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Photos for October 13, 2008
Nadia and Keira Yang, 2-year-old twins, celebrate with the Jayhawks. They live in Dallas and are the granddaughters of Kansas native Margie Ensign Yang, an Austin, Texas, resident who is the cousin of Nancy Bonner, Lawrence. Bonner submitted the photo.
Natalie Beiter, 7, shows off her Renaissance Festival costume. Her mother, Sandy Beiter, submitted the picture.
Anna Stubblefield is the new principal at Central Junior High School, 1400 Mass.
Betsy Six, right, shares a laugh with her youngest son, Will, 3, while her husband, Steve Six, unpacks groceries. Betsy Six is president of the Hillcrest School Parent Teacher Organization and also works for Kansas University’s School of Law.
Betsy Six, center, and children Henry, 6, Sam, 8, and Emily, 10, play basketball at their Lawrence home. Six volunteers at Hillcrest School, where three of her children attend, and also is an instructor at Kansas University’s School of Law.
Travis Evans and his two sons, Jackson, 3, and Travis, 1, enjoy time in their backyard connecting with nature. The family would like to adopt more environmentally friendly practices, but big-ticket items like a hybrid car are on hold until the economy stabilizes.
The one thing that Abby Olker, 13, did ask her parents for was a dog, and she got her wish. Here she is with her new pal Wrigley.
Abby Olker, 13, an eighth-grader at West Junior High, doesn't ask for a whole lot from her parents, but she does have a hand-me-down phone from her mother, without the texting function.
The Nichols family got a bicycle trailer about a year ago and now use it to take family rides together. Loading up for a ride, from left, are Tess Nichols, 3, her sister, Maeve, 18 months, and their mother, Eliza Nichols.
In this file image released by Summit Entertainment, Kristen Stewart as "Bella," left, and Robert Pattinson as "Edward" are shown in a scene from “Twilight.” Dead-but-still-talking characters are all over popular culture these days.
Yale University employee Geoffrey Little looks at an early edition of Noah Webster’s Dictionary at the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. Webster’s 250th birthday will be observed this week.
Robert Dillon points to the upstairs bedroom in Akron, Ohio, where neighbor Addie Polk, age 90, is believed to have shot herself. Rather than face eviction on foreclosure, Polk apparently shot herself in the chest when deputies came to her neatly kept home on Oct. 1.
river otters on a log in the Kaskaskia River near Carlyle, Ill., are shown in this file photo from 1995. The Nebraska state Game and Parks Commission is considering introducing river otters to parts of Nebraska’s Republican River. Otters are native to Nebraska and were a common sight to early explorers of the state, but unregulated trapping caused them to mostly disappear in the early 1900s.
Oklahoma State’s Dez Bryant, left, and DeMarcus Conner celebrate after defeating Missouri, 28-23. The victory Saturday in Columbia, Mo., derailed the Tigers’ national-title hopes and propelled OSU to No. 8 in the latest Associated Press poll.
Los Angeles Dodgers Hiroki Kuroda, left, and Casey Blake, right, celebrate with Russell Martin after Martin and Blake scored on a three-run RBI triple by Blake DeWitt. The Dodgers defeated the Phillies, 7-2, on Sunday in Los Angeles to cut Philadelphia’s lead in the NLCS to 2-1.
Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub (8) scores the winning touchdown on a three-yard run. The Texans beat the Dolphins, 29-28, on Sunday in Houston for their first victory of the season.
Oklahoma tight end Jermaine Gresham (18) and running back DeMarco Murray bum after the Longhorns’ 45-35 victory over OU Saturday in Dallas.
Texas quarterback Colt McCoy, in photo at left, celebrates after the Longhorns’ 45-35 victory over OU Saturday in Dallas.
The OZ Museum in Wamego is among the locales your family can visit on one tank of gasoline.
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