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Photos for September 14, 2008
Around 5 p.m. I got home from work, and got out of my truck to feel a little heat temperature, with no wind or rain. I turned around and saw the tornado just start to touch on the ground about a quarter of a mile from my house (Eudora). I ran to the house and told my family go to the basement right away. There's no damage here.
Mark Mangino
USC quarterback Mark Sanchez celebrates a touchdown pass in the first half. No. 1 USC destroyed No. 5 Ohio State, 35-3, on Saturday night in Los Angeles.
Lawrence resident and former Wichita state bowler Kristal Wilson will be featured today on ESPN in the U.S. Women's Open.
Missouri wide receiver Jeremy Maclin, right, catches a 14-yard touchdown pass during the second quarter Saturday in Columbia, Mo.
Georgia's Knowshon Moreno leaps past South Carolina's Mike Newton (35) on his way to a 4-yard, go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter of Georgia's 14-7 victory over South Carolina on Saturday in Columbia, S.C.
In this July 29 file photo, San Francisco quarterback J.T. O'Sullivan passes during NFL training camp in Santa Clara, Calif. With nine stints on eight NFL teams in the last seven years, the quarterback has never stayed in one place for long since leaving college.
Mark Cavendish raises his arms in celebration after winning the sixth stage of the Tour of Missouri on Saturday in St. Charles, Mo.
Jim Wathens, 84, center, is helped from a rescue boat Saturday in Galveston, Texas, by police officer Bobby Sanderson, left, and beach patrol's Shean Migues after Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast. Hundreds of people in Texas and Louisiana were awaiting rescue from high water.
Amba Sidabutar, back, and his three sons, Trevor, 4, left, Hugh, 6, and Cole, 10, visit the Batur Volcano in Bali during a summer vacation to Amba's home country of Indonesia. Ann Woodbury, Lawrence, submitted the picture.
Tessa Berry, 4, takes a bite from an ear of roasted corn held by her father, Todd Berry, on Saturday at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson. The fair ends today.
Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gives a thumbs up to service members in the crowd during a rally Saturday in Anchorage, Alaska.
Cattle graze under a rainbow on a farm near Tonganoxie. The rainbow appeared just before sunset on Saturday, and for a few minutes was a double rainbow. The phenomenon was visible in Lawrence and Eudora before darkness overtook the sky.
Russian soldiers with a Russian flag sit atop an armored vehicle Saturday as they pull out of their positions heading to Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia near Zugdidi, Georgia. Hundreds of Russian forces packed up and withdrew from positions Saturday in western Georgia.
Parents show babies suffering from kidney stones at a hospital in Lanzhou, in northwest China's Gansu province. Public health authorities in Lanzhou are investigating a brand of baby formula after 14 babies who drank it developed kidney stones.
Pope Benedict XVI greets faithful at the end of a candle procession for the Virgin Mary on Saturday at the Lourdes shrine, southwestern France.The pontiff celebrated the 150th anniversary of apparitions of the Virgin Mary to local 14-year-old girl, Bernadette Soubirous. The shrine draws 6 million people annually, some of them disabled or desperately sick, many of them hoping for a miracle.
First-time novelist Kathleen Kent used the story of her great-grandmother nine generations back as a springboard for "The Heretic's Daughter."
Wooden musicians hold an oak clock with brass numerals and hands. The clock was made about 1900 and belonged to the family that owned the Old Boston Distillery. It sold for $3,680 at a James Julia auction in Fairfield, Maine.
Gizmo, a half-Pomeranian and half-poodle, was rescued four years ago from a shelter in St. Joseph, Mo. He belongs to Beau and Tammy Moody, Baldwin City, and spends weekday afternoons keeping his 84-year-old grandmother, Madeleine, company.
Oscar celebrated his 13th birthday May 2 with his family: Amy, Alexis, Briceson, Jack and Pete Junge.
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