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  • All of those on board — more than 150 — were killed when the Dana Air jet crashed into a Lagos neighborhood. It's feared there were other fatalities on the ground. Nigeria has had four crashes in the past decade that killed more than 100 people.
  • Police in Chicago say Charles Estell tried to rob a bank over the weekend. He allegedly snuck into the bank vault, snagged $100,000 in cash and, according to employees, disappeared into the ceiling. Police discovered him in an air duct and got him out.
  • Tyler Sullivan will return to class Monday with a note explaining why he skipped school on Friday. The fifth-grader had gone with his dad to a Honeywell plant outside Minneapolis, where President Obama was speaking. When the president shook Tyler's hand, he offered to write an excuse note for him.
  • The man who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was sent back to jail because he did not disclose to a judge that he had raised more than $200,000 to help pay for his defense. Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty to a second-degree murder charge.
  • Jack Nicklaus calls it "the gutsiest and best shot I've ever seen in my life." And the PGA Tour has posted a lesson on how it was done — though it concedes that knocking the ball into the hole is "Tiger-esque."
  • Bug bombs may sound like a high-powered way to deal with a bedbug infestation. But research shows the pesticide fog they create doesn't have faze the tiny pests. And it turns out, the insecticides may only serve to stir up the bugs.
  • Luka Rocco Magnotta is suspected of killing a man and then mailing parts of the body to Canadian politicians. He's reportedly been apprehended in Berlin.
  • There is yet another turn in the case of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed Florida teenager killed in February by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer. Zimmerman is back in police custody after his bond was revoked on Friday. Host Michel Martin gets the latest on the case from NPR's Greg Allen.
  • New York Times chief Washington correspondent David Sanger details how President Obama accelerated the use of innovative weapons to fight the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and sped up a wave of cyberattacks against Iran to destroy its nuclear centrifuges.
  • Queen Elizabeth II's husband has a bladder infection. He'll miss the last two days of Britain's four-day celebration marking the queen's 60th year on the throne.
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