The day in photos, May 26, 2011

photo by: Nick Wass/AP Photo

The Orioles scoreboard Honors former Kansas City pitcher Paul Splittorff before the Royals’ game against the Orioles on Wednesday in Baltimore. Splittorff passed away Wednesday of complications from skin cancer.

photo by: Nick Krug

Members of the the Lawrence High baseball coaching staff: head coach Brad Stoll, center, Adam Green, left, Brandon Johnson and Chris Johnson. LHS will face Shawnee Mission West in the Class 6A state tournament on Friday at Kansas University’s Hoglund Ballpark.

photo by: Becky Hale/National Geographic Society

Stefan Petrovic finished third in the National Geographic Bee, and apparently was afforded the opportunity to interview himself afterward.

photo by: Scott Rothschild

KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, state Sen. Carolyn McGinn, and Gov Sam Brownback on Wednesday share a laugh after Brownback signed into law measures aimed at increasing the number of engineering graduates in Kansas.

photo by: Mike Illig | Special to the Journal-World

This photo, taken by Mike Illig, shows a funnel cloud forming over Leawood near I-435 and Mission Road Wednesday, May 25, 2011.

photo by: Kevin Anderson

Matthew Kelso, left, and Victoria Lehmann spent some time Wednesday scraping fencing used for livestock at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2110 Harper St. About 10 members of Eudora High School National Honor Society volunteered their time to help get the fencing ready for painting.

photo by: City of Lawrence

A 10-inch waterline installed in 1922 by the city. The 10-inch pipe has about five to six inches of corrosion inside of it.