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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice walks with fellow Augusta National members at the practice facility. Rice became a member of Augusta National last year. (Jeff Janowski / Special to The Augusta Chronicle)
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Sgt. Chesty XIII, official mascot of the U.S. Marine Corps, right, stares down his successor Recruit Chesty, left, during training at Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., March 20. (Official Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Dengrier Baez).
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**FILE** Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator with the Environmental Protection Agency, speaks at a climate workshop sponsored by the Climate Center at Georgetown University in Washington on Feb. 21, 2013. (Associated Press)
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“When a youth’s confidential information is made public, our agency’s rehabilitative efforts are severely undermined,” wrote DYRS Director Neil Stanley. (The Washington Times)
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Former Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell saw firsthand how drilling in the Marcellus Shale helped revive long-depressed towns in parts of his state. He is trying to convert fellow Democrats.
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A Chinese health worker takes excrement samples from a chicken at a closed poultry market in Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu province on Saturday, April 6, 2013. Health officials believe humans are contracting the H7N9 bird flu virus through direct contact with infected fowl and say there's no evidence the virus is spreading easily between people. (AP Photo)
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Matthew Warren, the youngest child of the Rev. Rick Warren of the Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest, Calif., committed suicide, the church said in a statement on Saturday, April 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Saddleback Valley Community Church)
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At the University of Georgia, Bubba Watson competed in only one tournament in his senior season on the golf team. (University of Georgia)