It is common wisdom that girls are cracked out on "Twilight." "No other writer in recent memory has quite tapped into adolescent yearning and girlhood fantasies about being desired," Vanity Fair's Evgenia Peretz recently wrote of author Stephenie Meyer. Full Article at Salon

Photo: Former Alaskan swimmers reunite 111509 SPORTS 4 Juneau Empire Laura Miller (Ketchikan Killer Whales, now with University of Wisconsin), Meghan Cavanaugh (Northern Lights Swim Team, now with Northwestern University), Genny Szymanski (Haines... Full Article at Juneau Empire

One February night in 2007, a boisterous crowd from all around Texas—old-school ranchers and farmers, fresh-faced Baylor students, environmentalists new and old, big-city Democrats, and rural Republicans—packed a Waco auditorium to discuss the next... Full Article at EcoEarth News

Chief David Kunkle at his retirement press conference today; standing next to him, wife Sarah Dodd The TV cameras arrived early and set up inside the press room in police headquarters. Full Article at Dallas Observer

âSam sends news that moment ago, in the middle of Police Chief David Kunkle's farewell press conference, Jack Hammack, who was standing behind Kunkle, collapsed. Full Article at Dallas Observer

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Nov. 10, 2009 - In the first ever statistical analysis of whether openly gay service has any impact on military readiness, a new study shows that knowing a gay or lesbian unit member has no bearing on the unit's cohesion. Full Article at YubaNet