Armed Woman Targets Lawrence Co. Convenience Store (WPXI Pittsburgh)
Police are on the lookout for a woman who held up a Lawrence County convenience store on Sunday.

Peres: Israel does not intend to occupy Gaza Strip (Radio Netherlands)
Israel does not intend to occupy the Gaza Strip says Israeli President Peres. Fierce fighting is reported in the suburbs of Gaza city. Hamas wants talks with rival Fatah movement.

Around the BigEast Conference (USA Today)
Around the BigEast Conference

Business Telecom Firm Covation To Hire 913 In NC (WXII-TV Winston-Salem)
An Atlanta-based company serving business telecommunications customers plans to open a call center that could employ 913 people in the next two years.

Despite recession, Miamians can create a Happy New Year (Miami Today)
By Michael Lewis Short on New Year's resolutions? Try this: I will do all I can to speed Miami's economic recovery. It doesn't seem we can do much as the entire globe shudders. But rather than passively accept the worst — which we haven't yet felt — we have one option: do something.

Ohio Shooting Clubs Seeing Membership Growth (WLWT-TV Cincinnati)
Operators of trapshooting clubs in southwest Ohio say more people are showing up with their shotguns to try to blast orange clay targets from the sky.

Suspected Scam Artist Targets VFW (WFTV 9 Orlando)
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Quarter Master at the VFW on Edgewater Drive said a woman, who identified herself as Stephanie Black, showed up at the facility one day and claimed to be a Gold Star Mom. She said her son had been killed in Iraq and she was sick.

College's financial woes featured in Time (Beloit Daily News)
A national magazine has turned the spotlight on Beloit College in a two-page spread explaining how the school has dealt with the effects of the sputtering economy.

The Making of a Mess (Foreign Affairs Magazine)
Who Broke Global Finance, and Who Should Pay for It? Fixing Global Finance . Martin Wolf. London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, 230 pp. 24.95.

Bomb Threat Targets Calaveras County Office (KCRA 3 Sacramento)
A bomb threat led to the evacuation of the Calaveras County Government Center in San Andreas on Monday morning, the sheriff's office says.