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Kayla Blevins, 13, of the Pioneer 4-H Club, waits her turn to check in her sheep Tuesday at the Douglas County Fair.

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Holly Swearingen, 9, of the Eudora 4-H Club, gives a hog a drink Tuesday afternoon during check-in late in the afternoon at the Douglas County Fair.

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Sarah Ward, 7, of the Kanwaka 4-H Club, wrapped her gourd in a towel to bring it to the Douglas County Fair on Tuesday as she checked it in the food division.

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Volunteer judges like Sy Nyhart, of Leavenworth, look over the vegetables as they came in for the Douglas County Fair Tuesday. The fair runs through Sunday.

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Clinton Eagles' Kahlyn Heines, 17, collected a purple ribbon in photography on Tuesday afternoon from Jerry Liles, of Topeka. The Douglas County Fair opened Tuesday as 4-Her's brought livestock and other projects to the fair.

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Ashley Lesser, 15, of the Stull Busy Beavers, checks out her woodworking project a lounge chair just before she entered it in the Douglas County Fair Tuesday afternoon.

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Coy Leming, 8, of the Stull Busy Beavers, listens to the judge tell him about his bird house.

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Marcus Denmon, a guard with the KC Pump N Run goes for a lay up during the AAU final in the Price Chopper Tournament in Shawnee. Denmon team defeated the Illinois Warriors. Denmon is on KU's list of potential recruits and he played with KU signee Travis Releford on the KC Pump N Run team.

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Fair Volunteers like Genny Hunsinger, are just some of the people who help volunteer during the Douglas County Fair. Hunsinger helped with the preserved foods, on Tuesday morning.

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Kansas City quarterback damon haurd (11) and Brodie Croyle (12) wait for snaps. The two continued their competition for the Chiefs' starting role Tuesday in River Falls, Wis.

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Mike Silverman, left, and his partner Dave Greenbaum hug after completing the online domestic partner registry at the Lawrence City Hall. Silverman and Greenbaum, a gay Lawrence couple, celebrated their registry on Wednesday.

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From left, New York Yankees pitching coach Ron Guidry, special adviser Yogi Berra, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter and left fielder Hideki Matsui pose for a picture with the 2008 All-Star game logo. The logo was unveiled Tuesday at Yankee Stadium in New York. The 2008 All-Star game will be played at Yankee Stadium.

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Members of the Lawrence youth football gorillas perform stretching exercises before the first practice of the season. More than 60 players gathered Tuesday at Sunflower Elementary School.

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Phenix-Ramler's Jordan Erickson dodges an inside pitch while Alex Hill takes a lead off third base. The Phenix softball team competed in the USSSA "B" nationals July 24-29 in Independence, Mo. The team finished 27th out of 76 teams.

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KU signee Travis Releford (24) drives to the basket during the 2007 Price Chopper AAU tournament in this file photo.

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Newly acquired Boston Celtics forward Kevin Garnett, right, stands with former Kansas University forward Paul Pierce at a news conference Tuesday in Boston. Pierce, 29, is hoping the addition of Garnett will make the Celtics a title contender.

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Kansas City quarterbacks Brodie Croyle (12) and Damon Huard run drills. The Chiefs held training camp Tuesday in River Falls, Wis.

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James Howard, back row center, Lawrence, a 2006 Kansas University graduate, organizes a basketball clinic at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. Howard accepted a basketball coaching position at SIAS University in Xinzheng, China.

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A mother of one of the South Korean hostages in Afghanistan cries during a news conference calling for their safe return, in Sungnam, South Korea. South Korean families pleaded Tuesday for help from the United States to peacefully resolve a hostage standoff in Afghanistan as they mourned the death of a second captive amid fears that rejecting the Taliban captors' demand for prisoner releases could lead to more killings.

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Polar bear cub Knut walks through his pen on Tuesday at the Berlin Zoo. The young polar bear is too fat, according to the German zoo's physician, so he will not be fed anymore with croissants or extra portions of fish and meat.

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How can something so small be so annoying? When its user cranks the volume a little too high.

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U.S. soldiers break a chain to search a house during a patrol Tuesday in west Baghdad. The Army announced Tuesday that the July death toll for troops in Iraq hit an eight-month low.

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Raiders teammates Daniel Green, left, and Matt Abel run through a hand slap ritual in the dugout following Abel's scored run in the third inning of Tuesday night's game against the Topeka Senators at Free State High School. The Raiders defeated the Senators 9-1 qualifying them for state.

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Halee Barnes, 17, of the Stull Busy Beavers 4-H Club, looks over a rabbit named Ruby before entering it in the Douglas County Fair on Tuesday. Organizers estimate more than 300 volunteers will put in more than 6,000 hours of work to operate the fair.

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Faron Cotten slides a backside boardslide down the handrail at Centennial Park. After four years of pushing to expand the city's skate park, local skaters will have to continue to wait as city officials put the skatepark addition on hold.

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Daryl Ortgies, formulations chemist with Lawrence-based Prosoco Inc., applies a solvent that he helped develop to remove graffiti from the west wall of Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 6001 Bob Billings Parkway. Nine Lawrence churches have been damaged by graffiti since last weekend.

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Eudora farmer Jim Gabriel, president of the Douglas County Fair Board, eats pie with his son Tucker, 9, Tuesday morning at the fair. As part of his duties, Jim Gabriel takes part in daily pie judging and names the best pie entered that day.

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Treanor Architects of Lawrence released this rendering of a new dormitory and additional training space at the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center near Hutchinson, a $16 million capital improvement project.

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