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Interesting Area News

While you slept, showered, shaved, and got your Starbucks, we scanned the local papers, blogs and web sites and found the most interesting stories in them you might have missed.

• With billions at stake, HUGE patent trial between Apple & Samsung kicks off (Washington Post)
• A New Jones Point Park Emerges from Orange Cones (Alexandria Gazette)
• Good news: Virginia posts yet another surplus (Alexandria News)
• The terrible case of Ronnie Lee Durham, his son, his ex-wife and her lawyer (The State of NoVA)
• 12 year-old NJ girl grabs wheel when grandfather dies while driving them (WJLA)