Photo gallery: The day in photos, Sept. 24, 2011

photo by: Kevin Anderson

Carrie Vincent, who is serving time for first-degree murder, enjoys a run Friday morning at the Topeka Correctional Facility. She will be participating in a 10K race on Sunday that will benefit the Northeast Kansas Parkinson Association's support group. She is running in recognition of a fellow inmate who has Parkinson's.

photo by: Kevin Anderson

Esmie Tseng speeds away in the morning light as she and other inmates at the Topeka Correctional Facility train Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, for a 5K and 10K race to benefit the Northeast Kansas Parkinson Association's support group. The benefit race is Sunday.

photo by: Kevin Anderson

Shoes that were donated to Running Free, an inmate running group at the Topeka Correctional Facility.

photo by: Chuck Baird

Photo of Chuck Baird, a 1967 graduate of the Kansas School for the Deaf and renowned "DeVIA" artist, which is short for Deaf Visual/Image Art. The art form is a combination of traditional art forms — paintings, drawings, sculptures — with elements of American Sign Language mixed in. Baird spent the weekend back in Olathe, celebrating the school's 150th anniversary with about 1,000 other alumni.

photo by: Kevin Anderson

Laura Kreisler, who is serving for time for embezzlement, takes a morning run Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, at the Topeka Correctional Facility. Kreisler, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2001, says running has been a benefit physically and emotionally.

photo by: Nick Krug

A truck drives down a long and empty stretch of the new U.S. Highway 59 construction project after dropping off a load of gravel south of North 650 Road on Friday, Sept. 23, 2011. Crews plan to begin laying concrete during the first week of October as the project moves toward completion by the end of next year.