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Verizon iPhone 4 owners experience significantly fewer call drops: survey (examiner)
This is definitely a shocker, as no one could have foreseen this (insert sarcasm here). Verizon iPhone 4 owners are seeing significantly less dropped calls than their AT&T brethren.

Hearing set for mom accused of killing her teens (The Oregonian)
A Tampa woman accused of shooting her two teenage children earlier this year for talking back had a court hearing scheduled for Tuesday.

California City Is - Ground Zero' for Pension Battle After Worker Suicide (Bloomberg)
Righeimer is trying to fire 43 percent of public employees to get control of what he calls an unsustainable pension system in Costa Mesa.

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Q+A: Why did Obama reverse decision on 9/11 trials? (reuters)
The Obama administration on Monday reversed plans to use U.S. criminal courts to prosecute the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four co-conspirators and ordered them tried at a military tribunal.

Long Island Serial Killer: Eight Bodies Found at Beach in Total (longislandpress)
Three additional bodies found in the brush An arrow marking where the fifth body was found last week. Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer announced at a press conference Monday that three additional bodies have been found in the brush and woods off Ocean Parkway during today's search, bringing the body count at the beach to eight.

FAA: Airlines must inspect 737s for cracks (bizjournals)
Following Southwest Airlines' emergency landing Friday because of cracks in one of its planes, the Federal Aviation Administration is now calling for inspections of older Boeing 737s, The New York Times is reporting.

House GOP fiscal plan unveiled to slice off $4.4T (usatoday)
House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., says the 2012 GOP budget plan does not include tax hikes.

Lawyer expects man to plead guilty in Dugard case (Star Tribune)
An attorney in the case of a Northern California girl held captive in a backyard compound for 18 years said Monday he expects defendant Phillip Garrido to plead guilty to all charges and his wife to go to trial unless she gets a better plea deal.

US planes attack as US cuts back Libya mission (The Oregonian)
U.S. Air Force and Marine attack planes struck targets in Libya on a stretch of Mediterranean coastline near the cities of Sirte and Brega on Monday, the final day of planned U.S. combat missions in the North African nation, U.S. officials said.

AirTran is No. 1 in airline quality study (Star Tribune)
Low-cost carrier AirTran had the best overall performance of the 16 largest U.S. carriers last year in an annual study of airline quality released Monday, knocking the previous leader - Hawaiian Airlines - into second place.

Obama announces bid for re-election (CNN)
The president is making his campaign official slightly earlier than is typical for an incumbent so he can get a jump on fundraising in a season that's likely to shatter all records.

Man suspected of shooting officer found dead (The Oregonian)
A man involved in an hours-long standoff with Los Angeles police officers has been found dead in his house.

Feds begin investigating phone apps that share users' info with third parties (examiner)
Pandora Media Inc. said on Monday that it has been subpoenaed as part of a federal grand-jury probe into the methods smartphone software handles personal data.

If You Are Or Want To Be In The Middle Class... (ourfuture)
For most people the "American Dream" is to be in the middle class, or to raise yourself up to be in the middle class. And people used to expect that things would get better over time for all of us. But today more people are going the other way. Many people are finding it harder just to get by and stay even, and expect that things will get even worse for their kids. This is because more and more and more of the income is going to few and fewer and fewer people. This is called income inequality and it affects almost all of us in a bad way.

Budget Fight: Why Are Republicans Forcing a Shutdown? (ourfuture)
Why are Republicans forcing a government shutdown and doing other things aimed at blowing up the economy? The question isn't "are they," it is why are they? Their election strategy for 2010 was to obstruct everything and keep the economy from creating jobs, and then blame Democrats.