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 Golden glove boxer Ricardo Rios, 19, traisn for the MGGA pre SuperBowl fight night at the Golden Glove Gym Thursday February 3, 2011.  Golden glove boxer Ricardo Rios, 19 right, spars with Jose Covarrubias, left. Golden glove boxers Jordan Shimmell, 22, trains for the MGGA pre SuperBowl fight night at the Golden Glove Gym.Boxers Craig Schwallier, left, and Gerhart Braho, right, exercise Golden Glove Gym.


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 Michigan Army National Guard from the 1-119th Field Artillery fire the 19 gun salute at the inauguration of Governor Rick Snyder at the Michigan State Capitol Building. Governor Rick Snyder, center, is sworn in as the 48th Governor of Michigan at the State Capitol Building by the Chief Justice of the State of Michigan Marilyn Kelly, left, Saturday January 1, 2011. Four A-10 Thunderbolt II Ground Attack aircraft from the 127th Fighter Wing at Selfridge Air National Guard Base fly over the Michigan State Capitol Building at the inauguration of Governor Rick Snyder. Kimberly Batson,...


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 Ottawa Hills senior basketball player Dyann Wiley photographed at Ottawa Hills High School. Ruth Stegeman is leaving her job after 19 years as the Executive Director of the Disability Network/Lakeshore to a new job as a partner in a consultant. Rockford hockey player Mike VanderVelde. Chris Cameron the Executive Director of Silent Observer poses by a home that is being repaired after fire damage, Silent Observer helped catch the man who started the fire. Entrepreneur Mayra Martinez, 29, is preparing to open her families third location of Garibaldi restaurant, Taqueria,...


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 Chet Maxlow, 16 lower right, reaches out The American Horse sculpture by Nina Akamu at the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park decorated for the Christmas and Holiday Traditions Around the World Exhibit which will be on display until January 9.Spectators drive beneath arches of Christmas lights at the NiteLites Drive-Thru Christmas lights show at the home of the Whitecaps 5/3 Ballpark Thursday December 23, 2010. The show is made of about one million lights and has a one mile long circuit.Christmas is over, but I am trying to change the definition of holiday season, so that holiday...


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 Professional Bull Riders of the PBR prepare before riding at Van Andel Arena Saturday January 8, 2011.  Bull Rider competitor Levi Schmucker falls off of Glory Day. Red Bull chases Professional Bull Rider competitor Nic Lica after Lica fell off.Bull Rider John Braska rides Slim Prospect out of the gate.This was one my all-time favorite assignments because they had a "shark cage" inside the ring with the bulls, and they let me photograph from inside of it.  None of the bulls charged the cage--but they could have.


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