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Good morning, Washington. With baseball season officially underway and temperatures expected to inch up toward 90 today, it’s starting to feel like spring may have already given way to a premature summer. Monday marked for many the first time since last year that warm weather produced actual perspiration. It’s a nice change after a bitter winter, but are we getting cheated out of a proper spring? Thankfully, it does look like things will cool back down by the end of the week. In the meantime, we’re keeping an eye out for ice cream trucks and kids on their way to the pool.

Fenty Held in Contempt Over CFSA Lawsuit: A federal judge has found D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty in contempt of court in regard to the decades-old class action lawsuit that has long since governed the District’s Child and Family Services Agency. The ruling comes at the same time Fenty has been seeking to end the lawsuit, along with all the similar cases over special education, mental health, etc. While U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan’s decision “is not binding on the other class-action cases involving the District, the decision is a setback to the city’s legal strategy, and in this case came with the added bite of contempt,” writes WaPo. D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles has said he plans to appeal the ruling.

Suspects in South Cap Shooting Were in Custody Days Before: The Examiner’s Bill Myers continues to hammer away at last week’s deadly shooting on South Capitol Street, this morning reporting that all three suspects in the murders had been in custody just days before the bloodbath that killed four and injured five others. “Alleged triggermen Orlando Carter, 20, and Nathanial Simms, 26, had each been in custody in the days before the attacks,” while Malik Carter, 14, apparently “fled a center run by Alternative Solutions-Youth on March 22.”

Briefly Noted: Water main break shuts down part of Route 123 in Tysons Corner … First funeral for South Capitol shootings to be held today … Woman charged with intentionally placing herself in front of a Metrobus in Arlington … New fees on tap in Fairfax County … West Virginia mine explosion is worst since 1984.

This Day in DCist: In 2009, we took our first look at Pho 14 in Columbia Heights, and in 2007, we were staring down one of the coldest Aprils in recent memory, with the prospect of snow in the forecast.