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A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol drone aircraft is prepped prior to it's flight, Wednesday, Sept 24, 2014 at Ft. Huachuca in Sierra Vista, Ariz. The U.S. government now patrols nearly half the Mexican border by drones alone in a largely unheralded shift to control desolate stretches where there are no agents, camera towers, ground sensors or fences, and it plans to expand the strategy to the Canadian border. It represents a significant departure from a decades-old approach that emphasizes boots on the ground and fences. (AP Photo/Matt York) (AP)

AP Exclusive: Drones patrol half of Mexico border

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Family members of community leader Calisto Perez Mena react as they arrive near the place where he was killed in San Isidro, on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Another drug tunnel found

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“Unabomber” lawyer to represent Jared Lee Loughner

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This photo provided by Jorge Rivera aka "cimarron98" via Twitter shows structural damage to the Escomex business school building after an earthquake in Mexicali, Mexico, Sunday, April 4, 2010. The 7.2-magnitude quake struck at 3:40 p.m. in Baja California, Mexico, about 19 miles southeast of Mexicali, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. (AP Photo/Jorge Rivera) NO SALES. (AP)

Earthquake aftershocks shake Southern California

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This undated photo provided by the National Sex Offender Public web site shows John Albert Gardner. Authorities and volunteers are widening a search for a 17-year-old missing in San Diego County after Gardner was arrested in connection with her disappearance. (AP Photo/National Sex Offender Public web site) (AP)

Chelsea King suspect found through DNA

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Quake near Mexican border shakes San Diego area

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