Photos for February 8, 2013
Tow truck operator Shawn Juhre sets up road safety reflectors before towing a car out of a ditch during a winter snow storm in Buffalo, N.Y., Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. Snow began falling across the Northeast on Friday, ushering in what was predicted to be a huge, possibly historic blizzard and sending residents scurrying to stock up on food and gas up their cars. The storm could dump 1 to 3 feet of snow from New York City to Boston and beyond. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
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A woman walks through blowing snow Friday in Boston.
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Prairie defenders Nicole Goecke, 22, Cori Woodward, 12, and Lindsay Asplund, 10, trap Kelso's Brianna Salberg at the 3A district basketball finals at Columbia River High School, Friday, February 8, 2013. (Steven Lane/The Columbian)
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Columbia River celebrates after beating Mountain View at the 3A district basketball finals at Columbia River High School, Friday, February 8, 2013. (Steven Lane/The Columbian)
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San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum talks to reporters on Friday.
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Actor Bill Murray hits off the 17th tee of the Spyglass Hill Golf Course during the second round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament Friday.
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Eleanor Otley, a resident of The Regent in Corvallis, Ore., works on a quilt Feb. 1. Otley is one of a handful of seniors using their sewing skills to create quilts for survivors of Hurricane Sandy.
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Columbia River's Devin Bolds (3) blocks the shot of Mountain View's Luke DuChesne as River repeated as district champion.
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Columbia River's Torey Jones scores against Mountain View in the Class 3A district title game. Jones finished with nine points as the Chieftains beat the Thunder 63-51.
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Monte Hidden, one of the Hidden brothers who intends to sell The Academy to the Fort Vancouver National Trust, leads visitors on a tour of the building, including the second-floor chapel.
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Ann Hammond, class of 1965, enjoys classmates' stories of the greatness, and the goofy goings-on, at the historic Providence Academy in downtown Vancouver. Eighty people attended a school reunion Thursday.
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Veronica Dhanens, class of 1955, shows a cap she wore as a student at Providence Academy (the V is for Vancouver) during Thursday's reunion.
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The whole group gathers for a photo on the front steps of The Academy; afterward there was lots of laughter and catching up.
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James DePreist conducts the Oregon Symphony in a 2003 concert at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland.
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Kicking the Can
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Failing the Gun Test
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Presidential Powers
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Inga Galbraith From left, Kjer Galbraith and Kaya Galbraith, and Pearson Air Museum manager Laureano Mier at the Memorial Day Parade in Portland in 2012.
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Jeffrey and Sandra Weller kiss each other before they are taken in to custody after the jury returned with multiple guilty verdicts related to imprisoning, starving and beating their adopted twins.
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Jeffrey Weller, 43, and his wife, Sandra Weller, 50, are handcuffed after they were convicted in February of multiple felonies related to imprisoning, starving and beating their adopted twins.
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Houston Rockets' James Harden, center, is sandwiched between Portland Trail Blazers Damian Lillard (0) and LaMarcus Aldridge in the second half Friday. The Rockets won 118-103.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has put out bids to have part of its 14-acre Salmon Creek site cleared of two vacant buildings at 12923 and 12925 N.E. Rockwell Drive, bordering Northeast 129th Street east of Interstate 205.
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Prof. Brancaccio's class is in session.
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If built, a proposed 500-kilovolt transmission line would cross the Clark-Cowlitz county line just below Merwin Dam, shown here. The entire 79-mile line would stretch between Castle Rock and Troutdale, Ore.
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The Bonneville Power Administration's preferred route for a new transmission line could fill up to 21 acres of wetlands, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Here, homes and wetlands are shown southeast of Lake Merwin, near the proposed route of the line.
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A proposed 500-kilovolt transmission line in Southwest Washington would pass through Camas along the path of existing power lines, shown here, replacing them. The entire 79-mile line would stretch between Castle Rock and Troutdale, Ore., mostly through rural areas and timberland.
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Homes southeast of Lake Merwin sit near the proposed route of a new high-powered transmission line through Clark and Cowlitz counties. Here, the preferred route for the line would run parallel to an existing PacifiCorp powerline, at the bottom of the frame.
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If built, a proposed 500-kilovolt transmission line would cross the Clark-Cowlitz county line just below Merwin Dam, shown here. The entire 79-mile line would stretch between Castle Rock and Troutdale, Ore.
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Dan Coyro/Santa Cruz Sentinel Dr. Theresa Arteaga, veterinary oncologist, checks out her patient Otto at the Pacific Veterinary office in Capitola, Calif.
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Sara Fletcher performs a Burpee.
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Sara Fletcher performs a torso roll.
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Sara Fletcher performs a Burpee.
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Sara Fletcher performs a Burpee.
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Sara Fletcher performs a torso roll.
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Sara Fletcher performs a jump squat.
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Sara Fletcher performs a torso roll.
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Sara Fletcher performs a torso roll.
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Sara Fletcher performs a jump squat.
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Sara Fletcher performs a Burpee.
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Dan Tidwell, center left, and his son, Thaddeus, center right, both of Gold Bar, wear their AR-15 rifles as they attend a gun rights rally Friday at the Capitol in Olympia.
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Christopher Knight of Everett displays a U.S. flag in the barrel of his Ruger 10/22 rifle as he attends a gun rights rally Friday at the Capitol in Olympia. Several hundred people gathered and spoke against proposed legislation at both the state and national levels aimed at curbing gun violence.
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People attending a gun rights rally listen to a speaker Friday at the Capitol in Olympia.
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Ryan Brooks of Shelton holds his AR-15 rifle as he attends a gun rights rally Friday at the Capitol in Olympia.
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Tony FranzOnTrac's Vancouver general manager
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Workers load trucks at OnTrac.
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OnTrac, a regional package delivery company serving seven Western states, established a facility in Vancouver in 2005. The company has 64 local employees.
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If built, a proposed 500-kilovolt transmission line would cross the Clark-Cowlitz county line just below Merwin Dam, shown here. The entire 79-mile line would stretch between Castle Rock and Troutdale, Ore.
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The Bonneville Power Administration's preferred route for a new transmission line could fill up to 21 acres of wetlands, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Here, homes and wetlands are shown southeast of Lake Merwin, near the proposed route of the line.
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A proposed transmission line in Southwest Washington would pass through Camas along the path of existing powerlines, shown here. The 79-mile line would stretch between Castle Rock and Troutdale, Ore., mostly through rural areas and timberland.
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Homes southeast of Lake Merwin sit near the proposed route of a new high-powered transmission line through Clark and Cowlitz counties. Here, the preferred route for the line would run parallel to an existing PacifiCorp powerline, at the bottom of the frame.
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If built, a proposed 500-kilovolt transmission line would cross the Clark-Cowlitz county line just below Merwin Dam, shown here. The entire 79-mile line would stretch between Castle Rock and Troutdale, Ore.
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Mary Ann Bova walks along a slippery snow-covered sidewalk during a winter storm in Buffalo, N.Y., on Friday. In some upstate areas, snow fell early Friday morning and was expected to increase throughout the day, with the heaviest accumulations expected in eastern New York on Friday night.
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A group of men help push a sports car up a snow-covered street in the Old Port section of Portland, Maine, during a snow storm Friday.
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Two travelers catch the last train into Boston from the Andover, Mass., train station as snow falls Friday. The MBTA will suspend all transit service in the late afternoon due to the storm.
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A couple walks through a near-deserted Faneuil Hall Marketplace as snow falls on Friday.
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A man walks down the steps of Boston City Hall as snow falls on Friday.
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With snow accumulating on Route 93, cars head toward the New Hampshire border prior to a mandatory Massachusetts statewide driving ban in Andover, Mass., on Friday. Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick declared a state of emergency Friday and banned travel on roads as of 4 p.m.
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Live Well poll results from Feb 4
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A Walmart development boom appears to be brewing throughout Clark County, where the company plans to build at least one new "Neighborhood Market" grocery store and three more Supercenters to join its two stores in Vancouver and this Hazel Dell store.
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CIA Director nominee John Brennan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Thursday during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Lily, a baby Asian elephant, romps at the Oregon Zoo.
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Lily, a baby elephant born this winter at the Oregon Zoo, has been purchased by the zoo's nonprofit foundation.
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President George W. Bush walks with his father, President George H.W. Bush, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
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A warning sign flashes for motorists on the expressway into Boston as snow starts to fall on Friday.
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Morning rush hour pedestrians make their way to work on Delancey Street in New York on Friday.
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Sanitation workers use tractors to pile up salt at a depot Friday in New York. A storm poised to dump up to 3 feet of snow from New York City to Boston and beyond beginning Friday could be one for the record books, forecasters warned.
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A pedestrian walks through the snow in Washington Park on Friday in Albany, N.Y. Parts of the New York region still cleaning up from Superstorm Sandy are bracing for a winter storm that's expected to blanket the Northeast with heavy snow Friday and Saturday.
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Jack Percoco of Cambridge, Mass., reaches into depleted shelves for milk at a supermarket in Somerville, Mass., on Friday.
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Pedestrians cross a snow-covered street in Toronto on Friday. A blizzard of potentially historic proportions threatened to strike the Northeast has many cancellations at the three big airports in the New York area.
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TV monitors at Logan International Airport in Boston show canceled flights Friday morning. Some 3,700 flights in the Northeast have been canceled.
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Vehicles wait in line as gas is delivered to a station in Ellington, Conn., on Friday. Many stations in the area are out due to a pending storm.
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Andre Tranchemantague, left, and Will Guerette, ski on a snow-covered road as they make there way to a bar during the early stages of a snow storm on Friday in Portland, Maine. A snowstorm sweeping into Maine already has dumped half-a-foot of snow around Portland and contributed to a 19-car pileup.
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Cars are stuck in traffic as a winter storm arrives Fridayin Newington, N.H.
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