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Missouri coach Mike Anderson holds up the Big 12 championship trophy after defeating Baylor 73-60 in the Big 12 Conference men's tournament championship game in Oklahoma City, Saturday, March 14, 2009.

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Firefighters extinguish flames that broke out around at a 1908 E. 19th St. home in the Brookwood Mobile Home Park in March.

Photo by Richard Gwin

Brianne Kuester and Matt Whitesell, center, talk with Nicholas Lerner about a home for sale in west Lawrence. Lerner works for McGrew Real Estate.

Photo by Richard Gwin

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County Commissioner Charles Jones, pictured here in a 2002 file photo, is a 10-year veteran of the commission. He plans to resign his seat, saying that his duties as director of the KU Public Management Center are becoming more time-consuming as the center expands its reach into Kansas City.

Photo by Mike Yoder Journal-World File Photo

Oklahoma State’s Marshall Moses (33) shoots as Missouri’s DeMarre Carroll, left, and Missouri’s Kim English defend. MU won, 67-59, on Friday in Oklahoma City.

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Baylor's Kevin Rogers, left, and Baylor's Mamadou Diene (15) celebrate their 76-70 win over Texas in an NCAA college basketball game at the Big 12 Conference men's tournament in Oklahoma City, Friday, March 13, 2009.

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Lisa Garretson Rasmussen and Thomas Veatch Murray

Michael McNulty and Rachel Nixon

Mary and Don Walker

Betty and Bob Williams

Erica and Jonathan Anderson

Ashley Anstaett All and Matt All

Brent Boyle and Darcy DeVictor

Shanxi Upsdell and Ifeoluwa Omoniyi

Brent Rill and Anjali Kansal

Members of Pi Beta Phi sorority at Kansas University visited the KVC Psychiatric Hospital, in Kansas City, Kan., on Feb. 6 to deliver hundreds of books and bookmarks to children. From left are sorority members Lindsay McNeese, Anne Tampke, Courtney Montle, Annie Thompson as the Cat in the Hat, Katie Drown and Emily Glenn. The books will be used by the children who visit the hospital and residential treatment center and attend classes at the KVC Academy, the hospital’s on-site school.

Photo courtesy of Renny Arensberg

Woodlawn School hosted its annual chili supper Jan. 29. In an effort to promote community education, the school’s PTO invited Megan Richardson with the First State Bank and Trust to provide training on financial planning and credit protection. Participating in the event are, from left, Anthony Sutton, Ninette Schorr, Virginia Sutton, Francisco Lemus, Jessica Wollesen, Richardson, and Kenna Heim.

Photo courtesy of Jerry Jost

The Lawrence Youth Symphony recognized 10th-grade performers at its Spring Recognition Concert March 8 at Central Junior High School. From left are Ulrich Johanning, Lawrence High School; Victoria Gilman, Free State High School; Jennifer Wilson, FSHS; Rosie Murray, FSHS; Adriane Dick, FSHS; Alec Fitzgerald, FSHS; Morgan Manger, LHS; and Ben Markley, FSHS.

Photo courtesy of Judy Gilman

The Free State Symphony Orchestra performed back-to-back concerts on Feb. 23 at Washburn University and Feb. 24 at Free State High School. Soloists, from left, are Emily Paulsen, flute; Victoria Gilman, violin; Juliet Remmers. voice; Jenny Loewen, violin; and Betty Zhang, piano.

Photo courtesy of Judy Gilman

Woodlawn School teachers Marilou Cavin and Sue Siegfreid introduce students to Kansas Day activities after the annual chili supper on Jan. 29. From left are Cavin, Cameron Elphick and Siegfreid.

Photo courtesy of Jerry Jost

In honor of 45 years of service to Scouting units in Baldwin City, Betty Lawrenz, assistant Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 65, was presented a cake by John Richards, Scoutmaster of Troop 65. Lawrenz also received flowers and a 45-year service star on Feb. 22 at the Baldwin Elementary School Intermediate Center.

Photo courtesy of Joe Bollig

Vic Perry, instructor of the New Dance Class, calls a square dance for the Happy Time Squares during its March 2 graduation party. Graduation followed 23 sessions for 31 new dancers.

Photo courtesy of Jerry Henley

The Lawrence Happy Time Squares square dance club presents its new dancer class of 31 graduates on March 2. Standing from left are Angela Posch, Gwen Whitebread, Marshal Aumiller, Don Adams, Gary Sanden, Max Daugherty, Betty Guder, Dale Guder, Ronda Shepard, Tim Shepard, Nancy DeGarmo, Tom DeGarmo, Bob Suderman, Terry Copeland, Ron Copeland, Jim Pych, Darell Hogan, Phill Gabriel, John Westcott and Marck Posch; front row, from left, Mary Jennings, Belinda Schuman, Jo Morgan, Shirley Adams, Teresa Olds, Linn Suderman, Elsie Middleton, Tammy Gabriel and Loretta Wright. Not pictured are Maria Sangen and Cheyenne Stephens. A party was given that included a dinner, ice cream and cake. The DeGarmos carried the club’s banner in a march of square dance clubs in northeast Kansas at a regional party on March 8 at Croco Hall in Topeka.

Photo courtesy of Jerry Henley

Members of the Imani Winds quartet perform for preschool children Feb. 10 on the stage of the Lied Center on Kansas University’s West Campus. The program was part of the Lied Center’s Arts 3to5 program.

Photo courtesy of Lied Center

Zhang Xiaoming plays the erhu during a demonstration before the Feb. 19 performance of Wu Man at the Lied Center. He and other members of the KC Chinese Music Ensemble shared information about their instruments with Lawrence community members during the program in the Lied Center’s Seymour Gallery.

Photo courtesy of Lied Center

A young man places candles for the victims of the school attack Friday in Stuttgart, Germany. Tim Kretschmer, 17, gunned down students at his former high school in Winnenden on Wednesday before fleeing on foot and by car, killing three more people, and eventually turning a 9-millimeter Beretta pistol on himself.

Daniel Maurer/AP Photo

An exiled Tibetan hangs multicolored prayer flags Friday in Dharmsala, India. Believed by Tibetans to spread prayers in the wind, these colored flags represent the five elements: earth, water, fire, wind and sky.

Altaf Qadri/AP Photo

Richard Foster Treece

Students read books Feb. 20 at Wooden Valley Elementary School in Napa, Calif. More than 150 years after it was established, this one-room schoolhouse could fall victim to an economic crisis that threatens to close schools across the country.

Jeff Chiu/AP Photo

A squirrel, who’s obviously not shy, reaches for a peanut from the hand of a man Tuesday at Mount Royal Park in Montreal.

Sheila Boardman/AP Photo

A red light camera is seen at an intersection Jan. 27 in Clive, Iowa. As more cities sign up and others invest their profits into more cameras, the companies that operate the cameras expect increased revenue for years to come.

Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo

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Miners prepare cutting equipment in the mine Dec. 11 at American Rock Salt in Hampton Corners, N.Y.

David Duprey/AP Photo

This photo released by forensic archaeologist and anthropologist Matteo Borrini of Florence University, Italy, Friday, shows the 16th-century remains of a woman with a brick stuck between her jaws unearthed in 2006 in an archaeological dig near Venice, northern Italy.

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Bernard Madoff arrives at Manhattan federal court Thursday in New York. Madoff and his wife had $823 million in assets at the end of last year, documents filed Friday show.

Louis Lanzano/AP Photo

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CNBC’s Jim Cramer

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A refueling tanker flies with two military helicopters in Tampa, Fla., in this Jan. 1, 2002, file photo. Many of the nation’s refueling tankers have been in service since the Eisenhower administration. Members of Kansas congressional delegation are urging the Obama administration to proceed with awarding a new contract to replace the planes, which could be a boon to the state’s economy.

Chris O'Meara/AP File Photo

Deerfield School sixth-grade teacher Paul Corcoran, left, who frquently wears a kilt to school in honor of his heritage, was given a little musical surprise Friday from the Deerfield staff. After the bagpipe performance, Corcoran chatted with bagpiper Chris Hannemann.

Photo by Kevin Anderson

Swiss Federal President Hans-Rudolf Merz, head of the Federal Department of Finance, speaks during a news conference in Bern. The Swiss government said Friday it would cooperate on cases of international tax evasion, breaking with a long-standing tradition of protecting wealthy foreigners accused of hiding billions of dollars in Swiss bank accounts.

Peter Schneider/Keystone Photo

Paleontologist Marcus Ross speaks under a towering tyrannosaurus rex at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington to students from Liberty University’s Advanced Creation Studies class. Each year the class travels from Lynchburg, Va., to visit the museum which, like all mainstream natural history institutions, is fundamentally Darwinian.

Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post

Prime Minister Wen Jiabao

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In this Nov. 12, 2008, file photo, Hippo baby Farasi, born on Nov. 6, 2008, is seen in its enclosure along with mother Helvetia in the zoo in Basel, Switzerland. A Swiss zoo on Friday rejected fears that a baby hippopotamus could be put down and fed to the tigers because of lack of space.

AP File Photo

Police officers arrest lawyer Samina Nauman as she takes part in an anti-government march Thursday in Karachi, Pakistan. Police detained protest leaders Thursday and stopped hundreds of marchers from leaving Pakistan’s largest city for a rally in the capital, underscoring the government’s determination to quash the demonstration.

Shakil Adil/AP Photo

Craig Campbell, Olathe, right, and his father, Bill, visit the Lloyd Noble Center at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Okla., and see a Kansas University basketball win. Bill submitted the picture.

Loralee Stevens, left, and her son Simon, 7, read together at their Tonganoxie home. Simon struggled for a while with bedtime, and Loralee has employed a number of strategies to help him settle down at night.

Photo by Ryan McGeeney

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Ella Seibel and her dog, Oslo, meet a neighborhood cat named Grandma on their daily walk Friday. The cat and dog have become friends.

Photo by Philip Heying

A new wing is being constructed on the north side of Immanuel Lutheran Church, 2104 Bob Billings Parkway.

Photo by Mike Yoder

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The Rev. Randall Weinkauf and his wife, Nancy, are now at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 2104 Bob Billings Parkway, after serving in Hawaii.

Photo by Mike Yoder

Joy and Marty Pattin, of Lawrence, will be senior queen and king in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Joy is the daughter of John Weatherwax, a jazz band musician whom the parade will be honoring.

Photo by Kevin Anderson

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