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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)

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Security was beefed up Wednesday at the Georgia prison where death-row inmate Troy Davis was scheduled to be executed Wednesday night. Davis, who has always maintained his innocence, has been on death row since 1991. The crowd outside the prison swelled to more than 500 as night fell. (Associated Press)

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Anti-death penalty protesters Wednesday chant "Let Troy Go" for Davis in Jackson, Ga. Davis, 42, was convicted in the 1989 killing of an off-duty police officer in Savannah. His last-minute offer to take a polygraph test was rejected. (Associated Press)

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A sign at Josh Fattal's former high school in Wyncote, Pa., announces his and fellow American Shane Bauer's release from a Tehran prison on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, after more than two years in custody. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Students at Josh Fattal's former high school sign a banner on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, in Wyncote, Pa. Fellow American Shane Bauer and Mr. Fattal, jailed in Iran for two years on charges of spying, were released from a Tehran prison on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Nancy Campeau, an employee of Sprouts Hometown Market & Gifts in Pine City, Minn., adjusts a display after adding a sign in support of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. Store owner C.J. Gustafson watched the news of the Americans' release from an Iranian prison all morning with candles lit. Mr. Bauer's mother, Cindy Hickey, lives in Pine City. (AP Photo/The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Courtney Perry)

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Syracuse (in white) and Maryland will present an enticing matchup when the Orange's lacrosse program officially becomes part of the ACC. (Associated Press)

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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gestures during an interview with the Associated Press on Sept. 21, 2011, in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Shelley Serdahely, of Roswell, Ga., joins hundreds of protesters on Sept. 20, 2011, at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta against the execution of Troy Anthony Davis, who was convicted of murdering an off-duty Savannah police officer in 1989. (Associated Press/Atlanta Journal & Constitution)

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** FILE ** Lawrence Russell Brewer listens to the guilty verdict in his capital murder trial at the Brazos County Courthouse in Bryan, Texas, in September 1999. (AP Photo/Butch Ireland, Pool)

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Saul Solis Solis, right, and Mario Alberto Gordillo, alleged members of Mexico's Knights Templar drug cartel, are escorted by soldiers upon their presentation to the media in Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. Solis Solis, a former police chief and one-time congressional candidate, and Gordillo were captured Monday in the cartel's home state of Michoacan, Mexico. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

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associated press With his strong performances down the stretch, Nationals starter Tommy Milone continues to make a case for being included in Washington's much-talked-about 2012 rotation.

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associated press With his strong performances down the stretch, Nationals starter Tommy Milone continues to make a case for being included in Washington's much-talked-about 2012 rotation.

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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II wants to deputize members of the state's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit so they can serve subpoenas and carry a weapon. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Georgia's pardons board Tuesday rejected clemency for cop killer Troy Davis, convicted of shooting Officer Mark MacPhail in 1989. He is scheduled to die by injection Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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A young Indian girl who was injured in a building collapse that followed a magnitude-6.9 earthquake is treated at a hospital in Siliguri, India, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)