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Aya Miyama's decisive goal slams into the net as U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo watches. (Associated Press)
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Motorists wave as they drive on the reopened stretch of Interstate 405, Drivers honked their horns and waved from car windows as traffic started moving in all 10 lanes just after noon Sunday for the first time since the interstate was shut down at midnight Friday. (Associated Press)
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Traffic moves along Sepulveda Boulevard on Saturday, July 16, 2011, as a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 405 is shut down to demolish the Mulholland Drive bridge in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Indonesia's Mount Lokon, seen from Tomohon, North Sulawesi, spews volcanic ash in its most powerful eruption yet on Sunday, July 17, 2011. (AP Photo)
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Traffic is blocked on the northbound of Interstate 405 freeway near I-10 freeway shortly after it closed for construction at midnight on July 15, 2011, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
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Phoenix Mercury forward Candice Dupree and Washington Mystics forward Kerri Gardin fight for a rebound during a WNBA basketball game on Friday in Phoenix. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Pat Shannahan)
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Smoke from a burning effigy of India's home minister floats by a man in Allahabad during protests Thursday of the Mumbai bombings. (Associated Press)
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July 17 NASA / ART: 50 Years of Exploration at National Air and Space Through October 9 at the National Air and Space Museum, Independence Ave. and 6th St. SW, 202.633.1000, http://www.si.edu/Museums/air-and-space-museum
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Michael Harris Homes is building 112 town homes at Symphony Park at Strathmore. Owners will be given a complimentary three-year membership to the Symphony Park Circle, which provides ticket discounts.
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The center-island kitchen in the Augusta model features 42-inch raised-panel cabinets. The kitchen is open to the breakfast area and family room.
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Steuart-Kret Homes is building 292 single-family homes at Agricopia in La Plata. The four-bedroom Augusta model, with 3,307 square feet, is priced from $456,900.
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The Augusta model includes a den, a family room, a formal living room and a formal dining room on the main level in addition to the center-island kitchen and breakfast area, a powder room and a laundry room. Upstairs are four bedrooms and three full baths.
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An American flag hangs off the back of a ladder truck as emergency vehicles fill the parking area at a cemetery during the service for Lt. Shannon Stone of the Brownwood Fire Department Monday, July 11, 2011, in Brownwood, Texas. Stone was fatally injured trying to catch a souvenir baseball at a Texas Rangers game. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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Area residents Steve and Ky McDorman stand by the roadside as a funeral procession of emergency vehicles for Lt. Shannon Stone of the Brownwood Fire Department drives by on Monday, July 11, 2011 (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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Family members follow the procession with the fire truck carrying the casket of Brownwood firefighter Lt. Shannon Stone after the funeral in Brownwood on Monday, July 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Star-Telegram, Joyce Marshall)
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Firefighters sit at the back of the fire truck carrying the casket of Brownwood firefighter Shannon Stone on the way to the cemetary after his funeral. (AP Photo/Star-Telegram, Joyce Marshall)
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People stand on the side of the road as emergency vehicles in a funeral processional for Brownwood firefighter Lt. Shannon Stone make their way down the road in Brownwood, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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Curt Flood made three All-Star appearances the 1960s. He played 13 games for the Washington Senators in 1971 before retiring. (Associated Press)
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Less than nine months after he was fired from National Public Radio, Juan Williams has struck back with "Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate." (Crown Publishing Group)
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Rescuers try to locate passengers from a tourist boat that sank on the Volga River in central Russia on Sunday, July 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations)