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Facebook’s major push into the mobile world puts the social network at the heart of Android smartphones in the form of Facebook Home, which should appeal to its most-addicted users.

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook has redesigned the main attraction of its social network to address complaints that its website has turned into a jumble of monotonous musings and random photos.

In an attempt to breathe new life into Facebook’s News Feed, the company will introduce new controls that allow people to sort streams of photos and other material into organized sections.

LOS ANGELES — It sounds like the plot line to a movie: He’s a former LA cop on a violent, rage-filled rampage who will stop at nothing for revenge.

Instead, police say, it is the latest real-life crime story to grip Southern California, a place where fiction frequently blurs with reality and pop culture often plays larger than the truth. Christopher Dorner’s alleged killing spree hasn’t just terrorized a section of the country — it has captured people’s imagination and attention.

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new search feature on Tuesday in the company's first staged event at its Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters since its May initial public offering.

SYRACUSE — A motion to remove a member of the city’s planning commission for comments he made on social media attacking the city attorney and then the city recorder, died for lack of a second Tuesday, spurring public discussion among council members about the role of free speech.

Mayor Jamie Nagle placed on the agenda a motion to remove Planning Commissioner Gary Pratt for his public role following Facebook posts made in November about City Attorney Will Carlson and City Recorder Cassie Brown.

The post about Carlson included a link to an interview Carlson did with CNN about gay rights. The comment on Brown suggested she would delete any potentially negative statements from Nagle from the minutes.

OGDEN — In the 1960s, Southern black civil-rights activists planned protests and sit-ins at church meetings or around the kitchen table.

In the 1970s, college students who opposed the Vietnam War planned their campaigns and activities in dorm rooms or open areas on campus.

In the 2010s, the new meeting place for like-minded protesters is social media, said Leah Murray, Weber State associate professor of Political Science and Philosophy.

“Facebook makes voicing your opinion more accessible to people,” Murray said.