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Posted: 5/4/2013 12:13:29 PM EST
Holly Peterson, who plays professional women's tackle football for the Sacramento Sirens, holds a basketball in Elk Grove, Calif. on Friday, May 3, 2013. Peterson, who played college basketball at the University of California, Riverside, came out as a lesbian at age 15, when she was playing high school basketball. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Posted: 5/4/2013 12:13:29 PM EST
Holly Peterson, who plays professional women's tackle football for the Sacramento Sirens, is photographed on the field in Elk Grove, Calif. on Friday, May 3, 2013. Peterson made the decision to tell her family and friends that she’s a lesbian 14 years ago, when she was a sophomore in high school. "I was ready," says Peterson, who’s now 29. "I needed to tell someone." (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Posted: 2/1/2013 3:48:37 PM EST
This 2007 image provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society shows Bob Inman with the Wildlife Conservation Society holding part of an elk leg found outside a wolverine den built into a snowfield in the Spanish Peaks mountain range in Montana, as fellow wildlife researcher Tony McCue looks on. Wolverines need deep mountain snows to survive, but the government said Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 that anticipated warming temperatures in coming decades will shrink their habitat, putting the species in danger of extinction. (AP Photo/Wildlife Conservation Society)
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Posted: 1/25/2013 4:53:26 PM EST
This Oct. 19, 2010 photo released by Grand Canyon National Park showing park tourists photographing a park elk on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. People living at and visiting the Grand Canyon decades ago never encountered elk that now regularly create traffic jams, graze on the school’s recreational field and hotel lawns and aren’t too shy to display their power. (AP Photo/Michael Quinn, Grand Canyon National Park)
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Posted: 1/25/2013 4:53:26 PM EST
This photo taken Aug. 15, 2011and released by Grand Canyon National Park showing park tourists photographing a park elk as it was seen outside the Thunderbird Lodge, left, on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. People living at and visiting the Grand Canyon decades ago never encountered elk that now regularly create traffic jams, graze on the school’s recreational field and hotel lawns and aren’t too shy to display their power. (AP Photo/Michael Quinn, Grand Canyon National Park)
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Posted: 1/2/2013 10:43:26 AM EST
This undated image provided by Moonlight Basin Resort in Big Sky, Mont., shows a bloody mary served at the resort that’s made with vodka from Montana’s Vigilante distillery, topped off with a bit of locally sourced elk jerky. The cocktail is one of a number of specialty drinks offered for the apres ski crowd at resorts and hotels around the West. (AP Photo/Moonlight Basin Resort)
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Posted: 11/20/2012 12:23:27 AM EST
Utility pole and lines lie on the road north of Lincoln City, Ore., Monday Nov. 19, 2012 after being felled by trees knocked down by high winds. A storm bearing down on the Pacific Northwest has taken the life of an elk hunter on the Oregon Coast and hit the region with mudslides, high winds and mountain snow. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Brent Wojahn ) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT; THE MERCURY OUT; WILLAMETTE WEEK OUT; PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP OUT
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Posted: 11/19/2012 5:15:10 PM EST
Commercial vessels spray water to extinguish a platform fire on board an offshore oil platform operated by Houston-based Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations LLC. 20 miles offshore of Grand Isle, Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico November 16, 2012 in this handout photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard. REUTERS/U.S. Coast Guard/Handout
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Posted: 11/19/2012 5:15:10 PM EST
Commercial vessels spray water to extinguish a platform fire on board an offshore oil platform operated by Houston-based Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations LLC. 20 miles offshore of Grand Isle, Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico November 16, 2012 in this handout photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard. REUTERS/U.S. Coast Guard/Handout
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Posted: 11/18/2012 11:24:48 AM EST
Commercial vessels spray water to extinguish a platform fire on board an offshore oil platform operated by Houston-based Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations LLC. 20 miles offshore of Grand Isle, Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico November 16, 2012 in this handout photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard. REUTERS/U.S. Coast Guard/Handout
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Posted: 11/18/2012 11:24:48 AM EST
Commercial vessels spray water to extinguish a platform fire on board an offshore oil platform operated by Houston-based Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations LLC. 20 miles offshore of Grand Isle, Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico November 16, 2012 in this handout photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard. REUTERS/U.S. Coast Guard/Handout
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Posted: 11/16/2012 5:29:43 PM EST
Commercial vessels spray water to extinguish a platform fire on board an offshore oil platform operated by Houston-based Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations LLC. 20 miles offshore of Grand Isle, Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico November 16, 2012 in this handout photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard. REUTERS/U.S. Coast Guard/Handout
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Posted: 11/16/2012 4:50:37 PM EST
Rescue crew surrounds an oil platform which exploded early this morning in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana, November 16, 2012. An oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico operated by Houston-based Black Elk Energy burst into flames on Friday, leaving at least two people missing and badly injuring several others, U.S. and Louisiana officials said. The fire has been extinguished, Black Elk spokeswoman Leslie Hoffman said. She said an emergency response is under way, but declined further comment, saying the company will issue a statement later Friday. REUTERS/Sean Gardner
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Posted: 11/6/2012 11:23:39 PM EST
Tammy Duckworth, the Democratic nominee for the Illinois' 8th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives greets fellow veteran Octavia Mitchell in Elk Grove Village, Ill., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Duckworth, an Iraq War Veteran, served as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot and suffered severe combat wounds, losing both of her legs. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)
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Posted: 10/27/2012 12:18:22 PM EST
In this Oct. 26, 2012, photo, Ami Bera, the Democratic candidate for the California's 7th Congressional district, is seen in his campaign office Elk Grove, Calif. Bera is challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Dan Lungren. Lungren knows what it's like to have a big bull's eye plastered on his back. The Democratic Party and labor and environmental groups have spent $4.7 million on TV commercials and other efforts to unseat the nine-term Republican congressman. Bera poses next to a chart showing how much he has received in weekly "grassroots" contributions. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Posted: 10/27/2012 12:18:21 PM EST
In this Oct. 26, 2012, photo, Ami Bera, the Democratic candidate for the California's 7th Congressional district is seen at his campaign office Elk Grove, Calif. Bera is challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Dan Lungren. Lungren knows what it's like to have a big bull's eye plastered on his back. The Democratic Party and labor and environmental groups have spent $4.7 million on TV commercials and other efforts to unseat the nine-term Republican congressman from California. The race has attracted large campaign contributions from outside the state. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Posted: 10/27/2012 12:18:21 PM EST
In this Oct. 26, 2012, photo, Ami Bera, the Democratic candidate for the California's 7th Congressional district is seen at his campaign office Elk Grove, Calif. Bera is challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Dan Lungren. Lungren knows what it's like to have a big bull's eye plastered on his back. The Democratic Party and labor and environmental groups have spent $4.7 million on TV commercials and other efforts to unseat the nine-term Republican congressman from California. The race has attracted large campaign contributions from outside the state. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Posted: 10/9/2012 7:03:20 PM EST
This June 2007 family photo provided by the Weiler/Meyers family shows, Greg Weiler at his high school graduation from Elk Grove High School, in Elk Grove Village, Ill. Wieler who has a a long history of mental illness has been charged with plotting to attack dozens of churches in Oklahoma with home made Molotov cocktails. Weiler’s parents both committed suicide, and Weiler has battled drug addiction and “a lot of mental illnesses” that led to a suicide attempt in the eighth grade, said his cousin Johnny Meyers. Meyers' parents served as legal guardians for Weiler after the death of his parents. He said family members in suburban Chicago believe Weiler must have stopped taking his medication and planned to go to Oklahoma to see him. (AP Photo/courtesy the Weiler/Meyers family)
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Posted: 10/9/2012 7:03:20 PM EST
This June 2007 family photo provided by the Weiler/Meyers family shows, Greg Weiler, center with his legal guardians, aunt Joanne Meyers, and uncle Chris Meyers at his high school graduation from Elk Grove High School, in Elk Grove Village, Ill. Wieler who has a a long history of mental illness has been charged with plotting to attack dozens of churches in Oklahoma with home made Molotov cocktails. Weiler’s parents both committed suicide, and Weiler has battled drug addiction and “a lot of mental illnesses” that led to a suicide attempt in the eighth grade, said his cousin Johnny Meyers. Meyers' parents served as legal guardians for Weiler after the death of his parents. He said family members in suburban Chicago believe Weiler must have stopped taking his medication and planned to go to Oklahoma to see him. (AP Photo/courtesy the Weiler/Meyers family)
