Football fans awaiting President-elect Barack Obama's call for a college football playoff have another poll they can focus on in the meantime, thanks to Coldwell Banker Real Estate. Since the Akron Zips are ranked No. 1, rather than the Alabama Crimson Tide, this poll, at first glance, could cause football followers more grief than the various ballot- and computer-based rankings that determine the teams for the Bowl Championship Series title game. The real estate company released its rankings of the most affordable and expensive college towns based on a four-bedroom home with a family room. ...more

November 19, 2008

Hundreds attended the funeral this morning of a popular Plant High School senior who was killed in wreck during the weekend. ...more

November 19, 2008

They are the children of the light, those devastated young men and women who will come together this morning to mourn the loss of one of their own. ...more

November 19, 2008

They don't remember much about the wreck, but they'll never forget Allyson Faulk. ...more

November 18, 2008

Plant High School students were offered grief counselors this morning as they coped with the death of popular 17-year-old Allyson Faulk in a car crash Friday. ...more

November 17, 2008

As college tuition costs continue to rise and states such as Florida cut funding for public universities, the pay of college presidents across the United States is rising. ...more

November 17, 2008