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Photos for September 24, 2005
Cleveland's Travis Hafner, right, and Jhonny Peralta celebrate Hafner's two-run home run in the third inning. The Indians won, 7-6, Friday in Kansas City, Mo.
Iowa State's Austin Flynn holds up the ball while Army's Caleb Campbell, left, sits in the end zone. The Cyclones beat the Cadets, 28-21, Friday in West Point, N.Y.
Chicago White Sox outfielder Jermaine Dye, right, celebrates his home run against Minnesota with teammates Scott Podsednik and Paul Konerko, partially obscured. The White Sox beat the Twins, 3-1, Friday in Chicago.
The Jersey Shore chapter of Christian Surfers gathers for sun, surf and gospel at Ocean Grove, N.J., a Methodist beach enclave.
Clarence Darrow, left, and William Jennings Bryan sit beside each other at the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tenn., in this 1925 file photo. Darrow was one of three lawyers sent to Dayton by the American Civil Liberties Union to defend John T. Scopes, a biology teacher, in his test of Tennessee's law banning the teaching of evolution. Bryan testified for the prosecution as a Bible expert.
Tanker driver Bob Partlow, 60, of Antioch, Texas, pumps diesel fuel into storage tanks Friday at Griffin Oil Co. in Center, Texas. Partlow had been delivering fuel in eastern Texas since late Thursday night as fuel supplies ran short under strain from Texans fleeing Hurricane Rita.
Students, left to right, Adam Garge, of Dover, N.H., Laura Kaplan, of Orangeburg, N.Y., and Sue Madden, of Reading, Mass., work during Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Shawn Lawson's Animation I class Sept. 13 at RPI in Troy, N.Y.
International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei, left, talks with a member of the board of governors representing South Africa, Abdul Samad Minty, center, and Iran's permanent representative to the UN in Vienna, Mohammad Mehdi Akhondzadeh, before an IAEA board of governors meeting Friday in Vienna, Austria.
Smoke rises after an explosion during a demonstration Friday by the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip. A pickup truck carrying masked militants blew up at a Hamas rally on Friday, killing at least seven Palestinians and wounding 45, Hamas activists said. Witnesses said the truck carried homemade weapons.
U.S. Army Pfc. Lynndie R. England leaves the courthouse following a day of proceedings in her court-martial Friday in Fort Hood, Texas. A West Virginia school psychologist said Friday that he realized he had failed Lynndie England when he saw the Army private posing in prisoner abuse photos at Abu Ghraib.
First-grader Jonah Stiel cheers Friday during a school assembly during which Hyman Brand Jewish Academy, in Overland Park, was named a 2005 No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School.
First-grader Libby LeGard reads the temperature of the air on Thursday to compare it later to the temperature of water samples taken from local creeks during a Girl Scout workshop to learn about water quality in Prairie Village.
Firefighters work to cover the bodies of those who died early Friday morning when the bus they were traveling in caught fire in the northbound lanes of Interstate 45 in Wilmer, Texas. The bus, carrying nursing home residents fleeing from Hurricane Rita, caught fire and was rocked by explosions, killing as many as 24 people, authorities said.
An Iraqi man covers his face approaching a burning minibus at the scene of a suicide bombing Friday in Baghdad, Iraq. A suicide bomber riding on a small public bus set off hidden explosives in a bustling open-air bus terminal Friday, the Muslim day of worship, killing at least five people and wounding eight, police said.
Sir McCoy, 21 months, of Wichita, pulls a soccer ball from the net as he plays on the field during Friday's half time as Hutchinson Community College played Butler Community College in Hutchinson.
President Bush attends a briefing on Hurricane Rita on Friday at FEMA headquarters in Washington. Federal response to Hurricane Katrina has had the Bush administration slipping in approval ratings.
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Col. Jerry Durrant celebrates his retirement with his wife, Cheryl Johnson Durrant, after 35 years with the U.S. Marines, which included a six-month deployment in Iraq. He retired May 13 in Twentynine Palms, Calif. Jerry and Cheryl are both 1968 graduates of Lawrence High School. Jerry's mother, Mable Durrant, lives in Lawrence, as well as Cheryl's mother, Vivian Johnson, who submitted the picture.
Albert Guana, left, and Ted Wiley, center, winners of the Cottonwood Mini Masters, and Larry Trowbridge, of Midwest Exterminators, celebrate after the round of miniature golf at Twin Oaks Golf Complex. Midwest Exterminators was the T-shirt sponsor for the event. The Mini Masters is held every year in conjunction with the Cottonwood Classic. It was June 2 and the Cottonwood Classic was rescheduled for Aug. 19 because of rain.
From left, Curt Wright, Kent Houk and Matt Lomchek participate in the Cottonwood Classic, a benefit for Cottonwood Inc. The team, from MGI Inc., along with Leon Dreiling, not pictured, took first place in the championship flight Aug. 19 at Alvamar Country Club.
From left, Don McNeely, Kansas University coach Bill Self, Pat Bello and Miles Schnaer participate in the Cottonwood Classic golf tournament Aug. 19 at Alvamar Country Club. The team took second place in the championship flight. Schnaer was a tournament sponsor.
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