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Greivis Vasquez and the Maryland Terrapins are heading to the NCAA basketball tournament as a No. 4 seed. (AP file photo) **FILE**

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**FILE** Grenades allegedly belonging to soldiers who were killed by rebels sit on the ground in Corinto in southern Colombia in November. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Colombian army soldiers unload supplies from a helicopter during a February operation to relieve troops in Alto Guaduas, Caqueta state, in southern Colombia, a region with a strong presence of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PRESSING THE FLESH: Pat Meehan, a one-time U.S. prosecutor, is one of the National Republican Congressional Committee's designated "Young Guns" - the NRCC's premier recruits. He is running for the House seat in Pennsylvania's 7th District, a swing district in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

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FILE PHOTOAssociated Press. Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York (left) and fellow Democrat Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland are pressing ahead with plans for legislation to counteract the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, which invalidated some federal campaign-finance laws.

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** FILE ** Secretary of State James Baker speaks at a State Department press conference concerning U.S. troop movements in Panama, Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1989. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)

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Demonstrators for and against same-sex marriage protest during a rally in front of a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010. The first federal trial to determine if the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from outlawing same-sex marriage gets under way in San Francisco on Monday, and the two gay couples on whose behalf the case was brought will be among the first witnesses. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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Graduates of the seminary program at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola officiate the prison's 18 inmate churches and do one-on-one ministry and grief counseling. Some graduates act as missionaries in eight satellite prisons in the state. Jan. 6, 2010 (Associated Press FILE)

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Disbarred Florida lawyer Scott Rothstein (left) and financier Allen Stanford have both pleaded not guilty to massive investment scams in 2009.

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This syringe detonator was used in a failed plot to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab reportedly told his FBI interrogators that "this is just the beginning." (ABC News)

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associated press From left, Wicomico County prosecutor Davis Ruark, Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis and Maryland State Police Detective Sgt. David Owens hold a news conference Monday asking for help in the death of Sarah Haley Foxwell.

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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is being held in the thwarted attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane. (Associated Press/Saharareporters.com)

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Richard and Mayumi Heene arrive at court for sentencing in Fort Collins, Colo., in connection to charges that they carried out the balloon-boy hoax in October to gain a reality TV show. (Associated Press)

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Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett on Tuesday in Harrisburg, Pa., names more defendants in the state's expanding investigation of legislative corruption. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** A police officer patrols a parking lot in Montgomery County. (Photo provided by the Montgomery County Police Department)

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A Gallaudet University student looks on as his dogs greet a visitor to his apartment on West Virginia Avenue across the street from the university in the District. (The Washington Times) **FILE**

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Lab technician Heather Bickley tests samples for H1N1 flu at the Arizona State Health Laboratory in Phoenix. With Arizona among at least 11 states where swine flu is already widespread, state health officials are working harder to detect cases of illness. (Associated Press)