A firefighter monitors as a helicopter drops water on the Hughes Fire in Castaic, Calif., Wednesday.
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Penn Hills’ Aiden Thompson dunks over Hampton defenders during their game on Wednesday, at Penn Hills. Penn Hills won, 51-46, in overtime.
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Migrating cranes flock at sunrise in Hula Lake conservation area, north of the Sea of Galilee, northern Israel, Thursday.
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Penn Hills’ Aiden Thompson (right) and Cody Hunt pressure Hampton’s Andrew Butler during their game on Wednesday, at Penn Hills.
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Karen, center left, and Wayne McKay photograph themselves with an endangered plant known as the “corpse flower” for its putrid stink, at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney, Australia, Thursday.
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Quaker Valley’s Harper Sipes beats Keystone Oaks’ Jeremy Wagner in a 133-pound bout during the Allegheny County Wrestling Championship Friday, at Fox Chapel Area High School.
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Franklin Regional’s Katherine Yaniga drives to the basket against Penn Hills on Wednesday, at Penn Hills.
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Quaker Valley’s Bruce Anderchak beats North Alleghany’s’ Charlie LaQuatra in the 114-pound bout in the Allegheny County Wrestling Championship Saturday, at Fox Chapel Area High School.