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May 18, 2013 - Chiawana High School students representing the dead sit on stage Friday during an "Every 15 Minutes" assembly. Students played the roles of victims of a drunken driving car wreck, complete with police, firefighters and the coroner arriving on the scene. The event is designed to show students the deadly consequences of underage drinking and drunken driving.

Week in Photos - May 12-18, 2013

Check out these photos from the Tri-City Herald for the week of May 12-18, 2013.

Political prisoner returns to family after 16 years

Khin Mar, left, and her husband Myo Aung Thant laugh on Friday with their grandson Daniel Thant, 3, at dinner after Myo Aung Thant arrived from the airport. He was a political prisoner from 1997-2011 in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma).

Imprisoned in his native Burma for his pro-democracy and labor rights activism, Myo Aung Thant hadn't seen his family in person for about 16 years. But on Friday night, the 57-year-old walked off a plane at the Tri-Cities Airport in Pasco and back...

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