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A resident who did not want to give his name, searches through the rubble of his mobile home in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park, destroyed by Sunday's tornado, near Shawnee, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. The tornado that slammed into Oklahoma on Sunday is now blamed for two deaths. Authorities say two men in their 70s have been found dead in or near a mobile home park outside of Shawnee. (AP Photo Sue Ogrocki)
Massive tornado roars through Oklahoma City suburbMassive tornado roars through Oklahoma City suburb, leaves neighborhoods in ruins
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Panel: Apple uses firms outside US to avoid taxesApple uses companies outside US to avoid paying billions in US taxes, Senate inquiry finds
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IG: ex-US Attorney retaliated in Fast and FuriousIG: ex-US Attorney violated department policy with news leak in Fast and Furious probe
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FILE - In this Tuesday, May 7, 2013, photo, specialist Charles Boeddinghaus works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push world stock markets higher Monday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Small company stock are a bright spotSmall company stocks are a bright spot as Russell 2000 index climbs above 1,000 for first time
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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney gestures as he speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, May, 20, 2013. Carney spoke on various subjects including the recent scandals involving the IRS and Justice Department. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
More Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not toldCircle of White House advisers who knew of IRS probe widens; officials say Obama wasn't told
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Sports seem OK for many with heart-zapping deviceStudy of athletes who play despite heart-zapping device suggests intense activity OK for some
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GOP leaders say impeachment talk prematureRNC chairman on impeachment: 'There's a few chapters before we get to the last one'
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FBI agents killed in Va. training were among eliteFBI agents killed in training off Va. coast were on elite team trained in military tactics
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FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2007 file photo, former Doors band members Ray Manzarek, right, and Robby Krieger display the stars they received on the Walk of Fame in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Manzarek, the keyboardist for the Doors has died at 74. Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says in a news release that Manzarek died Monday, May 20, 2013, at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
Publicist: Founding member of The Doors dies at 74Publicist: Ray Manzarek, founding member of The Doors, dies at 74 from cancer
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Judge Sherry Stephens denies the request from Jodi Arias' defense attorneys Jennifer Wilmott and Kirk Nurmi to withdraw from the case on Monday, May 20, 2013 during the penalty phase of Arias' murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Ariz. Arias was convicted May 8, 2013 of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool)
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A wrecked truck is removed from the site of a car bomb attack in front of a crowded popular restaurant in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. Two car bombings in the southern city of Basra, killing and wounding dozens of people, police said. Iraq has seen a spike of attacks, including bombings hitting both Sunni and Shiite civilian targets over the last week. (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)
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FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2010 file photo White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. It might have seemed a no-win situation to the White House: either keep President Barack Obama in the dark about a looming investigation into political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service or blur legal lines by telling him about an independent audit. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2007 file photo, former Doors band members Ray Manzarek, right, and Robby Krieger display the stars they received on the Walk of Fame in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Manzarek, the keyboardist for the Doors has died at 74. Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says in a news release that Manzarek died Monday, May 20, 2013, at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, May 7, 2013, photo, specialist Charles Boeddinghaus works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push world stock markets higher Monday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Miami Heat's Chris Bosh (1) drives to the basket as Chicago Bulls' Jimmy Butler, right, defends during the first half of Game 5 of an NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinal, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 in Miami. At left is Bulls' Carlos Boozer. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

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  • MWAA Police Officer Shot, Wife Charged

    The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office has identified the victim of Friday night shooting in Sterling as Steven Spradling, 52, a member of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department. Patch.com, Sun, May 19 2013 @ 11:53 PM

  • Spring cleaning advice for Loudoun residents

    It's that time of year. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, the air is clear, and your house is a a little funky. Loudoun Times, Mon, May 20 2013 @ 12:32 AM

  • LCSO Investigating 'Apparent Homicide' in Sterling

    The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office is investigating what the department has referred to as an "apparent homicide" on the 21700 block of Blossom Drive in Sterling. Patch.com, Sat, May 18 2013 @ 06:54 PM

  • Two Leesburg Residents Displaced by Townhouse Fire

    Two Leesburg residents will have to find a temporary home after a Tuesday morning fire caused an estimated $55,000 damage to their townhouse on Vanderbilt Terrace in Leesburg. Patch.com, Tue, May 14 2013 @ 04:00 PM

  • Loudoun County's Confederate statue creates controversy

    A proposal by a Leesburg attorney to remove a statue honoring Confederate soldiers from the property of Loudoun County's courthouse is causing a stir. TBD.com, Wed, May 15 2013 @ 11:45 PM
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On May 20, 1927,

Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France.

In 1712,

the original version of Alexander Pope's satirical mock-heroic poem "The Rape of the Lock" was published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany.

In 1862,

President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, which was intended to encourage settlements west of the Mississippi River by making federal land available for farming.

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Ap Top NewsSeoul: Day 3 of NKorea tests of short-range weaponA mock Scud-B missile of North Korea, right, and other South Korean missiles are displayed at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, May 19, 2013. North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area, officials said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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