Washington Post Top Online Stories: Tue 11/09/10

The Washington Post lead headline online early Tuesday morning says "Some judges chastise banks over foreclosure paperwork." The paper says a year ago, Long Island Judge Jeffrey Spinner concluded that a mortgage company's paperwork in a foreclosure case was so flawed and its behavior in negotiations with the borrower so "repugnant" that he erased the family's $292,500 debt and gave the house back for free.

The paper says U.S. and South Korean officials are aiming this week to conclude a free-trade agreement that leaders of both countries say would benefit their nations and deepen ties between two long-standing allies.

It says the chief counsel for the president's oil spill commission said Monday that he had not found any evidence that workers onshore or on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig cut corners on safety for the sake of saving money before the rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 people.

The paper says Alabama Rep. Spencer Bachus (R) told members of the South Shelby Chamber of Commerce that former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was probably the reason for the GOP's failure to take control in the U.S. Senate in last week's election.

And the most popular story says the Federal Reserve's aggressive action this week to boost the economy sent stocks soaring Thursday to their highest level in two years as investors expressed renewed confidence that someone in Washington was finally giving the sluggish recovery a lift.