El Dorado's DeAndra Burns Jr., makes a leaping grab in the end zone against Little Rock Catholic at Memorial Stadium this season. Burns was named News-Times/Sports Alley Football Player of the Year for the 2022 season. The senior receiver recently signed to play at Arkansas State University.
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West Side Christian's Camille McKnight, Grace McNabb and Jenna McAdams have helped key the team's resurgence.
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The white growth on this oak is a conk, the fruiting body of a fungus that’s digesting the tree interior. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
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Nandina is a fast-spreading shrub native to Japan that some gardeners consider invasive. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
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A Pinnacle Mountain State Park interpreter will lead hikers on Sunday up the West Summit Trail. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Marcia Schnedler)
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A pig liver that has been "decelled" is held by a technician in a Micromatrix laboratory on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2022, in Eden Prairie, Minn. The first step for workers in this suburban Minneapolis lab is to shampoo away the pig cells that made the organ do its work, its color gradually fading as the cells dissolve and are flushed out. What’s left is a rubbery scaffolding, a honeycomb structure of the liver, its blood vessels now empty. (AP Photo/Andy Clayton-King)
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Jeff Ross, CEO of Miromatrix, leads a team working towards developing organs that may someday be used in humans at the headquarters on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2022, in Eden Prairie, Minn. “We essentially regrow the organ,” says Ross, CEO of Miromatrix. “Our bodies won’t see it as a pig organ anymore.” (AP Photo/Andy Clayton-King)
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Will Smith, right, hits presenter Chris Rock on stage while presenting the award for best documentary feature at the Oscars on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Homemade Oyster Crackers can be plain or flavored. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Kelly Brant)
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Leaving plenty of space between Homemade Oyster Crackers helps ensure crispy, crunchy crackers. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Kelly Brant)
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Riders on their last leg of the journey from South Dakota take off from Land of Memories to Reconciliation Park in Mankato, Minn., Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via AP)
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FILE - Boise State University students, along with people who knew the four University of Idaho students who were found killed in Moscow, Idaho, days earlier, pay their respects at a vigil held in front of a statue on the Boise State campus, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, in Boise, Idaho. The arrest of Bryan Christopher Kohberger in the Nov. 13, 2022 fatal stabbings of four University of Idaho students has brought relief to the small college town of Moscow, Idaho.(Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)
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FILE - Television journalist Barbara Walters attends the Metropolitan Opera season opening night gala performance at Lincoln Center on Sept. 22, 2008, in New York. Walters, a superstar and pioneer in TV news, has died, according to ABC News on Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. She was 93. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
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This satellite image made available by NOAA shows cloud cover over North America on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022 at 1:31 p.m. An arctic blast is bringing extreme cold, heavy snow and intense wind across much of the U.S. this week — just in time for the holidays. (NOAA via AP)
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This traffic video image released by Caltrans District 3 shows Highway 50 is closed from Ice House Road to Meyers in El Dorado County, Calif., due to flooding, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. A flood watch is in effect across much of Northern California through New Year's Eve. Officials warned that rivers and streams could overflow and urged residents to get sandbags ready. (Caltrans District 3 via AP)
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FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2019, file photo, the logo for JPMorgan Chase & Co. appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase are asking a federal court to throw out lawsuits that claim they helped Jeffrey Epstein abuse young women and maintain his sex-trafficking ring. The banks argue they provided routine services to Epstein, and the lawsuits fail to show that they were part of Epstein’s criminal sex trafficking ring. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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Two hikers head up a trailhead of Great Blue Hill, while one completes her hike from the summit, at the Blue Hills Reservation, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022, in Milton, Mass. First Day Hikes, that started in Massachusetts in 1992, have become a nationwide phenomenon. Thousands of people are expected to take part in First Day Hikes at hundreds of state parks in all 50 states this New Year's Day. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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