The Atlanta Falcons move a step closer to getting a new billion-dollar stadium downtown. The Georgia World Congress Center Authority unanimously approved the 24-page framework for a deal that details things including who would own the stadium and how it would be paid for. The new venue is set to open in 2017.

Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Josh Brent posts $500,000 bail, accused of speeding and driving drunk when he hit a curb and flipped his car early Saturday, killing teammate Jerry Brown. Brent faces an intoxication manslaughter charge and left jail Sunday after posting bond. He released a statement describing himself as "devastated and filled with grief." He goes on to say, "I will live with this horrific and tragic loss every day for the rest of my life." Brent and Brown were also teammates at Illinois, when Brent pleaded guilty to a DUI in 2009.

In KISS news about your kids' health: too much salt can lead to childhood obesity. Australian researchers say that's because kids who ate more salty foods also drank more fluids--and those were often sugar-sweetened like fruit drinks, sodas, flavored mineral waters and sports drinks. Sugary drinks have been tied to a rise in childhood obesity.

Two armed Portland, Oregon boys try carjacking a woman sitting in her truck in the church parking lot Sunday. She refused, and drove off. The boys are just 7 and 11 years old, and police caught up with them after a brief chase. The 11-year-old ignored police officers' commands to show his hands, and tried reaching back into his pocket--where he had a cocked, loaded .22-caliber handgun. The boys were released into their parents' custody. The 11-year-old escaped--but was caught and sent back home.

Time is running out for negotiators as the fiscal cliff deadline is now just three weeks away. Speaker Boehner went to the White House over the weekend for talks with President Obama on a budget agreement. Sen. Bob Corker says his fellow Republicans in the Senate would probably agree to higher tax rates on the wealthiest Americans if it meant getting a chance to overhaul costly government entitlement programs.

Gas prices slide another 10 cents over the past three weeks, now averaging $3.24 per gallon in metro Atlanta. That's 14 cents cheaper than the national average. Of the cities surveyed, Memphis, Tennessee, has the nation's lowest average price and Long Island, New York, the highest.

Is that a bird in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? Unexpected movement during the airport patdown. A Miami man faces up to 20 years in prison for allegedly trying to smuggle bullfinches from Cuba into the U-S. He had stuffed 16 of the birds into his trousers.

DUI charges have been filed against a Georgia Tech assistant basketball coach. Josh Posterino, 35, was arrested last Thursday on a recruiting trip to Florida. The coach says he'll be off the bench "indefinitely."

The latest government count finds there are fewer homeless veterans and fewer long-term homeless, but the number of families with no place to live has risen slightly.

The New York maid who accused International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault is expected to appear in a courtroom in the Bronx today. Lawyers will update a judge on talks to reach a settlement.

The KISS 104 weather forecast: mostly cloudy, 70% chance of scattered showers this afternoon, high of 68.