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Photos for May 30, 2006
U13 Kaw Valley Force player Hillary Podrebarac works her way up the sideline against the Columbus Renegades. The Force played the Renegades in the Columbus Invite, a Memorial Day weekend torunament in Columbus, Neb. The Force tied in the game with the Renegades, 1-1.
The Elite pose for a team picture with Coach Murray after capturing the 10U Division 1 Classic Clup title May 20.
Matthew Huff shows off his medal after scoring the winning goal for the Elites in the Club League Division 1 championship game May 20. The goal was Huff's only one he ever scored and it was the winning shoot-out point.
U11 KVSA Force player Gavin Fischer shields the ball from a forward from the KC Legends WCI at the Kansas City Invitational Tournament on Saturday.
The Sidewinders third baseman keeps the Cardinals runner in check by keeping his foot on the base May 22 at Youth Sports Inc.
Rough Rider Sterling Ozark slaps a double to the right side in the bottom of the second against the Titans. Ozark would score later in the inning to help the 10U Rough Riders to a 16-1 victory on May 23.
Rough Rider Gage Nelson swipes second base in the first inning against the Titans. Nelson would steal his way home that inning, and the 10U Riders would go on to win 16-1 at Youth Sports Inc.
Bandits pitcher Daniel Aul pitched the first few innings in a blinding sun Wednesday against the 88's at Holcom Sports Complex.
Chialynn McCloud, 4, of Rochester, N.Y., salutes veterans as they march along Main Street during the city's annual Memorial Day parade.
Seth Blocker, 7, salutes next to his uncle, Dennis Blocker, during services at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio. On Seth's uniform are his great-great-grandfather's service ribbons.
Earl Hill runs his finger over the name of his brother, Tech Sgt. Alfred Wesley Hill, on the Wall of Honor in Enid, Okla., while Earl's son, Dave, stands behind him. The body of Alfred Wesley Hill, who went missing in action 63 years ago during World War II, was found this spring in New Guinea.
Dave Rowe, right, kisses the headstone of his son, Army Sgt. Michael D. Rowe, while comforting Rowe's pregnant widow, Rebecca Rowe, after a Memorial Day service at Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell, Fla. Michael Rowe, 23, was killed March 28 after a roadside bomb detonated near his Humvee in Rutbah, Iraq.
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, right, and Kelly Frantz, widow of Lucas Frantz, who died in Iraq, hug on the south lawn of the Statehouse after a Memorial Day ceremony. Army Spc. Lucas A. Frantz, 22, of Tonganoxie, was killed Oct. 18, 2005, by a sniper in Mosul, Iraq.
President Bush waves after speaking at Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Day commemoration. He and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld attended the ceremony just a short time after Bush signed into law a bill that restricts protests at military funerals.
Reggie and the Full Effect will be one of the acts for the Warped Tour, which will be June 19 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Bonner Springs.
Zoe Lucker portrays Tanya Turner, left, with Alison Newman as Hazel in a scene from the BBC America series "Footballers Wive$." While ABC's "Desperate Housewives" are away for the summer, the glitzy British series about very bad behavior in the soccer world returns for a fourth season.
A young earthquake victim eats breakfast Monday near his destroyed home at Bantul, Indonesia. The government raised the official death toll from Saturday's 6.3-magnitude quake on Java island to 5,427. An estimated 200,000 people have been left homeless, most of whom are now living in shacks close to their former homes or in shelters put up in rice fields.
Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, left, and Iraq Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebariand speak to the media Friday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq. Mottaki is the first high-level delegate from Tehran to visit since the new Iraqi government was formed.
A woman, right, is helped by another woman across the street in search of her son, who she believes has been killed as an Iraqi policeman patrols nearby. Clashes that followed a car bomb near Baghdad's main Sunni Abu Hanifa mosque killed at least nine Iraqi civilians and wounded 25 Monday in the Azamiyah neighborhood.
History buffs are hoping to restore the 150-year-old home, left, which was a stop on the Underground Railroad. The home next door would be used as a visitors' center. The project would be part of a proposed Bleeding Kansas National Heritage Area covering 26 counties.
Shawnee County Historical Society trustee Bill Wagnon talks about plans for the John Ritchie house in Topeka.
Mac Wisler lets his daughter Ada reach for cupcakes on her first birthday. Tess Wisler, Ada's aunt, submitted the picture.
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Shawnee County Historical Society trustee Bill Wagnon walks away from the partially restored John Ritchie house in Topeka.
Afghan protesters throw stones at a U.S. military vehicle after a traffic accident Monday in Kabul, Afghanistan. The deadly accident involving U.S. troops sparked a riot in the capital, with gunfire heard near the U.S. Embassy. At least three people died in the accident and a fourth person was reportedly killed by gunfire, police said.
A medical worker on Monday checks the health condition of Johannes Ginting, 25, the sole survivor of an Indonesian family infected with bird flu, at the Adam Malik Hospital in Medan, north Sumatra, Indonesia. At least six of Ginting's relatives have died of the virus.
Roanoke police officers, from left, Keith Roberts, M.L. Pendleton and Garrett Lancaster Sr., attempt to wrangle a yearling black bear cub Monday at the rear of a church in Roanoke, Va. The cub was tranquilized multiple times and eventually caught.
Sprint Nextel corp. researchers Robert Moritz, left, and Clyde Heppner watch a closed-circuit television as a volunteer on the other side of a one-way mirror performs functions on a Sprint cell phone at the company's operational headquarters in Overland Park. The company uses such research to make the phones it sells simpler to use.
Kansas University coach Ritch Price looks on during the Jayhawks' 9-7 victory over Nebraska. The outcome Sunday in Oklahoma City gave KU its first conference baseball title since 1949.
Miami's Dwyane Wade hangs onto the rim after dunking against the Detroit Pistons. The Heat won Game 4, 89-78, Monday in Miami.
Kansas City's Andres Blanco (13) breaks up a double play as he goes into Oakland shortstop Bobby Crosby. David DeJesus was safe at first base. The Royals took the series opener from the Athletics, 6-4, Monday in Oakland, Calif.
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