El Dorado's Charalyn Rester drives to the basket against White Hall. The Lady Wildcats are fighting for the league's No. 3 seed heading into the final week of the regular season.
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El Dorado's Dunte Maker stands on the podium with coaches James Faith, left, and Jimmy Johnson. Maker finished as the 5A state runner-up in the state wrestling tournament Saturday in Little Rock.
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Anastasia Manha, 23, lulls her 2-month-old son Mykyta, where she lives with her family members, after shelling by separatists forces in Novognativka, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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An instructor, right, shows a grenade during a training of members of a Ukrainian far-right group train, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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Place an asparagus bed where its tall fronds won't shade shorter vegetables. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Janet B. Carson)
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Moss makes a soft carpet for shady spots, but if you want to get rid of it, get rid of the shade, too. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Janet B. Carson)
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Arkansas's hot and humid summers complicate apple growing. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Janet B. Carson)
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“I think God is intentional in everything. There are times when things haven’t worked out, but I can see how it prepared me for something different.” -Carmen Portillo (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Cary Jenkins)
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“When you have a ratio of chocolate shell and the ganache inside and then maybe a little crunch all in one bite — it can be 10 different experiences. It’s a balance of chocolate and cream or fruit or a nut taste all in a tiny little bite.” -Carmen Portillo (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Cary Jenkins)
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Richard Mason, columnist, El Dorado
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Arkansas State Parks interpreter Charles Licciardi describes how to distinguish a Chinese holly tree by its distinctive leaves. Licciardi led a tour of the Arboretum on Saturday. (Matt Hutcheson/News-Times)
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Licciardi closed the tour with a look at the iconic Southern Magnolia, distinguished in part by its broad leaves and enveloping, domed canopy. (Matt Hutcheson/News-Times)
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Shortleaf pines, right, and Loblolly pines, left, are a frequent sight both at the South Arkansas Arboretum and across the state. The evergreen conifer trees continue to thrive during the winter. (Matt Hutcheson/News-Times)
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Licciardi talks about the deciduous American beech tree, recognizable in part by its bark that is often used for carved initials, which can remain for years. (Matt Hutcheson/News-Times)
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Photo by Michael Hanich Ron Askew, Searcy Harrell Community Service Award winner; Robyn Yarbro, General Manager of the Camden News, which was the Small Business of the Year Award Winner, Rick Walker of the Shine Shop, Small Business of the Year Award Winner; and Dwight Futrell, Vice President, and David Siggers, President of Spectra Technology, winner of Industry of the Year, pose with trophies at the Camden Chamber of Commerce Banquet. (Michael Hanich/Camden News)
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The Family Dollar logo is centered above one of its variety stores in Canton, Miss., Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. More than 1,000 rodents were found inside a Family Dollar distribution facility in Arkansas, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Friday, Feb. 18, 2022 as the chain issued a voluntary recall affecting items purchased from hundreds of stores in the South. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin holds a report at a news conference in San Francisco, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. Boudin's stunning assertion that police crime labs are using rape and sexual assault survivors' DNA without their consent to investigate unrelated crimes and storing the DNA indefinitely has shocked prosecutors nationwide, as sexual assault victims' groups decry the chilling effect it could have on people willing to report sexual assaults. (AP Photo/Olga R. Rodrigues)
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From left to right: Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., brief the media during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Karl Ritter)
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Public employees march to demand better salaries, adequate pensions and better employment conditions, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, Feb. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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Public works director Tim Westover shuts the gate to a levee designed to hold back the Little Colorado River in Winslow, Arizona, on Feb. 4, 2022. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently announced a flood control project in the city would receive $65 million in funding. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)
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In this Jan. 6, 2021, photo, President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in Washington. A federal judge on Feb. 18, 2022, rejected efforts by the former president to toss out lawsuits filed by lawmakers and two Capitol police officers, saying in his ruling that the former president's words "plausibly" may have led to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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Afghan refugees walk through an Afghan refugee camp at Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst, N.J., on Sept. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, the Office of Military Commissions building used for Periodic Review Board hearings is seen, on April 18, 2019, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The Biden administration has been quietly laying the groundwork to release prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center and at least move closer to being able to shut it down. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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Daunte Wright's parents, Aubrey Wright and Katie Wright, who also sometimes uses the name Katie Bryant, react after former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter was sentenced to two years in prison, Friday, Feb. 18, 2022 in Minneapolis. Potter was convicted in December of both first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in the April 11 killing of Wright, a 20-year-old Black motorist. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri )
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
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While families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting look on, attorney Josh Koskoff speaks during a news conference in Trumbull, Conn., Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. After agreeing to a $73 million lawsuit settlement with gun-maker Remington, the families of nine Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims say they are shifting their focus to ending firearms advertising. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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