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One of the perks of working at Microsoft: Health care costs that were 100% covered by the employer. Until now.

Microsoft announced to its employees Friday their "gold-plated" health care coverage would end in 2013, at which point the company would require employees to begin contributing to their own health care plans.

"There will be no charges for the next two years, but in 2013, employees will contribute to their health care," a statement released to the media by Microsoft read Friday.

A person speaking on behalf of the company told FOX40 News the decision to move to a cost-sharing model was based on recent data that showed health care costs rising in the United States by as much as 103%, with a projected rise over the next ten years by 187%.

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Radio personalities have to push the boundaries of political correctness to survive in an industry that faces fierce competition from the internet and the iPod, but some are questioning the timing and appropriateness of a handful of comments left by two local Entercom jocks on their Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Mike "Mikey" Muscatello, creative director and talent for KRXQ, was understandably frustrated when he arrived at the air studio for Sacramento-based 98Rock Wednesday afternoon to find someone had downloaded a virus on his computer. But it's how the jock chose to vent his frustration to listeners that has some raising eyebrows.

"Somebody gave my computer in my studio AIDS," Muscatello wrote on Facebook in reference to the deadly virus most commonly associated with gay and bisexual individuals.

Muscatello repeated the comment on his Twitter page: "Computer has AIDS...fml (fuck my life)."

Muscatello works for KRXQ, a radio station owned by Entercom Sacramento. Entercom has become synonymous in Sacramento for pushing the boundaries of radio, sometimes achieving unexpected results that stir up controversy.

In 2006, a water-drinking contest led to the death of a contestant at Entercom-owned KDND "107.9 The End," and in 2009 three morning show personalities came under fire by a gay and lesbian advocacy group known as GLAAD after two of the hosts made derogatory comments against transgender children.

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The Apple iPhone will be coming to Verizon Wireless in 2011, according to information obtained by the Wall Street Journal newspaper.

A move to Verizon would end Apple's contract with AT&T, which has been the exclusive carrier of the iPhone since its introduction in 2007.

The new iPhone would be mass produced in late 2010 and available for consumers in 2011. The iPhone will be the same phone sold by Apple now, with slightly modified technology for Verizon's cellular network.

An iPhone produced with CDMA technology to run on Verizon's network would also be able to run on Sprint's network, assuming the phone is unlocked. Currently, unlocked or "jailbroken" iPhone can run on both AT&T and T-Mobile's GSM network.

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A 13-year-old Utah girl will be reunited with her family later this week after being discovered in Sacramento with a 30-year-old man.

According to KSL-TV, 13-year-old Astrid Valdivia of Clearfield, Utah left her family a note saying she was running away from home last September. Based on information passed on from Valdivia's family to police, a missing person's alert known as the Endangered Persons Advisory was issued for Valdivia Tuesday afternoon.

By Tuesday evening, police had been tipped off that Valdivia was staying with 30-year-old Sacramento resident Anthony Martinez. Local authorities investigated the tip, located the pair and arrested Martinez on suspicion of child endangerment and resisting arrest.

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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he's confident President Barack Obama will retain the office of the White House in 2012 even if Congressional Democrats cannot retain their power in the House and the Senate.

Speaking to Germany's "Der Spiegel" newspaper, the Governor said he's not confident his party could find an adequate Republican candidate to run against Obama in two years.

"I assume that Obama will get a second term in office," Schwarzenegger said to the newspaper. "Obama can watch [the midterm elections] casually, knowing that [afterward] he will be in a much better position."

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