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Travelers hosts baby shower for 40 military wives

CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) — The Travelers Championship golf tournament has served as host for a giant baby shower.

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Oly sprinter Campbell-Brown suspended amid probe

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Veronica Campbell-Brown’s agent insists one of the cornerstones of Jamaica’s wide-ranging sprint success “is not a cheat,” even though the test results disagree.

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Car won’t start but Johnson still wows school kids

NASCAR auto racing driver Jimmie Johnson smiles during a visit to Chase Avenue Elementary Tuesday, June 18, 2013, in El Cajon, Calif. Ready to thrill a few hundred school kids as part of a visit tied to his Jimmie Johnson Foundation/Lowe's Toolbox for Education Champions Grant, the hometown hero hopped into the car to fire up the engine, but the battery was dead. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — Ready to thrill a few hundred school kids, Jimmie Johnson hopped into a replica of his No. 48 car to fire up the engine.

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North Carolina ousts Tigers from CWS with 4-2 win

LSU right fielder Mark Laird climbs the wall to see a two-run home run hit by North Carolina's Brian Holberton land in the stands in the first inning of an NCAA College World Series elimination baseball game in Omaha, Neb., Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Ted Kirk)

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An LSU team that came to the College World Series as one of the top offensive clubs in the nation left town wondering how it could have scored only three runs in two losses.

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100K protesters flood Brazilian streets in protest

A demonstrator holds up a Brazilian flag in front of a group of protestors gathered in the main plaza of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Some of the biggest demonstrations since the end of Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship have broke out across this continent-sized country, uniting multitudes frustrated by poor transportation, health services, education and security despite a heavy tax burden. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)

SAO PAULO (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators flooded a square in Brazil’s economic hub, Sao Paulo, on Tuesday evening for the latest in a historic wave of protests against the shoddy state of public transit, schools and other public services in this booming South American giant.

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