Penn State, State College Noon News & Features: Friday, July 22

State College, Penn State and Centre County are in the news — locally, nationally, internationally and in cyberspace. We post the latest sampling of stories of note, with links, from our site and across the Web every weekday in Noon News & Features.

Here is Friday’s offering:

News

• HFL Proposes Student Apartment Building at Hetzel and Beaver (StateCollege.com)

• Jersey Mike’s Likely in Former Webster’s Space, State College Leader Says (StateCollege.com)

• Conklin Announces Support for a ‘Caylee’s Law’ in Pennsylvania (StateCollege.com)

• Nineteenth-Century Rifle, Cash Reported Stolen in State College (StateCollege.com)

• Police: Lemont Residents Charged with Supplying Alcohol to Minors (StateCollege.com)

• Verizon Customers Complain of ‘Slow or No’ Internet Service (WTAJ TV)

• Smeal Professor Testifies before Congress on Financial Stability (Penn State Live)

• ‘Conversations’ to Feature Back-to-back Episodes on Big Ten Network (Penn State Live)

• Penn State ‘Stellar Scholar’ Wins Award for Social Skills Interventions (Prevention Action)

• Students Learn to Cope with Rising Tuition (Daily Collegian)

• Journey Ready to be Taken: Penn State Advice (Onward State)

• The 10 Douchiest Colleges in America (GQ via Onward State)

Columns/Opinions

• Russell Frank: Old Mother Nature’s Recipes (StateCollege.com)

Audio

• What Happens When The Body Overheats? NPR Talks to Penn State Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology (NPR)

Sports

• Penn State Football Single Game Ticket Sale Begins July 29 (GoPSUsports)

• The Quarterback Question (Onward State)

• Track and Field: Loxsom to Represent Country (Daily Collegian)

• Eleven Nittany Lions Honored as Scholar Athlete All-Americans by College Gymnastics Association (GoPSUsports)

• Scrappers’ 20-hit Barrage Downs Spikes (State College Spikes)

• A Minor League Barnstorming Tour: Medlar Field at Lubrano Park (CSN Philly)