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The wind buffets senior scholars during the 2013 Shadow Hills High School commencement ceremony on Thursday.

Two schools' graduates celebrate

Eager students seemed dazed by it all as they took to the football field, while families crowded out each other to snap photos of loved ones and friends filled in the gaps — if only to call out a name here and there.  | Photo Gallery

  1. Suzette Krause Schmidt, the biological aunt and adoptive parent of Suresh Abayasekara Krause, looks at a plaque honoring Krause at Cathedral City High School. Suresh, who graduated from the school in 2001, enlisted in the U.S. Army and died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan in 2012.

    CCHS honors fallen soldier

    • 2:07 PM

    Cathedral City High School dedicated a plaque Friday in honor of former student Suresh Krause, a soldier who was killed in Afghanistan last year.

  1. Jodi Arias listens as the verdict for sentencing is read for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Ariz., on Thursday, May 23, 2013. The jury in Jodi Arias' trial was dismissed Thursday after failing to reach a unanimous decision on whether the woman they convicted of murdering her one-time boyfriend should be sentenced to life or death in a case that has captured headlines worldwide with its sex, lies, violence. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace, Pool)

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  2. The corn field thats part of Prime Time Dafco Ranch, located on the Southwest corner of 50th Ave and Fillmore St. in Coachella were locals say the dead body Riverside County deputies investigated on Wednesday was found. (Richard Lui The Desert Sun)

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