Photos for March 19, 2013
Umpire Tim McClelland calls balls and strikes from behind the pitcher's mound.
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After admitting to putting too much pressure on himself last year, Dakota Clevidence has been off to a big start for the Heritage baseball team.
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Jordan Adam Criado, 52, expresses himself while entering an Alford plea to four counts of aggravated murder and one of arson in Jackson County Circuit Court on Tuesday in Medford, Ore. Criado admitted that he killed his wife in July 2011, but blamed her for the deaths of their four children. An Alford plea means that while he does not admit guilt, he acknowledged there was enough evidence to convict him.
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Clark Women's Basketball celebrate victory over Walla Walla. Photo taken by NWAACC, Tracy Swisher.
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Milwaukee Bucks' Monta Ellis (11) drives past Portland Trail Blazers' LaMarcus Aldridge during the second half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, March 19, 2013, in Milwaukee. The Bucks won 102-95. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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Students in Skyview High School's Be the Change Club, from left, Hannah Buckmaster, 17, Rabeka Ali, 16, Rachel Shirley, 16, and Jayden MacDonald, 16, talk to members of the media during the grand opening of Skyview's Care Closet. Club members and Life Skills students helped establish the Skyview Care Closet for students who need food and clothing assistance.
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Skyview High School students celebrate during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the grand opening of the school's Care Closet, established by the school's Be the Change Club and Life Skills students.
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Stephanie McGarvie, left, an art teacher at Skyview High School, talks about the school's new Care Closet, which was established by the school's Be the Change Club and Life Skills students. Despite the perception that Skyview's student population is affluent, about a third of the students qualify for free or reduced-price meals.
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Jorge Gonzales, left, and Tony Graham, independent contractors for United Van Lines, deliver a hyperbaric oxygen chamber Tuesday to the PeaceHealth Wound Healing Center in Vancouver.
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Joyce Garcia, from left, Tricia Walsh, Amy Lara, Robin Jones and Billy Kealiher -- all staff members with PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center Specialty Clinics -- take a closer look at a new hyperbaric oxygen chamber delivered Tuesday morning.
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Portland rock band Danava will perform March 23 at Dante’s in Portland.
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Portland rock band Danava will perform Saturday at Dante¿s in Portland.
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The chicken tamales at Sabor Mexicano in Vancouver’s Uptown Village.
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Captured former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein undergoes a medical examination in Baghdad on Dec. 14, 2003, in this image made from video.
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Flowers and a happy birthday balloon are placed at the tombstone of Army Sgt. Dale Brehm in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery on March 19, 2013, in Arlington, Va. Brehm died during the Iraq war.
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U.S. Army soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division are seated aboard a C-17 aircraft at Baghdad International Airport en route back to the United States on July 13, 2010. The soldiers, based at Fort Drum, N.Y., were headed home after nine months in Iraq as part of the U.S. drawdown of forces.
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Muntadhar al-Zeidi, an Iraqi journalist, throws a shoe at U.S. President George W. Bush during a Dec. 14, 2008, news conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Zeidi was discharged from prison on Sept. 14, 2009, after getting early release for good behavior.
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A U.S. soldier demonstrates access to a shaft used by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein before he was captured two days earlier, on a farm near Tikrit, northern Iraq on Dec. 15, 2003.
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U.S. President George W. Bush gives a thumbs up as he visits the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast on Thursday, May 1, 2003. Later in the day, he declared that major combat in Iraq was finished.
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U.S. Marines play football in Karabilah, Iraq, near the Syrian border, on Nov. 24, 2005, during Thanksgiving celebrations.
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Ryan Lamke of Washington, sits by the grave of his fellow U.S. Marine, Cpl. Benny G. Cockerham III, in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery on March 19, 2013, in Arlington, Va. Lamke visits his friends grave about once a month. Capt. Tyler Swisher, Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Chris Thompson, and Marine Lance Cpl. Kenneth Butler also died with Cocherham when their Humvee was attacked by an improvised explosive device.
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U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, take cover after a mortar attack during a sandstorm on a road south of Baghdad, Iraq on March 26, 2003.
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U.S. President George W. Bush, left, speaks with Spanish Prime Minster Jose Maria Aznar by telephone from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice at right on March 10, 2003. Bush and his top aides engaged in last-minute telephone diplomacy to world leaders in an uphill struggle to gain support for a U.N. resolution setting up war against Iraq.
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A U.S. Marine watches a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Firdaus Square in downtown Baghdad on April 9, 2003.
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U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell holds up a vial that he said could contain anthrax during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council at the United Nations headquarters on Feb. 5, 2003.
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A suspected al-Qaida member is detained in an Iraqi SWAT raid in Latifiyah, Iraq, on March 16, 2013. An al-Qaida-affiliated group in Iraq claimed responsibility for a carefully planned assault on the Justice Ministry in downtown Baghdad the previous week, less than a week before the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, showing how vulnerable the country remains to insurgent attacks.
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Flames erupt from a building hit with a TOW missile launched by soldiers of the Armyís 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in Mosul, Iraq, on July 21, 2003. Saddam Hussein's sons Qusay and Uday were killed in a gun battle as they resisted efforts by coalition forces to apprehend and detain them.
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Lt. Col. Garry Bush, in charge of the munitions demolition project, watches smoke after a planned explosion of 24 tons of munitions in a storage site next to the village of Aswalim, Iraq, about 100 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, on June 10, 2007.
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A volunteer puts flowers next to a cross at the Arlington West Iraq war memorial display on the beach next to the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, Calif., on May 27, 2006.
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Iraqi soldiers wave as a U.N. weapons inspector vehicle leaves the Al Taje military camp, 30 kilometers outside of Baghdad, after helping to carry out the destruction of four Al-Samoud 2 missiles on March 1, 2003.
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An Iraqi man celebrates on top of a burning U.S. Army Humvee in the northern part of Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, April 26, 2004.
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People carry an injured man from a damaged building after a car bomb exploded in central Baghdad, Iraq on Monday, killing at least 10 people, including three foreigners working to rebuild Iraq's power plants.
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A looter rests on a fountain in the lobby of a smoke filled Sheraton hotel in Basra, Iraq, on April 7, 2003. People ransacked the burning hotel after rocket propelled grenades struck the building according to British forces.
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Saddam Hussein, left, on Iraqi television on March 20, 2003; President Bush addresses the nation from the Oval Office at the White House on March 19, 2003.
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Smoke rises from the Trade Ministry in Baghdad on March 20, 2003, after it was hit by a missile during US-led forces attacks.
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An Iraqi man looks at his mother in a bus as others load luggage on the top of the vehicle bound for neighboring Syria at a bus station in Baghdad, Iraq on March 9, 2003. Bus lines increased their trips to Syria from four to 20 a day at this station, carrying passengers fleeing amid the threat of a US-led invasion as well as others headed to the holy Shiite Muslim shrine of Sayeda Zeinab in the Syrian capital.
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Eagles in the Northwest neighborhood. 3/09/13 around 2:30pm.
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A group of Washington state senators vowed Tuesday to increase funding for higher education by $300 million but declined to say how they would get the money at a time when lawmakers already are struggling to balance the budget.
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The chicken tamales and pozole at Sabor Mexicano in Vancouver’s Uptown Village.
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Robb Rosser With spring comes the dazzling flower show of our acid-loving rhododendrons and azaleas.
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Brazilian Cherry wood was the inspiration for Mannington's Jatoba vinyl flooring.
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The look of stone continues to be a design favorite, and Armstrong's Alterna Mesa Stone is designed to be an alternative to ceramic and stone tiles.
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Armstrong's LuxePlank is a good choice for high-moisture areas such as bathrooms and laundry rooms. It also works in kitchens.
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Mannington Modern luxury vinyl is a broad category that includes wood- and stone-look products with colors and textures good enough to fool the eye.
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Mannington's Adura line brings the look of wood, tile or stone in a variety of shapes, sizes, textures and installation options. (Courtesy Mannington/MCT)
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Luxury vinyl is water resistant and easy to clean, making it ideal for bathrooms.
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Argentine Catholic priest Julio Grassi talks to reporters as he leaves a courthouse after being found guilty of sexual abuse in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2009.
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Ector County, Texas, District Attorney Bobby Bland announces at a news conference Monday that the grand jury decided that no charges will be filed against the parents of adopted Russian 3-year-old Max Shatto. Shatto died Jan. 21 and his death was ruled accidental.
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Cypriot university students gather during a rally against the plan to seize a part of depositors' bank savings in their island, as riot police guard Cyprus' Consulate in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki on Tuesday.
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Cypriot university students hold a banner reads "Resistance" during a rally against a plan to seize a part of depositors' bank savings outside Cyprus' Consulate in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki on Tuesday.
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Cyprus' Finance Minister Michalis Saris leaves the Sheremetyevo airport after arriving in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday. Saris will meet with his Russian counterpart and officials tomorrow in Moscow.
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Cypriot university students gather during a rally against the plan to seize a part of depositors' bank savings in their island, as riot police guard Cyprus' Consulate in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki on Tuesday.
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Smoke rises after a car bomb attack in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday. A wave of apparently coordinated bombings rumbled across the Iraqi capital Tuesday morning, killing and wounding scores of people, police said.
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Volunteer Ron Goodwin showing a visiting youngster our bear skull in the Multnomah Falls Visitor Center as one of our exhibits for youngsters. Photo by Katie Goodwin
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People inspect a car destroyed in a car bomb attack close to one of the main gates to the heavily-fortified Green Zone, which houses major government offices and the embassies of several countries, including the United States and Britain in Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday.
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Defense attorney Ian Friedman, left, looks on as T.J. Lane makes and obscene gesture to the victims families in court Tuesday in Chardon, Ohio.
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T.J. Lane smirks as he listens to the judge during sentencing Tuesday in Chardon, Ohio. Lane was given three lifetime prison sentences without the possibility of parole Tuesday for opening fire last year in a high school cafeteria in a rampage that left three students dead and three others wounded.
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Dina Parmertor, mother of victim Daniel, speaks during the sentencing of T.J. Lane on Tuesday in Chardon, Ohio. Lane, was given three lifetime prison sentences without the possibility of parole Tuesday for opening fire last year in a high school cafeteria in a rampage that left three students dead and three others wounded. .
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University of Central Florida police Chief Richard Beary, right, shows an example of the assault rifle, along with explosive devices, found in the dorm room of James Oliver Seevakumaran, who died of an apparent suicide in the room Monday in Orlando, Fla. Watching are UCF president John Hitt, left, and Grant Heston, UCF associate vice-president of communications and public affairs.
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James Seevakumaran
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper will sign legislation Wednesday that sets limits on ammunition magazines and expands background checks for firearms, marking a Democratic victory in a state where gun ownership is a treasured right and Second Amendment debate has played out in the wake of two mass shootings.
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Tacoma is the first tiger in the U.S. to go through a nerve surgery to alleviate pain caused from hip dysplasia.
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Tacoma, a 13-year-old Siberian tiger, is shown in his enclosure at InSync Exotics animal preserve Monday in Wylie, Texas.
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Vicky Keahy, president of InSync Exotics, visits Tacoma, a 13-year-old Siberian tiger, in his enclosure at InSync Exotics animal preserve Monday in Wylie, Texas.
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Storage bunkers at the U.S. Army Depot in Hawthorne, Nev.
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