LONG SHOT: Every year for the past 20, a Charlotte man has made a pilgrimage to Raleigh to beg strangers to keep the man who killed his mother locked up. This week, he made a desperate move to ask the state Supreme Court to keep Bobby E. Bowden, one of two-dozen lifers who may be released unconditionally, in prison. (N&O)
JOB INFLATION: The government overstated by thousands the number of jobs it created under President Barack Obama's stimulus program. One Colorado company said it created 4,000 jobs. The real number: fewer than 1,000. (AP)
OPT-OUT OUT?: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to unveil health care reform legislation that would include a stronger government-run insurance option than the one moving in the Senate. The bill would not allow states to opt-out of the option.(McClatchy)
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