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Photos for June 29, 2008

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Mitchell Boggs delivers during the first inning of the Cardinals' 5-1 victory. St. Louis snapped the Royals' six-game winning streak Saturday in Kansas City, Mo.

Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme points to this year's race map Thursday in Paris. For the second straight year, the race, set for July 5-27, will start without a defending champion.

Los Angeles Angels pitcher Jered Weaver delivers against the Dodgers. Weaver allowed no hits in six innings Saturday in Los Angeles, but was the losing pitcher.

Muna Lee, left, crosses the finish line ahead of Lauryn Williams to win the 100 on Saturday at the U.S. Olympic Trials. The Kansas City native was timed in 10.85.

Receipts from August 1935 from the Fashion Shoe Co. were among papers found by a construction crew digging between Fifth and Sixth Streets on Broadway in Pittsburg.

''Encierros," a Spanish expression describing the revelers who run along the streets in front of the bulls at the San Fermin Festival, run with a car from the Motor Racing F1 Red Bull Team as it drives down the street Saturday in Pamplona, northern Spain. Next Sunday at midday is the beginning of the famous San Fermin Fiestas.

A pall of smoke and debris rises from the ground during a bombardment by Pakistan's paramilitary force, using heavy artillery to bombard hideouts of suspected militants during a crackdown operation Saturday in Bara Akakheil in Pakistan's tribal area of Khyber. Pakistani forces bombarded suspected militant hideouts Saturday at the start of a major offensive against Taliban fighters threatening the main city in the country's volatile northwest, officials said.

An unidentified war protester yells during a speech by Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to the National Association of Latino Elected Officials meeting Saturday in Washington.

Jeffrey Lovitky carries these photographs of himself and Sandra Welner, who was blind and died in 2001, with him, in Washington, on June 16. In May 2002, Lovitky sued the Treasury Department on behalf of the American Council of the Blind, arguing that its failure to design a currency that is accessible to blind people is a form of discrimination.

Paul Klusman, left, holds his cat Zoey, and T.J. Wingard holds Ginger, in March in Wichita. In the foreground is Oscar. A video that Klusman and Wingard made about Klusman's cats includes footage of the cats yodeling and has had more than two million views on YouTube.

Shenandoah Rose Campsey, 1, sits among the roses in the Gage Park rose garden in Topeka. She is the daughter of Timothy and Abby Campsey and the granddaughter of Michael and Dana Hess, all of Lawrence. Michael Hess submitted the picture.

Jonathan Miles turned his experiences with bad air travel into "Dear American Airlines." In the novel, the lead character reveals his life's story in the course of penning a long letter of complaint to the airline as he sits in Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.

George Washington as a cast-iron stove-top figure was recently offered for sale by Thurston Nichols American Antiques of Breinigsville, PA. The 48-inch figure was made by Mott Iron Works of Brooklyn, N.Y., between 1875 and 1900.
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