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FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2013 file photo, former St. Clair County Judge Michael Cook walks past reporters outside U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, Ill. Cook, a former judge at the center of a courthouse drug scandal involving the cocaine death of a prosecutor-turned-judge is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 26, 2014, in East St. Louis, where he pleaded guilty in November to heroin and gun charges. (AP Photo/Belleville News-Democrat, Derik Holtmann, File)
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Israeli soldiers take a break at their position near the border with Syria in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Hezbollah says Israel carried out an airstrike targeting its positions in Lebanon near the border with Syria earlier this week, claiming it caused damage but no casualties. The Wednesday statement was the group's first acknowledgement of the reported Monday night airstrikes. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
