Photos for July 3, 2022

Smackover's Taylor Darden has played for Sticks National softball team this summer. The sophomore will be a multi-sport athlete for the Lady Bucks next season.

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This image shows a recipe for watermelon feta salad topped with thinly sliced red onion and mint leaves. (Cheyenne Cohen via AP)

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Maryland meadow beauty or pale meadow beauty (Rhexia mariana) blooms statewide from June through early fall. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)

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Chewing insects have attacked this purple plum tree. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)

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Minor leaf damage from chewing insects should not endanger this young plum tree. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)

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These odd-looking lily flower spikes were neatly defoliated by hungry deer. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)

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Rose campion (Lychnis coronaria) is a biennial that can reseed itself. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Janet B. Carson)

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Alaskan glaciers are seen from a cruise ship in this photo contributed by Ricky Roberts.

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Alaskan glaciers are seen from a cruise ship in this photo contributed by Ricky Roberts.

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Alaskan glaciers are seen from a cruise ship in this photo contributed by Ricky Roberts.

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A boat floats between a snow-capped mountain in Alaska in this photo contributed by Ricky Roberts.

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Alaskan glaciers are seen from a cruise ship in this photo contributed by Ricky Roberts.

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Alaskan glaciers are seen from a cruise ship in this photo contributed by Ricky Roberts.

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A mountain in Alaska is pictured in this photo contributed by Ricky Roberts.

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An icy stream in Alaska is seen in this photo contributed by Ricky Roberts.

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A moose stands near a road in Denali National Park in this photo contributed by Ricky Roberts.

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Alaskan glaciers are seen from a cruise ship in this photo contributed by Ricky Roberts.

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Richard Mason, columnist, El Dorado

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Leslie Darden participates in the Hero’s Run, a half-marathon in Shreveport, Louisiana. Darden competed in the event in 2018. (Contributed)

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Bart Reed

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Ruth Catherine Parker McCann

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Pope Francis holds the crucifix as he celebrates a Mass on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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Although morning and early afternoon rain put a damper on activities at Summer on the Square Saturday in downtown El Dorado, the grillers participating in the SCA Double Steak Cook-Off did not let the adverse weather stop them. Prizes from $100-$1,000 were up for grabs in the competition and the chefs huddled under awnings and tents grilling up their best for the Steak Cookoff Association-approved contest. (Matt Hutcheson/News-Times)

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An architectural rendering shows what the South Arkansas Arts Center's new western exterior will look like after the Reaching Higher campaign's goals are met and the facility is renovated and expanded. (Courtesy of M R Designs/Special to the News-Times)

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Mahayana Landowne, of Brooklyn, N.Y., wears a "Lady Justice" costume as she marches past the Supreme Court during a protest for abortion-rights, Thursday, June 30, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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This booking photo provided by Pike County, Kentucky, jail shows Lance Storz. Two officers were killed when Storz. opened fire on police attempting to serve a warrant at a home in eastern Kentucky Thursday, June 30, 2022, authorities said. Several officers were shot at the scene in Floyd County. Police took Storz into custody late Thursday night, according to media reports. (Pike County, Kentucky, jail via AP)

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Abortion-rights and anti-abortion demonstrators gather outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years, a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. Abortion, guns and religion _ a major change in the law in any one of these areas would have made for a fateful Supreme Court term. In its first full term together, the court's conservative majority ruled in all three and issued other significant decisions limiting the government's regulatory powers. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

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FILE - Carlow Eduardo Espina places roses on a makeshift memorial at the site where officials found dozens of people dead in a semitrailer containing suspected migrants, Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in San Antonio. The deadliest smuggling attempt in U.S. history illustrated the limitations of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's massive border apparatus after 53 migrants were found dead or dying in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay File)

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FILE - A sailor with the St. Joseph Junior Foundation Summer Sailling School cruises past fishermen along the St. Joseph River in St. Joseph, Mich., Wednesday, June 15, 2022. The fast-changing coronavirus has kicked off summer in the U.S. with lots of infections but relatively few deaths compared to its prior incarnations. COVID-19 is still killing hundreds of Americans each day, but for many people the virus is not nearly as dangerous as it was. (Don Campbell/The Herald-Palladium via AP)

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People leave the port by boat to return their communities amid the arrival of Tropical Storm Bonnie in Bluefields, Nicaragua, July 1, 2022. Tropical Storm Bonnie has formed over the Caribbean as it heads for a quick march across Central America and potential development into a hurricane after reemerging in the Pacific. (AP Photo/Inti Ocon)

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FILE- Nikolas Cruz sits at the defense table during the third day of preliminary jury screening in the penalty phase of his trial, on April 6, 2022, at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The 12 jurors and 10 alternates chosen this past week to decide whether Cruz is executed will be exposed to horrific images and emotional testimony, but must deal with any mental anguish alone. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool, File)

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FILE - Boxes of the drug mifepristone line a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Medication abortions became the preferred method for ending pregnancy in the U.S. even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

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FILE - The GAMF Hungary car from Hungary competes during the first day of the 2015 World Solar Challenge near Katherine, Australia, on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015. Australia’s new government is putting climate change at the top of its legislative agenda when Parliament sits next month for the first time since the May 21 election, with bills to enshrine a cut in greenhouse gas emissions and make electric cars cheaper, a minister said on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

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Victor Rosenberg, 81, looks out of a broken window in his home destroyed by the Russian rocket attack in the city centre of Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, July 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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File-File photo shows view of pipe systems and shut-off devices at the gas receiving station of the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline and the transfer station of the OPAL (Ostsee-Pipeline-Anbindungsleitung - Baltic Sea Pipeline Link) long-distance gas pipeline in Lubmin, Germany, June 21, 2022. (Stefan Sauer/dpa via AP,file)

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