What happens when three Alabama municipalities agree on a road expansion project, obtain federal money...and then one wants to back out? The $500,000 question: who reimburses the feds? (The Anniston Star)

Welcome to the World Series of excuses: St. Petersburg cracks down on people who abuse handicapped parking placards at Tropicana Field. You're outta there! (St. Petersburg Times)

It turns out that Dallas Area Rapid Transit overestimated revenue by almost $3 billion; now will cut hundreds of jobs and reduce light rail service. (Dallas Morning News)

Gas purists feel the pinch as federal standards push ethanol content higher (Kansas City Star)

Ohioans cross their fingers: 1,000 local jobs depend on a federal loan to set up electric car battery plant (Columbus Dispatch)

And a day after putting the spat-on bus-drivers taking two months off story on the front page, The Times' Jim Dwyer (who had an early career stint as the In the Subways columnist for the late, great New York Newsday) reports that it wasn't really true, nor is it the source of the MTA's budget woes. (The New York Times) .

(Full Disclosure: WNYC also reported the story, but Matthew Schuerman wisely put it in the context of a set a strategic leaks by the MTA about the union. )