of killing her British roommate, is escorted to court for a hearing in her appeals case in Perugia, Italy, on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)
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Teresa Richardson talks on Monday, Sept. 26, 2011, with an Indiana State Police trooper at the entrance to the home of her former brother-in-law, Roy Napier, where four people were found dead Sunday near Laurel, Ind., in rural Franklin County. A fifth person was found dead across the road. (AP Photo/A.J. Mast)
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Passengers walk out from a subway tunnel after leaving trains involved in a collision in Shanghai on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. (AP Photo)
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Rep. John Kline, Minnesota Republican, called the waiver approach to overhauling the No Child Left Behind law "a dangerous precedent." (Associated Press)
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The Washington Nationals will play the Florida Marlins in their last series at Sun Life Stadium. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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Authorities escort Amanda Knox (center) to court in Perugia, Italy, on Monday, Sept. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)
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** FILE ** Sarah Shourd (left), Shane Bauer (center) and Josh Fattal stand together after a news conference in New York on Sept. 25, 2011. Fattal and Bauer, both 29, were held for more than two years in an Iranian prison before being freed last week under a $1 million bail deal. Fellow hiker Shourd was released from the prison last year. (Associated Press)
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On Monday, Sept. 26, 2011, a police officer sits in an unmarked car at the entrance to the site near Laurel, Ind., in rural Franklin County where five people were found dead. (AP Photo/A.J. Mast)
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Virginia state Senate candidate Shawn Mitchell works the phones in his Modern Mechanical office in Ashburn, Va. A candidate in the newly drawn District 13 in Prince William and Loudoun counties, Mr. Mitchell recently settled a messy legal dispute with a former employer. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Erin Fox, manager of the Drug Information Service at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, stands by a board listing drugs in short supply. "The shortages aren't resolving. They're piling up on top of existing ones," she said. (Associated Press)
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Temple running back Bernard Pierce had five touchdowns in Temple's 38-7 win against Maryland. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Robert Ward, left, and his daughter Mallory, wait as the jury in the Wards' murder trial returns to court for a second day of deliberations Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011. Ward, a millionaire developer, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of his wife Diane, who was shot in the bedroom of their Isleworth mansion in 2009. (AP Photo/Pool, Red Huber)
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Arizona Diamondbacks' J.J. Putz, left, Chris Young, and Henry Blanco celebrate in the team'S locker room after an MLB baseball game against the San Francisco Giants, Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, in Phoenix. The Diamondbacks defeated the Giants 3-1 and won the 2011 National League West Champions title. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Washington Nationals starting pitcher Brad Peacock is greeted by teammates in the dugout after being pulled in the sixth inning against the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011, in Philadelphia. Washington won 6-1 and Peacock tossed 5 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing one hit, striking out two and walking two. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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Maryland Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot on Thursday announces indictments in several cigarette-smuggling cases. Flanking him in Upper Marlboro are Assistant State's Attorney Doyle Niemann and Prince George's County State's Attorney Angela D. Alsobrooks. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Rookie center Cody Eakin, though offensively gifted, could fit in nicely on the penalty-killing unit should he be included on the Capitals' opening-night roster. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Minister Lynn Hopkins (left) comforts her partner Carolyn Bond in Jackson, Ga., on Sept. 21, 2011, after hearing that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute plea of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis. Davis, who was convicted of killing off-duty Savannah officer Mark MacPhail in 1989, was executed later that night. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Kweku Adoboli arrives for a hearing in City of London Magistrates' Court in London on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011. He is accused of fraud and two charges of false accounting over three years at Swiss banking giant UBS. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)
