University of Wyoming officer Avery Cowardin drives through the married student's housing area during patrol on Wednesday afternoon in Laramie. Cowardin has been a UW police officer for 9 years. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune
Traders work the oil futures pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange, Thursday, July 13, 2006. Oil prices shot up to a new high, roiling stocks on Wall Street, as hostilities in the Middle East escalated. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
A biker rides by the Legion Lake Resort outside of Custer, S.D. Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006, where a biker gang related shooting occured Tuesday. Two men have been arrested and charged with five counts each of attempted murder for a Tuesday afternoon gunfight in Custer State Park that seriously injured six people affiliated with the Outlaws motorcycle gang. (AP Photo/Doug Dreyer)
Father Bob Gettinger, second right, leads a prayer for those killed by gun violence and for the safety of the community as people gather in St. Louis, Mo. on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, one of among more than 20 other U.S. cities participating the National Day of Outrage, a nationwide call to end violence in urban communities. (AP Photo/Boza Ivanovic)
An Iraqi police officer allows a heavily loaded car to pass a checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq over the past year, but politicians and security officials have warned in recent weeks of a possible spike in violence in the run-up to the national polls as insurgents look to undermine the government and destabilize the country.(AP Photo / Karim Kadim)
An Iraqi policeman uses a scanner device to inspect a taxi at checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq over the past year, but politicians and security officials have warned in recent weeks of a possible spike in violence in the run-up to the national polls as insurgents look to undermine the government and destabilize the country.(AP Photo / Karim Kadim)
An Iraqi police officer allows a heavily loaded car to pass a checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq over the past year, but politicians and security officials have warned in recent weeks of a possible spike in violence in the run-up to the national polls as insurgents look to undermine the government and destabilize the country.(AP Photo / Karim Kadim)
An Iraqi policeman uses a scanner device to inspect a taxi at checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq over the past year, but politicians and security officials have warned in recent weeks of a possible spike in violence in the run-up to the national polls as insurgents look to undermine the government and destabilize the country.(AP Photo / Karim Kadim)
An Iraqi police officer allows a heavily loaded car to pass a checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq over the past year, but politicians and security officials have warned in recent weeks of a possible spike in violence in the run-up to the national polls as insurgents look to undermine the government and destabilize the country.(AP Photo / Karim Kadim)
An Iraqi policeman uses a scanner device to inspect a taxi at checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq over the past year, but politicians and security officials have warned in recent weeks of a possible spike in violence in the run-up to the national polls as insurgents look to undermine the government and destabilize the country.(AP Photo / Karim Kadim)
An Iraqi police officer allows a heavily loaded car to pass a checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq over the past year, but politicians and security officials have warned in recent weeks of a possible spike in violence in the run-up to the national polls as insurgents look to undermine the government and destabilize the country.(AP Photo / Karim Kadim)
An Iraqi policeman uses a scanner device to inspect a taxi at checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq over the past year, but politicians and security officials have warned in recent weeks of a possible spike in violence in the run-up to the national polls as insurgents look to undermine the government and destabilize the country.(AP Photo / Karim Kadim)
An Iraqi police officer allows a heavily loaded car to pass a checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq over the past year, but politicians and security officials have warned in recent weeks of a possible spike in violence in the run-up to the national polls as insurgents look to undermine the government and destabilize the country.(AP Photo / Karim Kadim)
An Iraqi policeman uses a scanner device to inspect a taxi at checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq over the past year, but politicians and security officials have warned in recent weeks of a possible spike in violence in the run-up to the national polls as insurgents look to undermine the government and destabilize the country.(AP Photo / Karim Kadim)
An Iraqi police officer allows a heavily loaded car to pass a checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq over the past year, but politicians and security officials have warned in recent weeks of a possible spike in violence in the run-up to the national polls as insurgents look to undermine the government and destabilize the country.(AP Photo / Karim Kadim)
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