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Photos for April 8, 2007
Kansas University senior Tyler Staples, Kansas City, Kan., left, and Jeremy Woods, right, leave Holcom Sports Complex after leading tryouts for the Lawrence Dynasty, a youth baseball team. Kansas lawmakers intend to amend the concealed-carry bill so that cities cannot ban firearms at outdoor youth sports venues.
Detroit's Gary Sheffield, right, rounds second past Kansas City's Mark Grudzielanek after hitting a home run. Sheffield homered off Gil Meche in the Tigers' 6-5 victory Saturday in Kansas City, Mo.
KANSAS CITY ROYALS CATCHER JOHN BUCK gives pitcher Gil Meche some encouragement after Meche allowed a fifth-inning home run to Detroit's Curtis Granderson. The Tigers earned a 6-5 victory Saturday at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.
Tiger woods checks the wind on the fifth hole. Woods bogeyed twice at the end of the third round of the Masters on Saturday in Augusta, Ga., but climbed the leaderboard later in the day as others struggled with cold, windy conditions.
Tiger Woods hits from a bunker on the 12th hole. Woods shot a third-round 72 at the Masters on Saturday in Augusta, Ga.
Workers stock Douglas State Fishing Lake in this file photo from last fall. Though work is complete on the lake, it won't be open to fishing until late 2008 or 2009.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FORWARD KEVIN DURANT speaks to the media after winning the 2007 John R. Wooden Award. Durant was presented the award as the national player of the year Saturday in Los Angeles.
Blake Larsen, right, speaks with fellow officers during Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training at the Lenexa Police Station. Just a few years ago, Larsen was a prized offensive-line recruit headed to Iowa. He never started a game and quit after his junior year.
Phil Mickelson checks his line needed to hit out of the rough on the second hole. Mickelson shot a 73 during the third round of the Masters on Saturday in Augusta, Ga.
Henrik Stenson blasts from a bunker on the second hole, wearing a stocking cap and long sleeves. A noon temperature of 43 degrees and wind gusting to 23 mph had players scrambling for warm clothing Saturday in Augusta, Ga.
Stuart Appleby tees off on the eighth hole during the third round of the Masters. Appleby shot a 73 on Saturday in Augusta, Ga., and leads by one stroke.
Mike Bryan, right, returns a shot as partner Bob Bryan looks on. The Bryans defeated Spain's Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco, 7-5, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 (5), on Saturday in Winston-Salem, N.C., to put the United States into the Davis Cup semifinals.
Miles Clasen, 5, practices finger strikes with other children during the the Kid Safe Program on Saturday morning at Premier Martial Arts, 3201 Clinton Parkway Court. Instructors helped the children learn how to protect themselves against abduction and exploitation.
Robert Olmstead, author of the forthcoming Civil War novel "Coal Black Horse," has taught an array of students who have went on to become published authors.
This George III mahogany bedside table is a late 18th-century commode. It held a bowl that was hidden by the unusual apron on the side. This year it sold, unaltered, at New Orleans Auction Galleries for $1,140.
Deeanna and Kurt Barrett and their 5-month-old daughter, Ava, ride in a golf cart to a nearby beach at the Loews Coronado Bay Resort in Coronado, Calif. Kurt Barrett, general manager for a rice distributor in Williams, Calif., brought his family along on a recent business trip, a practice that some companies are encouraging to keep employees productive and happy.
Martha Stewart poses with a camel Saturday during a concert of folk music and dance in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Stewart came Friday to the bleak space town of Baikonur to say goodbye to friend Charles Simonyi, a software engineer and developer of Microsoft Word who paid $25 million for a 13-day trip to the space station. Stewart rode a camel on her visit. "The ride was excellent," she said.
Space tourist U.S. billionaire Charles Simonyi, center, waves goodbye Saturday with Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin, top, and Oleg Kotov just before the launch of the Soyuz TMA-10 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Simonyi will post blog entries of his activities on the space station, which will include conducting experiments and celebrating Cosmonauts' Day with a feast planned by his friend Martha Stewart.
The Cute Leopard Girl Scout Troop 636 decorates posters about little green helpers helping the community each year for the St. Patrick'ÂÂs Day Parade. They are all students of Kennedy and Prairie Park schools in Lawrence. Sherri Kessler, Lawrence, submitted the picture. Got a shot for Friends & Neighbors? Send it, along with your name, phone number, residence, and children's ages, to Friends & Neighbors, P.O. Box 888, Lawrence 66044, or go online at www.ljworld.com.
People wave national flags during a protest Saturday in Baghdad. Some 1,500 protesters demanded that the government make the streets of Baghdad safer.
Shawn O'Fallon of Anchorage, Alaska, climbs the North Ridge of K2 in the Xinjiang Province of China during the summer of 2000. Mountain climbers are increasingly telling stories of melting glaciers and other signs of global warming.
Some of the estimated 10,000 marchers are shown during an immigration rights rally Saturday in Los Angeles. Marchers filled the streets to demand amnesty for the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants.
Claire Chevrier, right, of Boca Raton, Fla., is greeted Saturday by a friend after her arrival at Miami International Airport. Claire had been aboard the Sea Diamond, a Greek-flagged cruise ship that hit a reef and sank Thursday off an Aegean Sea island. Nearly 1,600 people were retrieved from the sinking ship in a three-hour rescue operation after the vessel foundered on a volcanic reef.
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Free State's Ben Knight, 17, high-fives teammate and referee Cali Burke, 17, while Lawrence High's Weston Allen, 17, consoles teammate Tony Thompson, 17, after losing a round to Knight during Saturday morning's Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament, held in the South Park gazebo.
Lawrence High School's Emily Lamb, 17, competes in a round during the Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament against Free State High School Saturday morning.
Cali Burke, 17, left, plays scissors against Tony Thompson's, 17, rock as Weston Allen, 17, the "Brigadier General" of the Lawrence High School's Rock, Paper, Scissors Club, referees. The Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament between LHS and Free State High was held Saturday morning in the South Park gazebo.
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