AP – Freshman Tommy Rees passed for 201 yards and two touchdowns to Michael Floyd as Notre Dame beat Miami 33-17 in the Sun Bowl on Friday, making Brian Kelly the first Fighting Irish coach to win a bowl game in his first season. More: continued here
AP – A standoff at a suburban Houston bank where two masked gunmen took seven hostages and three other people hid in a closet ended peacefully Friday after a negotiation of more than four hours. More: continued here
AP – North Korea, which has conducted two nuclear tests in the past, on Saturday welcomed the new year with calls for a Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons, better ties with rival South Korea and a promise to boost its military strength. More: continued here
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Here’s a high end gift for the cinephile who has everything – a collection of 15 of Elia Kazan’s films, from “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” (1945) through “America, America.” I would have liked to have seen his 1976 film, “The Last Tycoon,”… More: continued here
Cliff Castle Casino closes out year with $13K in donations to community …Verde IndependentThe Nation distributes many thousands of dollars every year to Northern Arizona communities in the form of charitable donations, sponsorships, … More: continued here
State Route 89A north of Sedona is now open from Pumphouse Wash at milepost 386 to Forest Highlands Road at milepost 397. More: continued here
AP – The silhouetted bodies moved in waves through the night, climbing out of crumbled homes and across mounds of rubble. Hundreds of thousands of people made their way to the center of the shattered city by the thin light of a waning crescent moon. There was hardly a sound. More: continued here
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AP – Brandon Knight scored 25 points and Josh Harrellson added a career-high 23 points and 14 rebounds as No. 11 Kentucky defeated No. 22 Louisville 78-63 on Friday. More: continued here
AP – Dazzling fireworks lit up Australia’s Sydney Harbor, communist Vietnam held a rare, Western-style countdown to the new year, and Japanese revelers released balloons carrying notes with people’s hopes and dreams as the world ushered in 2011. More: continued here
