Hey there, all! I found this link online I know you'll love. Check it out:

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What I can make out:

>Los Angeles
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>Man Found...[Dead?]...Downtown [Loft?]
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>The body of ...[L?]antham of New York was...[found?]...shortly after 4 a.m. in the...of Grand Avenue.
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>Tod...man[?] at The Tower...[heard the sound?] of loud noises...[from Lantham's?] loft. Connected... covered the...a beam in the....[ac?]cording.....[?]med...

It's hard to match up the lines of text, but I'm pretty sure about the name Lantham. I don't think it's the obit of a Lostie or Other. I think it's someone we haven't met yet who was killed by a Lostie/Other or who died as a result of the actions of a Lostie/Other.

The guy Sawyer mistakenly killed in Australia just before the crash, he was American. Was he from NY? The Tower could be Trump Tower in Columbus Circle. Of course, it doesn't have to be NYC at all...

I do feel pretty certain that newspaper containing the article was NOT an LA paper. (Meaning Jack and Kate are not in LA in the flash forward scenes.) Otherwise, why the "Los Angeles" heading? I'm a NYer and it didn't look like NY to me either. I could be wrong... Maybe it was Hawaii? It makes sense when you remember that Jack said every week he flew around the Pacific searching for the island.

I think we've been misjudging the temporal disruptions on the island. At least, I have. It's not that they've been on the island a whole lot longer than they think, but the opposite! Maybe by the time they return to civilization they've only been gone a week and that guy's body has only just been discovered in Australia? That could explain why Richard hasn't aged. If so, "Adam and Eve" could actually be THE Adam and Eve. Creepy.