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-- John O'Neill, the man killed last week by an N-Judah a J-Church train, died while saving his pup, Cappy. If there is a heaven, O'Neill is up there. [Chron]

They settled the Alameda County garbage strike lockout! After a nine-hour mediation, Oakland mayor Ron Dellums announced late yesterday night that all the parties had managed to resolve the four-week dispute. No one can disclose the details, but the union will vote on whether to accept the proposal this Saturday. If the union approves the deal, regular garbage pickup could resume as early as Monday. Meanwhile, the Chron, giving us all the news from the animal perspective, reports that a woman is suing the garbage company for making her dog sick when he ate trash they hadn't picked up.

-- 4.2 tremor slightly moves the Bay Area, donuts. [Chron, Yahoo, Examiner, FCJ]

Here's todays wrap up of the news

We're getting so sick of this Schwarzenegger guy -- the unusually small head, the smug perma-grin, the SUVs and cigars, and -- oh yeah! -- the completely unjustified hate for underappreciated working-class people (students, teachers, nurses, women working on movie sets). What's up with the constant "I'm going to run and tell mommy if you don't play kickball the way I like," anyways? So how funny that Schwarzenegger's latest attempt to take the ball and go home to the voters (a-GAIN -- he's like the boy who cried "special election"), has hit a snag. You may recall that Schwarzenegger is now trying to take away teachers' pensions (since teachers make so much money they're completely set for posh retirements on cruise ships and stuff) through a special election process, since, unsurprisingly, he can't seem to convince anyone in the State Senate that this is a good idea. Well, the Chronicle's David Lazarus reports that the group that Schwarzenegger's cronies have hired to collect and verify signatures has been outsourcing the work to India. Dude, when you can't even keep the Republican work in the state, you got a problem. Picture from Arnoldwatch.org