UNIVERSITY PARK — A small group of Penn State students marked the first home football game of the season camping out in tents at the reconfigured and expanded Paternoville.

If you want to torture yourselves a bit on this last Friday before the next season begins, Penn State fans, think for a second about what the 2009 Nittany Lions could have accomplished if their special teams hadn’t let them down at critical times.

Information compiled by the Centre County Court Administrator’s Office.

Centre County is an oasis of relatively good economic standing during this very difficult time. Our unemployment rate remains the lowest of any county in the state — 6.5 percent through June, which is almost 3 percentage points below the national average. Nationally, we are one of just a third of metro areas where wages increased in 2009.

DENVER A federal appeals court has thrown out a jury verdict and a $926 million award to thousands of Colorado homeowners in a lawsuit involving plutonium contamination from a now-defunct nuclear weapons plant.