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The house in Bakersfield, Calif., where emergency personnel discovered the body of a woman that had died inside the chimney on Aug. 30, 2010. (AP photo/The Bakersfield Californian, Henry A. Barrios)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Federal police stand guard by Texas-born kingpin Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez during his presentation to the press in Mexico City on Tuesday. Valdez, who was captured on Monday by federal police, faces drug-trafficking charges in the U.S. and has been blamed for a vicious turf war that has included bodies hung from bridges and shootouts in central Mexico.

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Gen. David H. Petraeus speaks to the media in his office in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)

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Federal police stand guard by Texas-born kingpin Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias "the Barbie," center, during his presentation to the press in Mexico City, Tuesday Aug. 31, 2010. Mr. Valdez, who was captured on Monday by federal police, faces drug trafficking charges in the U.S. and has been blamed for a vicious turf war that has included bodies hung from bridges and shootouts in central Mexico. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

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A man is led off of a plane at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam on Monday. Two passengers were held in Amsterdam for questioning after security scanning revealed suspicious luggage. (Associated Press)

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Retired big-league pitching great Roger Clemens leaves federal court in Washington on Monday after pleading not guilty to charges of lying to Congress about whether he used steroids or human-growth hormone. (Associated Press)

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Luis Fredy Lala Pomavilla, an Ecuadorean citizen who survived a massacre that left 72 Central and South American migrants dead at a ranch 100 miles south of the U.S.-Mexican border, rests at a hospital in Matamoros on Aug. 24. He said the killers said they belonged to the Zetas drug cartel. (Associated Press)

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The abandoned warehouse in San Fernando in eastern Mexico where the 58 male and 14 female massacre victims were found is seen. (Associated Press)

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The bodies of the 58 male and 14 female massacre victims are seen inside the abandoned warehouse where they were found in San Fernando in eastern Mexico. They were migrants from Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador and Honduras trying to get to the United States. (Associated Press)

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Seven-time Cy Young winner, baseball pitcher Roger Clemens leaves federal court in Washington, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, after pleading not guilty to charges of lying to Congress about whether he used steroids or human growth hormone. His attorney Rusty Hardin is at left. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Supporters of National Council of Resistance of Iran in France protest the death sentence of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, at Trocadero square in Paris, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. Ms. Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

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** FILE ** In a Jan. 7, 2008, photo, Roger Clemens listens as his lawyer, Rusty Hardin, speaks at a press conference in Houston. Mr. Clemens, a seven-time Cy Young Award winner, pleaded not guilty on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, to charges of lying to Congress about whether he used steroids or human growth hormone. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

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A U.S. marshals and local police task force in Oklahama rounded up more than 160 Tulsa street-gang members last week during operation "Operation Triple Beam" in an initiative the government hopes will serve as a model for future operations. It reportedly involved at least 40 federal, state and local law enforcement officers. (Shane McCoy / U.S. Marshals Service)

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** FILE ** David Jakobsen (center), one of three men arrested in an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist plot in Norway, is led out of Oslo Municipal Court on Monday, July 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Scanpix, Erlend Aas, File)

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**FILE** A guard tower is seen behind the wire fence that surrounds California's Folsom State Prison, about 20 miles outside Sacramento. (Associated Press)

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FILE - This file photo released Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010 by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Paris Hilton in a police booking photo in Las Vegas. The district attorney in Las Vegas says Paris Hilton will avoid jail time on drug charges under the terms of a plea deal worked out with prosecutors, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

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FILE - This file photo made available Monday, June 4, 2007 by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office shows Paris Hilton after the 26-year-old heiress turned herself in to begin her stay at the Century Regional Detention Facility. Las Vegas Police say Paris Hilton was arrested Saturday Aug. 28, 2010 on cocaine charge in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff, File)

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Michael Enright sits in a New York City courtroom, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010, where he will face charges that include attempted murder as a hate crime. Mr. Enright is accused of slashing taxi driver Ahmed H. Sharif with a hand tool on Tuesday, Aug. 24, after the driver said he was Muslim. (AP Photo/Steven Hirsch, Pool)

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R&B singer Chris Brown appears for a progress report hearing in Los Angeles, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Brown pleaded guilty to assaulting his pop star girlfriend Rihanna in Hancock Park after a pre-Grammy Awards party in 2009. He was sentenced to five years probation, ordered to complete 180 days of community labor and a year of domestic violence counseling. (AP Photo/David McNew, Pool)

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In this Aug. 18, 2010 photo, technician Matt Casadonte checks lighting levels on prints from 19th Century American artist James McNeill Whistler during installation of the exhibition entitled "On Beauty and the Everyday: The Prints of James McNeill Whistler" at the University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)