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• May 15, 2008: A Los Angeles City fire helicopter makes a water drop on a brush fire near the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
• May 15, 2008: The newest addition to the bison herd at the Bison Wildlife Area north of Frontenac, Kan., stays close to its mother.
• The Space Needle Gets a Shower: Karcher cleaning team tackles dirt in the dead of night at Seattle's Space Needle.
• May 15, 2008: A small bug hitches a slow motion ride on a garden snail on a walkway in front of a house in Cottage Grove, Ore.
• May 15, 2008: Fans wear Marge Simpsons wigs at the opening of 'The Simpsons Ride' at Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Fla.
• May 15, 2008: Domestic partners Davis Osterkamp, left, and Larry Martinez kiss near a Castro District street car in San Francisco, Calif. while celebrating the California Supreme Court decision to overturn a ban on same-sex marriage.
• May 17, 2008: Northern Illinois University President John Peters, left, bows his head during a moment of silence to remember those killed during the Feb. 14 shootings on the NIU campus at the start of the last of three commencement exercises.
• May 17, 2008: A Los Angeles police officer places the handcuffed suspect into a police cruiser in the Granada Hills area of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. Gunfire rang out on a grassy field where a festival was being set up at St. John Baptist de la Salle Roman Catholic parish shortly before 11 a.m., said police Capt. Steven Ruiz.
• May 17, 2008: Workers spread lime to neutralize the spill around the rain cars that are derailed in Lafayette, La. The derailment forced the evacuation of about three thousand people.