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Heavy rain will replace the heat and humidity 05/13/2014 02:40pm • WASHINGTON - If you've loved our recent summertime heat, don't get used to it quite yet. Seasonable May weather will eventually make its return next week. For now, though, heavy rain is on the way. Thursday A backdoor cold front that dropped through the region on Wednesday will lift to the north a Equality or immorality? A weekend's LGBT moments 05/13/2014 01:04am • JESSE WASHINGTON AP National Writer It was an eventful weekend: A gay American football player kissed his boyfriend on national TV after being drafted by the National Football League; gay marriage arrived in the Bible Belt; a bearded cross-dresser won one of the biggest TV song competitions in the w 'Dukes of Hazzard' star goes Americana with music fest 05/12/2014 02:57pm • WASHINGTON -- Whip out the banjo. Former congressman and "Dukes of Hazzard" actor Ben Jones is bringing a little bit of country to the D.C. region this weekend. The Rappahannock Americana Music Festival debuts Saturday in Washington, Va., and features live bluegrass, folk, country and roots b Everything old was in bloom again at Sweetlife Festival 05/12/2014 11:46am • COLUMBIA, MD. -- Everything old was new again at the Sweetlife Festival held at Merriweather Post Pavillion over the weekend. The music and food festival, now in its fifth year and billed as a "party with a purpose", is curated by Sweetgreen, a local organic farm-to-table salad shop. What s Bethune-Cookman sweeps PGA Minority Collegiate 05/11/2014 08:50pm • PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) -- Bethune-Cookman swept the men's and women's titles for the second straight year Sunday in the PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship.Bethune-Cookman won its seventh title in the Division I men's competition and its tournament-record 11th in the women's division, compl Brazilians hit by sticker fever as World Cup nears 05/11/2014 04:22pm • TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) -- World Cup sticker frenzy has swept Brazil like never before.Brazilians have long been avid fans of World Cup sticker albums. This year, however, there's added motivation with soccer's showcase event starting at home on June 12.Everybody is talking stic Hamilton wins 4th straight race at Spanish GP 05/11/2014 02:33pm • JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MONTMELO, Spain (AP) -- Mercedes teammates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg sped away to their fourth straight one-two finish at the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday in a dominant performance that does not bode well for the rest of the Formula One field.Hamilton took off fr 'Savor' beer tasting arrives in D.C. 05/11/2014 01:16pm • WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of craft beer fans got their fix in the nation's capital this weekend. SAVOR, billed as "an American craft beer & food experience," was held Friday and Saturday nights at the National Building Museum, and featured 70 craft brewers from here and across the country. "We'r U. of Richmond: 2 athletic staffers on Va. balloon 05/11/2014 01:20am • LARRY O'DELL Associated Press DOSWELL, Va. (AP) -- A University of Richmond women's basketball assistant coach and team staff member were the passengers aboard a hot air balloon that drifted into a power line, burst into flames and crashed in Virginia.University administrators said in a news release Brazil holds test events at 2 World Cup stadiums 05/11/2014 12:01am • TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) -- Brazilian organizers held test events at two of the problematic World Cup stadiums, including the one hosting the tournament's opening game next month in Sao Paulo.Nearly 20,000 people attended Saturday's exhibition between past and present Corinthians Search continues for 3rd body in Va. balloon crash 05/10/2014 05:10pm • LARRY O'DELL Associated Press DOSWELL, Va. (AP) -- A second body was recovered Saturday from the crash of a hot air balloon carrying three that drifted into a power line and burst into flames in front of hundreds of horrified spectators.More than 100 searchers were called in to scour the woods and f Kaymer leads Spieth by 1 at Players Championship 05/10/2014 03:48am • DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Martin Kaymer and Jordan Spieth both lowered their expectations at The Players Championship, for different reasons.Kaymer was coming off a record-tying round on the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass, becoming only the fourth player to shoot 6 Kaymer takes 1-shot lead over Spieth at Players 05/10/2014 03:20am • DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Martin Kaymer and Jordan Spieth are having a blast at The Players Championship -- one because he's playing good golf again, the other because that's all he's been doing.Kaymer followed his record-tying 63 on the Stadium Course on the TPC S Another weekend off for Mickelson 05/09/2014 08:44pm • DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Phil Mickelson can't seem to see the shots. He can't picture his putts going into the hole. And for the second big tournament this year, the only thing he will see of the final two rounds will be on television.Mickelson only made three bir Martin Kaymer stretches lead at Sawgrass 05/09/2014 06:46pm • DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Martin Kaymer treated Friday as if it were a new day. He wound up in a familiar spot with a 3-under 69 that stretched his lead in The Players Championship.Kaymer rolled in two long birdie putts, made two good par saves and capped off anoth