State College, Penn State and Centre County are in the news all over cyberspace. We post links to the most noteworthy local stories every weekday in Noon News & Features.

Here is Friday's offering:

NEWS

• Curley, Schultz Preliminary Hearings: Updates, Live Tweets from Dauphin County - StateCollege.com

• McQueary: 'Shocked, Horrified, Not Thinking Straight' - Chicago Tribune

• Judge Reviewing Joe Paterno's Grand-Jury Testimony - Associated Press via Newser

• Renaissance Fund Dinner to Honor Spaniers Now Undecided - StateCollege.com

• Penn State Requests More Time to Respond to NCAA Inquiry - StateCollege.com

• Sandusky Hearing Cost Town, County $21,700 - Centre Daily Times

• Gricar Letter Surfaces, Criticizes Corbett - WJAC TV

• Emergency Closes Portion of Shortlidge Road - Penn State Live

• State Theatre Selects New Director - Centre Daily Times

• Penn State Police Investigate Reported Burglary; Image Released - StateCollege.com

VIDEO and PHOTOS

• VIDEO: Sandusky Attorney Rominger: 'Which Version Are We Going to Hear?' - StateCollege.com

• PHOTOS: Images from Dauphin County as Schultz, Curley Face Preliminary Hearings - StateCollege.com

COLUMNS/OPINION

• Russell Frank: Seeing Something and Saying Something - StateCollege.com

• Mike Poorman: Coaching Search Committee's Rejects and Mythbusters - StateCollege.com

• Mike Poorman: Seven Coaches Likely to Be on the Search Committee's Short List - StateCollege.com

• John Tecce: Face It: Winter Break Won't Be a Break from Scandal - Onward State

• Kristi Dosh: Paterno Legacy Likely Trails Coaching Icons - ESPN

SPORTS

• Cost Family Endows Men's Soccer Scholarship - GoPSUsports.com

• Wolverton Earns Invitation to U.S. U-20 Training Camp - GoPSUsports.com

• Women's Gymnastics Picked to Finish Third in the Big Ten - GoPSUsports.com

• Soccer America Names Hayes an MVP - GoPSUsports.com

• Penn State Basketball Recruit Honing Skills for Next Level - Centre Daily Times

YESTERDAY'S HEADLINES

• Penn State, State College Noon News & Features: Thursday, Dec. 15 - StateCollege.com