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10:50 am: Local writer dies at age 44 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
A local writer whose struggles with a paralyzing neurological condition and subsequent inability to work launched a fund-raising campaign to help save her home has died at the age of 44.
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Local mines weather storm of falling metal prices (The Challis Messenger)
Local mining projects are weathering the storm of falling metals prices caused by the global financial crisis, with varying effects from none to a temporary shutdown of exploratory drilling.
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Charity empowers homeless, single moms (York Daily Record)
Every week, Tammi Morris receives at least five calls from single moms facing eviction from a shelter, a landlord, family member or friend.
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Local news (Woodstock Sentinel-Review)
WOODSTOCK - With the United Way of Oxford suffering from the same economic downturn that has battered many local manufacturers, Wednesday's donation from the workers at Timberland Equipment Ltd. offered a moment of hope.
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Local TV Stations Are Facing Severe Cost PressuresHere's How They Should Cut (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)
NBC Local and Fox announced last week their plan to pool resources to cover local news in certain markets, an encouraging sign that TV stations are beginning to understand the desperate need to rationalize their massive newsgathering costs.
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Hawaiian music to be featured at local events (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
If the dragging economy undermined vacation plans for Hawaiian music fans, they can still enjoy the music of the islands at two upcoming local events.
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Recession 2.0: Single Mom "Fears Future" (US News & World Report)
This former food bank volunteer now uses the charity for her family.
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Rural Fire Agencies Merge Into Single Entity (KGTV San Diego)
About a dozen rural fire agencies in San Diego County were formally merged Wednesday into a single entity responsible for nearly 1 million acres in the unincorporated areas.
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Only local staff to be deployed for poll duty in Kupwara (New Kerala)
Srinagar, Nov 20 : The authorities in the frontier district of Kupwara, once a hub of militants, have decided to deploy only local state government employees for poll duty in five assembly segments, going to polls for the third phase on November 30.
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Crime-free Oregon town sticks with police force of 2 (KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland)
COBURG, Ore. (AP) -- City officials in the Lane County town Coburg, north of Eugene, were thinking about giving up a local police force. After all, there hasn't been a single violent crime reported there since 2006.
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