Captain Graebner has been in the news lately after the History Channel discovered that he owned two rolls of eight millimeter color film that he shot while sweeping across France and Germany with the Army’s 5th Armored Division following D-Day in 1944.

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WHAT'S BREWING: World War II vet in history world spotlight for rare films (The Medina Sun)

Behind its senior leader and one of the top offensive threats in the Ivy League, the Bulldogs spent the year in the top half of the Ivy League standings. However, Yale ultimately fell far short of the leaders, finishing in the middle of the pack and not really challenging the top teams over the final two weeks of the season.

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Yale - Team Notes (USA Today)

OMAHA – Jake Varner already etched his name into the history books.

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Varner to go for second straight title (The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil)

RARITAN TOWNSHIP — Rare treasures are already surfacing as the book donations drive for the Hunterdon County Library System's annual sale continues.

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Annual book drive for Hunterdon County Library sale unearthing rare finds (MyCentralJersey.com)

In a rare and symbolic ritual under windswept skies at Camp Pendleton this month, the 1st Marine Division held a Battle Colors March off to War ceremony representing the division's upcoming deployment to Afghanistan and to honor the six other forward...

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Pendleton Marines say goodbye to families (San Clemente Sun Post News)

Jeff Kinney had a clear template when it came time to adapt his wildly successful "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" children's books to the big screen.

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'Diary of a Wimpy Kid': from stick figures to sweet flick (Erie Times-News)

Lifelong Hope Valley resident Joseph Soares has always been interested in local history, and it was his passion for collecting historic photographs that led him to pen books on the area's history.

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Hope Valley author races to keep up with local history (The Westerly Sun)

There is a remarkable event going on in the world of journalism. In the Jan. 14 issue of the New York Review of Books, the scholar and political essayist Tony Judt announced that he was dying.

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There is a remarkable event going on in the world of journalism. In the Jan. 14... (San Francisco Chronicle)

A young trailbike rider has helped reunite the son of a former All Black with two stolen historic rugby books, but his rare book is still missing.

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Historic rugby books found (Stuff)

Jeff Kinney had a clear template when it came time to adapt his wildly successful Diary of a Wimpy Kid children's books to the big screen.

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From stick figures to sweet flick (The Philadelphia Inquirer)