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A 21-year-old man who drove his SUV into a streetcar tunnel at 5 a.m. last week in Toronto had a simple explanation: bad GPS instructions. A transit official told The Globe and Mail that it wasn’t unprecedented for a vehicle to stray into a tunnel, but not 2,600 feet, as this one did. The mishap jammed streetcar routes for hours. And getting the SUV back to the street wasn’t easy — workers had to summon a crane to reel it out. (EXPRESS)

A council member in Overtornea, Sweden, wants to list sex as an officially approved activity for civil servants during their paid lunch break. PerErik Muskos said he made “a serious and formal” proposal last week to add sex to the list of acceptable activities, which also include going to the gym or getting a massage. He said potential benefits include improving morale and increasing the population of the town of about 4,500. (AP)

A martial artist in Luoyang, China, is trying to build awareness of his unusual brand of kung fu: taking repeated blows to the groin to address male health problems such as erectile dysfunction. Master Wei Yaobin said “Iron Crotch Kung Fu” involves repeatedly whacking himself or his students with a fist, foot or even a brick, UPI reported last week. He says it increased his wellness in his late 60s. (EXPRESS)

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They’re drooling to get in THE DISTRICT He had bounded, tongue lolling, past chalk-white headstones and poked his snout into the pool of still water on Mausoleum Row. But when he came at twilight to Congressional Cemetery’s south end, a lonely bottomland packed with the remains of dead children, even Oliver the dog slowed his gait to a contemplative stroll. “It just makes me really happy to be able to see him run around like this,” said Claudia Rauch, a Capitol Hill resident. Rauch, 36, and her brindle Lab mix had just been admitted to what in recent years has become one of D.C.’s most exclusive clubs: Congressional Cemetery’s K9 Corps, a group of about 600 people and 770 dogs with privileges to roam the cemetery’s 35 acres. Congressional Cemetery was established in 1807 on the west bank of the Anacostia River. Its permanent occupants — including J. Edgar Hoover and Marion Barry Jr. — lack the luster of the presidents and astronauts buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

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D.C.’s most exclusive club? Congressional Cemetery’s K9 Corps.

John White watches as several dogs play in Congressional Cemetery, where the membership fees range from $285 to $385 annually.

But if it is still not a top-tier destination for the dead, Congressional has become fashionable among the dog-loving living. Once admitted, members pay $285 to $385 annually depending on how many dogs they own, and must periodically volunteer, said Paul Williams, president of the Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery. Some of these dog walkers have reserved spots before adopting a dog. Such was the strategy

“My mom’s from New Orleans, and there’s just sort of a tradition there of cemeteries being really cool places.” CLAUDIA RAUCH, a Capitol Hill resident who is part of Congressional Cemetery’s K9 Corps. Rauch and her brindle Lab mix, Oliver, had come off a waiting list of 500 with an average wait time of around four years.

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for Brynn Barnett, a Hill East resident who anticipated that her neighborhood cemetery would appeal to her Cavachon, Harley. “I knew I was getting a dog,” said Barnett, who joined in 2011. “So I went ahead and signed up.” The K9 Corps originated in the late 1970s, when a small group of Hill East residents began walking their dogs as a kind of informal citizens’ patrol in what was then a derelict property, Williams said. Last year, club dues and waitlist fees totaled $216,000, nearly one-quarter of the cemetery’s annual revenue. Williams said cemetery caretakers from across the country approach him at industry conferences, fascinated by the coexistence of dogs and the dead. “They’re initially very skeptical. They’re like, ‘We ban dogs. We don’t even allow photographs. No way,’ ” Williams said. “And then they see the finances, and their heads start spinning.” Rules are in place to preserve its identity as hallowed ground. Humans must pick up after their pets. Balls and Frisbees are not allowed. “It’s not a dog park. It’s a cemetery,” Barnett said. PETER JAMISON (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Answer to Zika tests’ failure lies in solution THE DISTRICT When Anthony Tran took over D.C.’s public health lab late last year, he had a feeling something was wrong with its testing for the Zika virus. He had just come from the public health lab in New York City, where technicians had been finding markers for Zika in the blood of arriving travelers almost every day. In D.C., the same test was negative — every time. Soon, U.S. health officials joined in Tran’s concern: Samples supplied by the federal government of the frightening mosquito-borne virus that were tested in the lab as a control were appearing as if they contained no virus. Tran halted testing and, with help from analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, traced the problem to a mistake that any high school chemistry student could understand. There were two types of

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At least nine pregnant women in D.C. were caught in last year’s faulty testing for Zika, officials say.

solution D.C. could have purchased to conduct a phase of the test. One bottle came marked with a “D,” for diluted, and the other with a “U,” for undiluted. Lab workers had purchased the diluted version, Tran said, and then mistakenly watered it down as if it was the more concentrated one, weakening the ability to detect for Zika. For a public health lab to commit such an error once would be an embarrassment in the highstakes testing of Zika, which has

potentially devastating consequences for pregnant women, scientists and federal health officials say. That the District lab repeated the mistake daily, and without anyone catching it for more than six months, amounts to a more systemic and worrisome failure, experts said. “A relatively inexperienced staff and a lack of leadership — that’s a bad combination,” said Kelly Wroblewski, director of infectious diseases for the Association of Public Health Laboratories, which works to safeguard the integrity of public health labs nationwide. “The positive here is that the lab does have new leadership and he caught the error quickly.” At least nine pregnant women in the nation’s capital were caught in the faulty testing between July and December of last year, D.C. officials said Thursday. The women were told they did not have Zika, while new testing by a CDC lab in Colorado shows that the women did have antibodies that could signal the presence of the virus. AARON C. DAVIS (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Metro looks at naming rights for revenue A Metro board discussion of the budget Thursday led to tense exchanges, including the suggestion by board member Tom Bulger, who represents D.C., that the agency consider selling the naming rights to stations — similar to action undertaken by the Los Angeles County Metro system late last year to avoid long-term operating deficits. Bulger said that he had asked staff to look into the possibility of selling naming rights. “We’ve started seeing … the scraping of the bottom of the barrel,” Bulger said. “I’m worried.” (TWP)

A teacher at a high-performing D.C. charter school was arrested Friday on charges of child sex abuse, police and school officials aid. Police said Saturday that Manuel Garcia Fernandez, 35, had sexual contact on multiple occasions with two female victims and one male victim from Aug. 17, 2016, to Feb. 6, 2017. He was charged with three counts of second-degree child sexual abuse. Fernandez taught at the Northeast campus of the Latin American Montessori Bilingual Public Charter School. (TWP)

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local VIRGINIA His big, wooden gavel temporarily stolen, Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam resorted to tap-taptapping the Virginia Senate into session with a tiny plastic mallet Saturday, when lawmakers passed a state budget with near-unanimous support. It was a fitting start to the final day of an understated General Assembly session in which most hot-button bills died early and differences over the state’s spending plan were relatively minor. With just one “no” vote between the House and Senate, the

two chambers voted for a budget that covers a $1.2 billion shortfall; provides long-sought raises for state employees, troopers and teachers; and boosts funding for K-12 education. This year — one in which all 100 House seats and three statewide offices are up for election — the legislature spent its last day on work that was important but notably lacking in drama. Among the bills pushed through Saturday were those aimed at reforming the state’s economic development arm and getting the city of Alexandria to stop

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Virginia closes $1.2B budget hole

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flushing raw sewage into the Potomac River by 2025. The budget makes adjustments to the two-year, $105 billion spending plan passed last year. The legislature provided more money for raises and K-12 education than the proposal Gov. Terry McAuliffe made in December, when the state’s finances looked bleaker. The plan approved Saturday includes a 3 percent raise for state employees and an even bigger boost to state police. It also provides the state’s share of a 2 percent raise for teachers. LAURA VOZZELLA (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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NEW DELHI Anupam Singh, a master’s student, once dreamed of coming to the United States for his Ph.D. studies. But Wednesday’s seemingly racially charged shooting of two Indian men in Kansas reaffirmed his growing belief that the U.S. isn’t a hospitable place for foreign students. “I would be scared to study in the U.S.,” he said Saturday outside a tea stall at the Indian Institute of Technology. “Did you read the newspapers yesterday? Two Indians were shot.” A Navy veteran who had allegedly been intoxicated was

charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of two Indian software engineers in a crowded bar in Olathe, Kan. The assailant reportedly shouted, “Get out of my country!” One man died, and the second was injured. A patron who intervened also was hurt. The possible hate crime has prompted anger in India and concern that the Trump-era United States is no longer a safe place for its thriving community of visiting Indian students, scholars and tech workers. The father of Alok Madasani, 32, the Indian injured in the attack, appealed Friday from the Indian city of Hyderabad to “all the parents in India” not to send their children to the U.S. under “present circumstances.”

MAHESH KUMAR A. (AP)

Kansas shooting felt in India

Jaganmohan Reddy, father of Alok Madasani, who was injured in a Kansas shooting, speaks to media.

The number of international students at U.S. universities topped 1 million last year, according to government data,

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with the number of Indians up 14 percent, to 206,584. In light of President Trump’s immigration stance, Indians have said they are uneasy about potential limitations on student permissions as well as H-1B visas, the foreign visas for highly skilled workers. The engineers who were shot — Madasani and Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32 — were admitted to work for a global tech company on H-1B visas after completing graduate studies in the U.S. “I used to think of America as a place where there is greater racial equality than exists in India,” said Dhriti Ahluwalia, 26, who wants to study in a public policy program in the U.S. “Now people are afraid. ... There is racism.”

NATIONAL SECURITY

DHS report disputes threat from 7 countries Department of Homeland Security analysts found insufficient evidence that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries included in President Trump’s travel ban pose a terror threat to the U.S. A draft document obtained Friday concludes that citizenship is an “unlikely indicator” of terror threats to the U.S. and that few people from the countries listed in the ban — now blocked by a court — have staged attacks or been involved in terrorismrelated activities in the U.S. since Syria’s civil war began in 2011. (AP) WHITE HOUSE

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CNN, NYT, other media barred from briefing The White House blocked several news organizations from attending an informal briefing Friday, a rare move that came amid President Trump’s escalating war against the media. White House press secretary Sean Spicer banned reporters from CNN, The New York Times, Politico, the Los Angeles Times and BuzzFeed from attending a “gaggle,” a non-televised briefing, but gave access to a number of other reporters, including those representing conservative outlets. (TWP)

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Barack Obama can’t run for president again in the U.S., but how about France? A guerrilla campaign called Obama17 launched a petition and put up 500 posters of the former U.S. president around Paris last weekend to try to entice Obama to run for office in France, CNN reported. Some people even began researching ways to get around the problem that Obama isn’t French. (EXPRESS)

MOSCOW | People carrying flags of opposition movements march Sunday to mark two years since opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down outside the Kremlin. Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, was a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The memorial protest was the largest opposition gathering since a similar march for Nemtsov in 2016. Organizers put the number of participants at just over 15,000.

Iraqi prime minister: Air force carried out first airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, with success

At least 42 people were killed Saturday in the western Syrian city of Homs after al-Qaedalinked militants attacked two security facilities. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said bombers blew themselves up and gunmen opened fire outside the headquarters of general and military intelligence, two of the most fortified complexes in the area. (TWP)

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Vatican warns it will ‘protect’ pope’s image

Police stand next to a pickup truck that slammed into a crowd Saturday at a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans.

Police: Drunk motorist hit crowd at Mardi Gras 21 people hospitalized; authorities don’t think terrorism was a factor NEW ORLEANS Authorities on Sunday identified the motorist who allegedly plowed into a Mardi Gras crowd while intoxicated, sending 21 people to the hospital. The New Orleans Police Department identified the man as Neilson Rizzuto, 25. Online jail records showed that he was arrested on a number of charges and was being held at the city’s jail. The accident happened at 6:45 p.m. Saturday during one of the busiest nights of Mardi Gras, when thousands throng the streets of Mid-City to watch the

elaborate floats and clamor to catch beads and trinkets tossed from riders. Police say a Rizzuto breath alcohol test determined that Rizzuto’s alcohol level was three times the legal limit after he was arrested. “We suspect that the subject was highly intoxicated,” Police Chief Michael Harrison had said on Saturday evening. Of the 21 people hospitalized after the crash, five were taken to a trauma center in guarded condition. But their injuries did not seem to be life-threatening, said Dr. Jeff Elder, city emergency services director. He said seven others declined to be hospitalized.

The victims range in age from 3 or 4 to their 30s and 40s. Among the injured was a New Orleans police officer. Harrison said the officer, who was on duty, was undergoing medical tests. She was in “good spirits,” he said. A woman on the street, Dana Welch, said she saw the gray truck speeding toward the crowd. “I saw him coming and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, it’s going to be a catastrophe,’ ” she told The New Orleans Advocate. The motorist hit two vehicles before plowing into the crowd. Kourtney McKinnis, 20, told The Advocate that the driver of the truck seemed almost unaware of what he had just done. “He was just kind of out of it,” she said. REBECCA SANTANA (AP)

God’s love may be free, but the Vatican says it has a copyright on the pope. Unnerved by the proliferation of papalthemed T-shirts, snow globes and tea towels around the world, the Vatican has warned that it intends to “protect” the image of Pope Francis and “stop situations of illegality that may be discovered.” The threat marks a sea change for a church that for some 2,000 years has seen popes venerated on all manner of flags, banners and medals. But the popularity of Francis and the ease with which his image can be copied in the internet age has led to the Vatican’s concerns. (AP)

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“One of the things we say in the South [is], ‘If a Girl Scout egged your house, would you buy cookies from her?’ ” SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE SPOKESWOMAN, discussing Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” the announcement by President Trump that he won’t attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner April 29.

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Official: Kim Jong Nam suffered ‘painful death’ Kim Jong Nam, the half brother of North Korea’s leader, died a “very painful death” within 20 minutes of poison being smeared on his face, Malaysian authorities said Sunday. This suggests he was exposed to a huge amount of VX, a nerve agent so lethal it is classified as a weapon of mass destruction, said Malaysia’s health minister, S. Subramaniam, who cited autopsy reports. North Korea is believed to be behind the murder, and the U.S. has canceled talks scheduled to be held in New York this week between North Korean diplomats and former American officials. (TWP) MILITARY

Father of slain SEAL refused to meet Trump Bill Owens, the father of the lone Navy SEAL killed during an anti-terrorism raid in Yemen, told the Miami Herald that he is demanding an investigation into the raid. Owens said he refused to meet President Trump when both came to receive the casket carrying his son, Chief Special Warfare Officer William “Ryan” Owens. “The government owes my son an investigation,” Bill Owens told the Herald. (AP)

Syrian government warplanes pound rebel-held area in Homs, killing at least 3, wounding dozens

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VP and Cabinet members scramble to explain — or even contradict — the president New DNC chair Perez pledges to unite party Vice President Mike Pence

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and foreign leaders nonetheless emerged from 2½ days of meetings with the vice president uncertain if he really spoke on behalf of the president or if his dull diplomacy could yet be undone by a tweet or stray remark from Trump just days later. And on a diplomatic mission in Mexico City, Kelly chided the press for misreporting and misrepresenting the facts. “Let me be very clear. There will be no — repeat, no — mass deportations,” he said. “There will be no — repeat, no — use of military force in immigration operations.” But the news reports to which Kelly referred were simply quoting Trump himself, who earlier in the day had touted “a military operation” in the U.S. to help round up and deport undocumented immigrants, whom the president called “really bad dudes.” Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, suggested that Trump was using “military” as

Mattis’ message abroad On a recent trip to the Middle East, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis seemed to break from two of the president’s comments. Donald Trump recently tweeted that he views the “fake news media” as an “enemy of the American people.” At a stop in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Mattis said, “I don’t have any issue with the press myself.” And at a stop in Baghdad, Mattis pushed back on comments Trump made last month at CIA headquarters, in which Trump said the U.S. should have “kept the oil” during the drawdown from the Iraq War. “We’re not in Iraq to seize anybody’s oil,” Mattis said. (TWP)

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POLITICS After President Trump said that deporting undocumented immigrants was “a military operation,” Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, speaking in Mexico, clarified that there would be “no use of military force in immigration operations.” After Trump, standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, upended decades of U.S. policy by saying he was open to a one-state solution to the conflict in the Middle East, U.N. envoy Nikki Haley asserted that the United States “absolutely” supports a two-state solution. And after Trump alarmed European allies by declaring NATO obsolete, Vice President Pence flew to Munich and Brussels, where he reassured a worried continent that the president remains “fully devoted to our trans-Atlantic union.” One of the unofficial duties of Trump’s Cabinet, it seems, is cleaning up the statements of the man they serve. Five weeks into Trump’s tenure, his deputies have found themselves softening, explaining and sometimes outright contradicting the president. “It puts the Cabinet officials in an awkward position,” said Ryan Williams, a Republican strategist. “They serve the president and obviously don’t want to contradict him, but at the same time they have to articulate administration policy, which sounds like an oxymoron — contradicting the president by articulating administration policy — but that’s been the case in some instances so far.” When Pence traveled to Europe a week ago to offer bland assurances — a message of support for NATO and cooperation with the European Union — he managed to temporarily soothe nervous allies. But diplomats

as questions of nuance and semantics, not true ideological conflict. “Our president chose bold leaders, not a group of yes-secretaries, and from time to time the language may differ slightly, but they are all pulling together in the same direction to make our country great again,” said Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s principal deputy press secretary. But Robert Dallek, a presidential historian and biographer, said he found the stream of contradictions and cleanups worrying — and unprecedented. “It’s as if what someone says doesn’t matter, because the next minute they change it,” he said. “They don’t seem to understand that the words coming out of a presidential administration or a top adviser to the president count for something and resonate and reach people, not only in the media but across this country and around the world.” ASHLEY PARKER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

POLITICS Newly elected Democratic national chairman Tom Perez pledged Sunday to unite a fractured party, rebuild at all levels and reach out to chunks of rural America left feeling forgotten in the 2016 election. Speaking in television interviews, Perez, backed by former President Barack Obama, indicated that an important first step was joining with his vanquished rival, Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, who agreed at Perez’s invitation to serve as the Democratic National Committee’s deputy chairman. Perez said the two would work hard to put out an affirmative party message while opposing President Trump’s policies, adding that he and Ellison were getting a “good kick” out of Trump tweeting that the DNC election was “rigged.” The former Obama labor secretary must now rebuild a party that in the last decade has lost about 1,000 elected posts, a deficit not seen in 90 years. Progressive Democrats reacted to Perez’s election with dismay, but Ellison, backed by liberal Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, said he trusts Perez and that the burgeoning resistance movement should do the same. On Sunday, Sanders praised Ellison for taking on “Democratic insiders.” Describing the party as broken, Sanders said on CNN that Perez “has a real opportunity on his hands. And I hope he seizes it.” HOPE YEN AND BILL BARROW (AP)

White House dodges questions, doesn’t rule out AG Jeff Sessions recusing himself from Russia probe

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These lifeless Terps were strong-armed in the paint, giving up an obscene 30 secondchance points. They didn’t seem engaged, their star was as absent as their defense and they were showered with boos. The 83-69 loss gave Maryland its first three-game losing streak in nearly five years. And this worst game of the season came in front of the best team in school history, the one whose trademark snarl doesn’t seem to have faded with age. The former stars had happily dished out advice hours earlier, during a 15th anniversary celebration that brought them back to school. “We were just a gritty team that was really hungry,” Baxter said. “I wish we could pass our hunger on.” Hunger and grit seem less important than size and talent, and yet something has soured with this Maryland group that entered February at 20-2, the best start in school history, with three freshmen starters and a veteran star who all seemed immune to self-doubt.

L.G. Gill, from left, Jared Nickens and Jaylen Brantley were somber on the bench while Maryland on Saturday dropped its fifth of seven games.

Since then? The Terps have lost five of seven. They’ve wilted late, failing to outscore their opponent in the second half of any of those games. Over their last three second halves, they’ve been outscored by 39. And the worst of it has come in College Park. The two Final Four teams lost a combined three times at home. These Terps lost three home games in February. “We need a little bit more positive energy in our team moving forward, a little bit more confidence,” coach Mark Turgeon said.

Maryland (22-7, 10-6 Big Ten) could still reach 25 wins for a third straight year, something previously accomplished only by the graying men honored at halftime. If Turgeon’s current group needs a confidence boost, maybe it can mainline some from the past. “All of us were pretty much underdogs our whole life,” Baxter said. “We just wanted to show everybody that we were serious. We wanted to show everybody how good we were.” For more by Dan Steinberg, go to washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog

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Enforcer-turned-coach benched after brawl

Ex-Buffalo Sabres enforcer Andrew Peters has been suspended indefinitely as coach of a youth hockey team after an on-ice brawl in Buffalo, N.Y. The Junior Sabres announced the move Sunday, a day after a melee involving the 15-andunder team coached by Peters, 36. On a YouTube video, Peters, listed at 6-foot-4 and 240 pounds, appears to shove an opposing player to the ice. No charges were filed, but an investigation is pending. (AP)

Men’s basketball: Virginia hosts North Carolina tonight (7, ESPN)

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They still dripped with swagger, the 2002 Terps, together for the first time since they visited the White House as national champions. Lonny Baxter chest-bumped Gary Williams, who once again thrust his fist toward the Xfinity Center crowd. Byron Mouton jabbed some of that team’s hardware into the air. The last player introduced was Juan Dixon, who this week was still texting teammates about what they did 15 years ago. “Bro, we played hard as a [unprintable],” Dixon wrote to Baxter. “No wonder we’re champions.” “We were all hungry,” Baxter responded. They weren’t referring to this year’s team in those texts, not even obliquely. But you couldn’t forget their words, not after the current Terps were bullied throughout a second straight humbling home loss, this one by 14 points to middling Iowa on Saturday.

Coach Gary Williams and Byron Mouton were part of a contingent being honored at Maryland on Saturday for the 2002 NCAA championship.

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Maryland celebrates Big Ten title After No. 2 Maryland beat Minnesota 93-60 on Sunday in College Park, the Terps celebrated twice. First, there was a trophy to recognize their share of the regular-season Big Ten title. Then, the jersey numbers of Brionna Jones and Shatori WalkerKimbrough were lifted to the rafters in recognition of their play over the past four years. On Sunday, Jones had 24 points and 14 rebounds, and Walker-Kimbrough tallied 27 points and six assists. After a third straight regular season with at least a share of the conference crown, Maryland (27-2, 15-1) begins Big Ten tournament play Friday as the No. 2 seed behind co-champ Ohio State. (AP)

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High school wrestler wanted to face boys, but his wish was denied CYPRESS, TEXAS Booed and bloody, Mack Beggs dropped to his knees to celebrate. He was, after four wins and two days and all the rest, a state champion. A 12-2 win over Chelsea Sanchez in the 110-pound division made Beggs the first transgender competitor to win a girls’ 6A high school wrestling title in Texas.

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Beggs, a 17-year-old junior at Trinity High in Euless, began a transition from girl to boy two years ago. Now that includes testosterone injections. Quick and noticeably strong, Beggs entered the tournament unbeaten in 52 matches against girls. The University Interscholastic League, which oversees sports in Texas public schools, ordered Beggs to continue competing in the girls’ division despite an uproar — and a lawsuit earlier this month in a Travis County district court.

So Saturday, those who had packed into Berry Center, a sprawling multipurpose facility in suburban Houston, were divided — like the state and country. The tournament ended a week in which President Donald Trump revoked federal guidelines allowing transgender students to use public restrooms that match their gender identity. It played out in a state divided over a proposed “bathroom bill” similar to the one roiling North Carolina. Attorney James Baudhuin,

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Public school policies in Texas require Mack Beggs to wrestle girls despite taking testosterone.

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Baltimore safety Matt Elam faces marijuana, oxycodone and reckless driving charges after being arrested Sunday in Miami Beach, Fla., according to county jail records. The Ravens already had announced they would not re-sign Elam, 25, when his contract expires next month. They reiterated that in a statement Sunday. A first-round draft pick out of Florida in 2013, Elam has just one career interception. He made one tackle in nine games last season. (AP) CHUCK BURTON (AP)

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Despite hitting obstacles, Fowler wins Honda Classic Rickie Fowler made it interesting Sunday for as long as it took him to make two big putts to pull away in the Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Staked to a four-shot lead, Fowler hit one putt into a sprinkler hole, hit a tee shot into the water and watched a big lead shrink to one over Gary Woodland early on the back nine. But Fowler answered with consecutive birdie putts of 40 and 25 feet and closed with a 1-over 71 for a four-shot victory. Woodland stumbled late and had to share second place with Morgan Hoffmann. (AP)

who is suing the UIL over Beggs’ participation in the girls’ division, said Beggs has asked to wrestle against boys, but UIL guidelines demand athletes compete within their birth gender. “To me, this is a complete abject failure of leadership and accountability from the people who regulate sports in Texas,” Baudhuin said. The UIL issued a statement Friday that said the birth-certificate rule could change in the future. Its council meets in June.

DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. | Kurt Busch celebrates his victory Sunday in the Daytona 500 after surviving a crash-filled season opener to win the race for the first time in 16 tries. Busch led only one lap, the final one, passing Kyle Larson while Larson ran out gas. Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. both exited in wrecks.

The number of career points for Washington guard Kelsey Plum, who became the all-time leading scorer in NCAA women’s basketball with a career-best 57 points in the No. 11 Huskies’ 84-77 win over Utah on Saturday in Seattle. She entered the game needing 54 points to surpass Jackie Stiles (Southwest Misssouri State) and is 270 points behind Pete Maravich (LSU) for the top scoring mark including men and women. Washington begins Pac-12 tournament play in Friday’s quarterfinals. (EXPRESS)

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“The problems that we have at Baylor are no different than the problems at any other school in America.” KIM MULKEY, Baylor’s women’s basketball coach, defending the school Saturday after an 86-48 win over Texas Tech.

A federal lawsuit alleges that at least 31 Baylor football players committed at least 52 “acts of rape” over four years.

Manny Pacquiao, Amir Khan say they have agreed to terms for April 23 fight

Rory McIlroy: Playing golf with President Trump “wasn’t an endorsement or a political statement”

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Bill Paxton, the prolific and charismatic film and TV actor, died Saturday from complications of surgery. A family representative confirmed the news Sunday. He was 61. Paxton’s movie credits included signature works of the past 40 years, from “Titanic” and “Apollo 13” to “The Terminator” and “Aliens.” TV fans know him for his role in HBO’s “Big Love,” for which he received three Golden Globe nominations. (AP) CBS cancels “Doubt,” starring Katherine Heigl, after two episodes

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In “Say Yes to the Dress,” not all brides are bridezillas.

I often say yes to “Say Yes to the Dress,” which kicked off Season 15 at 8 p.m. Saturday on TLC. My wife introduced me to the show years ago. Perhaps she watches for vicarious thrills, because she never got to say yes to a wedding dress. She couldn’t find a gown she loved, so ended up purchasing a white blouse and a white skirt.

If only she could have gone to New York’s Kleinfeld Bridal boutique, where the show takes place. They’ve got a googolplex of gowns: strapless, mermaid, bling-encrusted, see-through and some festooned with thousands of pieces of what looks like wadded-up tissue. The gowns on the show start at around $2,000 and escalate to $27,000 — the most expensive gown picked by a bride on the series.

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Though “Say Yes” offers compelling evidence that the wedding industry has thoroughly brainwashed women to spend megabucks on a garment to be worn just once, the show has some additional layers. The women on the show

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