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TOP STORIES OF 2008: Hey, all the news wasn't bad (The News-Herald)

All stories that made headlines in 2008 were not considered bad news; some of it was fun to print. In fact, much of it told of good fortune, successful ventures, fresh beginnings and happy endings.

Briefly in Tompkins (The Ithaca Journal)

Ithaca High School students Jacob Evelyn (senior) and Mary Eloundou (sophomore) were awarded first prize and third prize in an essay competition to celebrate the French Presidency of the European Union, which ran from July-December 2008. Janet Bowman, French language teacher at Ithaca High School, learned of the competition through the Cornell Institute for European Studies' outreach program. ...

Picking up the pieces (London Free Press)

Two sisters who fled violence in Colombia are finding ways to keep their professional dreams alive through a London employment access centre for immigrants, The Free Press' Jennifer O'Brien reports.

Facts don't fit claims of FLDS welfare fraud (The Salt Lake Tribune)

Allegations that members of a southern Utah polygamous sect are guilty of widespread welfare fraud were raised repeatedly this summer during a U.S. Senate judiciary committee hearing.

Kennedy: It's a new year, but reaction to births shows same old hate (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

It's not OK to call all Hispanic people "illegal." Definitely not newborns.