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Kelly Olejnik, 22, scans the deserted alley behind the old buildings of downtown Sedalia, Mo., Friday night, Oct. 9, 2014. She’s convinced that some of the town is haunted and is determined to meet a ghost.

A helicopter flies over plumes of smoke to pour water on a wildfire about 60 miles northwest of Phoenix on Thursday. The fire began Wednesday near Yarnell, Ariz., a town that just three years before lost 19 elite firefighters in another blaze.

The Smith-Cotton High School football practices Wednesday Oct. 12, 2014, at the practice fields next to Jennie Jaynes Stadium in Sedalia, Mo. The team was preparing for the last game to ever be played at the historic stadium. Sixty-one years of Smith-Cotton tigers have played at Jennie Jaynes.

Connecticut Sun forward Jonquel Jones (35) and Phoenix Mercury forward Mistie Bass (8) battle for the ball during the second half of a WNBA basketball game, Wednesday, June 29, 2016, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Beatriz Costa-Lima) 

Columbia Fire Department Capt. Larry Curtis uses a Jaws of Life hydraulic cutter to remove the dashboard and steering wheel of an overturned Boone Quarries cement truck on S. Old Mill Creek Road in Columbia on June 1, 2015. The dashboard and steering wheel pinned the driver down making it difficult for firefighters to extricate him, Curtis said. The firefighters cut off the truck's roof before removing the dashboard and steering wheel and extricating him.

MU seniors Carleigh Cavender and Matt Ingram dance together at The Riveter's "Drink Up to Start-Ups" fundraising event March 6, 2015 in Columbia, Mo.

Columbia resident Guy Lanphere steers his boat while looking for carp along Moniteau Creek near Rocheport, Missouri, on June 10, 2015. Lanphere steered carefully and slowly so as not to scare any fish away.

Nine athletes competed in the sabre fencing competition of the Show-Me State Games on Saturday. The sabre competition was the first of three fencing competitions of the games, which also include foil and épée fencing.

Kyndall Simmons, 5, hugs her lady bug pillow as she walks into her first day of summer school Kindergarten at Alpha Hart Lewis Elementary in Columbia, Missouri, on June 8, 2015. Simmons was initially shy at first, but was soon relieved to see one of her friends in the same class.

After a neck-and-neck first half, freshman Mackenzie Ausfahl sits flanked by Skylar Schmauch and Taylor Wiseman as Coach Mathias Miller gives the team some stern words in Center, Missouri, on Feb. 16, 2016. Her sister, Madison, is a senior on the team and knows from experience that confidence is key. "I try to pick her back up and tell her to move on because as a freshman she doesn't have a lot of confidence in herself," she said.

Zach Emmendorfer walks through a field of wheat April 15, 2016 in De Kalb, Missouri. The farm he runs has been in his family for more than a century. 

Susan Contreras sits on her bed in a Phoenix-area shelter for victims of domestic violence on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016. Contreras is part of a unique program at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix that aims to assist abuse survivors who have suffered head trauma.

Navanna Washington lays on the street with her mother during the "Rally for Justice" on Friday, July 8, 2016, in Phoenix, Arizona. Several hundred people marched on downtown streets to protest the recent fatal shootings of black men by police.

In this Aug. 9, 2016 photo, neighborhood group goes door to door to speak to residents about recent shootings by a serial killer in Phoenix. The serial killer has killed seven people since March and wounded two, sowing terror in a blue-collar swath of Phoenix. Police are pleading for tips to help them catch their suspect, but many residents never report crime because they are immigrants fearing deportation.

Maria Antonieta Rios, 85, laughs as she sings along to a song from her childhood by Adoriniran Barbosa on Jan. 1, 2016 in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil. Luiz Rios, her son, played the guitar and sang with her. Antonieta was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2014. Her memory fades from day to day, but she always remembers every word of favorite song lyrics. She spends most days exchanging few words with the family that pass through her home, but when music starts to play she lights up.

The Smith-Cotton High School football practices Wednesday Oct. 12, 2014, at the practice fields next to Jennie Jaynes Stadium in Sedalia, Mo. The team was preparing for the last game to ever be played at the historic stadium. Sixty-one years of Smith-Cotton tigers have played at Jennie Jaynes.

The U.S. Army Golden Knights Gold parachute demonstration team performed at the Salute to Veterans Air Show on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-25, 2015 in Columbia, Missouri. Staff Sergeant Mike Koch and Sergeant First Class Jennifer Espinosa tell of the sense of falling through the air as they jump out of airplanes.

Zach Emmendorfer, 21, looks out the left window of his tractor before he makes a turn in the cornfield. This growing season is the first that Zach will plant without his grandfather. He has rouhgly 400 acres total, and planted corn in 200. He will plant nearly 115 more acres with soybeans, and the rest is pasture.

Protesters kneel before a wall of police officers on Friday, July 8, 2016, in Phoenix, Arizona. Several hundred protestors marched on downtown streets to protest recent fatal shootings nationwide of black men by police. Activists marched down 7th Street toward Interstate 10, but police blocked their access to the highway.

Erin Bush and Madison Ausfahl, laugh as Taylor Wilson makes funny faces in a selfie app on her iPhone Feb. 16, 2016. The trip from Kingdom City, Missouri, to Center, Missouri, took nearly an hour and half, so the players used the time to joke around, listen to music or nap.

Kyla Bertschinger shoots a free throw in the second half of a game against Mark Twain High School Center, Missouri, on Feb. 16, 2016. Bertschinger is a sophomore on the team, but has played on the varsity team since her freshman year and averages around 8 points-per-game.