Images of the Day

---

Joseph Smith talks with his public defenders, Adam Tebrugge, left, and Steven Schaefer, right, during his hearing at the Sarasota County Judicial Center in Sarasota, Fla., Monday, Smith's lawyers raised his prolonged mental problems and drug abuse Monday in a bid to spare his life for the 2004 murder of Carlie Brucia, the 11-year-old whose abduction was caught on a car wash security camera.

---

Acting FEMA chief R. David Paulison is named as a defendant in the suit.

---

David P. Jackson, from New Orleans, carries some of his possessions to his room at the Pelican Haven Shelter in Shreveport, La., Monday. Monday marks the second wave of evacuees losing Federal Emergency Management Agency financing of their hotel rooms. FEMA promised the evacuees from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita that they will still receive federal rent assistance that they can put toward hotel stays or other housing. But the agency will no longer pay for their hotel rooms directly.

---

David Pokorney and JoLaine Jones share a love of dancing. They go dancing in Gainesville twice a month and take once-a-month honeymoons filled with dancing.

---

Florida junior forward Chris Richard says he still has his sights set on an SEC title and a high seed in the NCAA Tournament.

---

Ramona Roman installs a Valentine's Day greeting for customers Bob and Linda Gilchrist-White on the front yard of their northwest Gainesville home on Monday. Roman is starting a business called The Happy Lawn, in which she sets up lawn greetings announcing special events.

---

Cleveland's LeBron James drives to the basket against San Antonio's Nazr Mohammed during the third quarter Monday in Cleveland. James scored 44 points in the Cavaliers' 101-87 win.

---

Phillip Kellerman swims in the Northwood YMCA pool, which is heated to 82 degrees, as morning temperatures dip into the low 30s on Monday.

---