College football, college hockey, prep football (The Toledo Blade)
COLLEGE FOOTBALL Mid-American Conference East Conference All Games W L PF PA W L PF PA Buffalo 5 3 256 223 7 5 362 333 Akron 3 5 264 289 5 7 360 375 BGSU 4 4 236 183 6 6 332 278 Temple 4 4 207 180 5 7 281 277 Kent St. 3 5 229 264 4 8 308 380 Ohio 3 5 196 235 4 8 289 327 Miami 1 7 144 270 2 10 221 392 West Conference All Games W L PF PA W L PF PA Ball St. 8 0 303 136 12 0 452 200 W. Mich. 6 2 ...

Kudos (The News & Observer)
RSM McGladrey was listed as one of the Best Accounting Firms to Work For in the publication Accounting Today. The rankings will be posted in the January issue of the publication.

FGCU notebook: Swimming team cracks Top 25 mid-major poll (Naples Daily News)
Neal Studd's second-year women's swimming and diving program is way ahead of schedule by any measure.

A cautious Christmas (The Tuscaloosa News)
The worst economic slump in decades has retailers fearing the worst, but hoping for the best, as consumers begin to shop for the holidays

Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.

The Fresh Market to make debut in Vero Beach in 2009 (Vero Press Journal)
The Fresh Market, a chain of gourmet supermarkets based in North Carolina, will be making its Treasure Coast debut next year on Miracle Mile in Vero Beach.

Journalist tells about her childhood in Liberia (Greensboro News & Record)
Shortly after Helene Cooper moved to the United States, a teacher asked where she was from. Cooper said she was from Liberia. The teacher asked where that was. "West Africa," Cooper said. "You're from Africa?" the teacher replied. "You sound like you're from Boston. Why don't you have an African accent?" "Some people had a preconceived notion of what an African sounded like," Cooper ...

Green Obama's official limo is a gas guzzler (Times Online)
On the campaign trail, Barack Obama promised to get a million plug-in hybrid cars on the road by 2015. His own new presidential limousine will be far from green, however.

Carroll grad shows he has heart of a champion (Dayton Daily News)
Jeanne Collins works at Miami Valley Hospital. She was already there when her 21-year-old son showed up in the emergency room.

Gregory snares Division 1 offer (Lowell Sun)
LOWELL -- He was a freshman, unsure of himself, and overweight. "Freshman year I weighed about 316. I was getting beaten up (in wrestling practice) every day," Mike Gregory recalls. The 18-year-old Greater Lowell Technical High School student can laugh about those days now -- the senior recently signed a National Letter of Intent to wrestle