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Tomorrow morning, a girls softball team from Londonderry is heading to Louisiana to play for the national title in the Babe Ruth League. The Londonderry Live Wires are aged 14 to 16 years old. They qualified for the World Series by winning the New England tournament.

The sounds of summer… children splashing in the pool, a gentle breeze in the trees, a drenching thunderstorm… and the roar of a motorcycle. Many people cannot understand the appeal of straddling a roaring engine that rattles windows blocks away. Their complaints have inspired law enforcement officers to crack down on loud motorcycles. But for some Granite Staters, revving up the Harley is essential part of the season. New Hampshire Public Radio's Raquel Maria Dillon has more.

Just say no...to sex? A federal abstinence only initiative has trickled down to New Hampshire in thousand of dollars in funding. We'll ask what these programs teach and whether they work. Laura's guests are Jennifer Frizzel, public affairs director at Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and Brook Dupee, manager of the abstinence only program for the commissioner's office at the state department of Health and Human Services. We will also hear from 18 year old abstinence advocate Alexis Pennington of Claremont.

We open the show with Representative Ray Buckley who is a six-time New Hampshire Democratic Delegate, who will update us on how the Democratic National Convention is going.