Photos for May 9, 2012
Los Angeles Angels' Albert Pujols hits a two-run home run against the Toronto Blue Jays during the fifth inning of a baseball game in Anaheim, Calif., Sunday, May 6, 2012. This was Pujols' first home run of the season. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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Mountain View’s Jake Shelley gets around Decatur’s Brandon Zimmerman to steal second base.
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Mountain View’s Dean Taylor jumps back to his feet after sliding in to home to score Mountain View’s first run in a three-run second inning againt Decatur.
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Concordia University's Gabi Dixson is second in the NAIA in shot put this season.
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Concordia University's Gabi Dixson is fourth in the NAIA leader in hammer this season.
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Concordia University's Gabi Dixson is the NAIA leader in discus this season.
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Concordia University photos Concordia’s Gabi Dixson is among the NAIA’s best in discus, shot put and hammer this spring.
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Gabi Dixson, Concordia University track and field.
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Carolyn Driedger, hydrologist and the Cascades Volcano Observatory outreach coordinator, explains Tuesday how the U.S. Geological Survey monitors seismic activity of the Northwest’s volcanoes.
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Physical science technician Kate Norton prepares to photograph a sediment sample Tuesday. Norton is studying how asbestos levels in the Sumas River in northern Washington and British Columbia affect movement of sediment through the river. The Cascades Volcano Observatory has one of eight sediment labs in the United States. Although the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption spurred its creation, the lab also studies sediment issues not related to volcanoes.
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Carole Axford, a secretary at the Clark County Prosecutor’s Office, works at her desk Wednesday. Axford, who has been with the prosecutor’s office for 50 years, plans to retire in October.
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Steven Lane/The Columbian Carole Axford, a secretary at the Clark County Prosecutor’s Office, chats Wednesday with Deputy Prosecutor Michael Dodds. After 50 years, Axford is the longest-serving county employee in recent memory.
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Don Gladman, 76, Vancouver, looks for “anything bright and shiny” to add color to his yard.
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A twisty baby black locust tree stands against the sky at Shorty’s Nursery.
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Sandy Kalsch, 67, Washougal, shops for plants for her yard. Kalsch says that she returns to Shorty’s because of its outstanding customer service.
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Berkley's PowerBait and Gulp! dominate the dough bait market, according to the American Sportfishing Association.
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Rumor has it that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is considering two Vancouver locations for its smaller neighborhood market concept, including this former WinCo Foods store at Vancouver Plaza, off state Highway 500 and Thurston Way.
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A sinkhole closed a main entry to PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center on Wednesday in Vancouver,
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Bella Vista: Erin, James, and Maggie Altenhof-Long and Spencer Warner play board games.
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Ed Asner as FDR
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Ed Asner As Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Mitch Powers got a call from the History Channel show “Pawn Stars” about this 1889 Colt revolver that his father, Dale, owned.
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Bill Coleman
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Mitch Powers
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In this July 14, 1998 file photo, world-renowned hairdresser Vidal Sassoon applauds models at the end of the Vidal Sassoon Hair Show in Beijing. Sassoon, whose 1960s wash-and-wear cuts freed women from endless teasing and hairspray died Wednesday. He was 84.
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Only in the movies
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President Barack Obama, shown on television monitors in the White House briefing room in Washington on Wednesday, told an ABC News interviewer that he supports gay marriage.
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This April 30, 2012, photo shows a traveler passing through a security check point at Portland International Airport, in Portland, Ore. Airport security procedures, with their intrusive pat downs and body scans, don’t need to be toughened despite the discovery of a new al-Qaida airline bomb plot using more sophisticated technology than an earlier attempt, congressional and security officials said Tuesday.
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This undated file photo released by Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Interior purports to show Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, who built the first underwear bomb in 2009 and two others that al-Qaida built into printer cartridges and shipped to the U.S. on cargo planes in 2010.
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