Hangover Cures: Best Books To Ease In The New Year (PHOTOS, POLL) (The Huffington Post)
Happy New Year’s everyone! We hope you all had a great time ringing in 2010, perhaps such a great time that you could use some relief. Luckily, we’ve rounded up the best books to cure your hangover, including some helpful tips. So get out that raw egg, turn off your coffee pot, open another beer.

HAPPY NEW YEAR (Arkansas News Bureau)
Wishing you a very happy, prosperous, healthy, magical 2010! May the recession recede, may peace spread as globally as H1N1 and may everyone have a dream to cling to through the ups and downs of another year. CHEERS!

Leap Year: Travis Pastrana Barges Into 2010 With History-Making Feat in Long Beach at Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
On New Year’s Eve, action sports icon Travis Pastrana made history in Long Beach, ringing in 2010 with a bang. The four-time Rally America Champion and nine-time X Games Gold Medalist broke boundaries and accelerated himself in to the history books by accomplishing an amazing feat of skill and calculated risk at Red Bull: New Year.

Happy campers arrive early for 2010 Rose Parade (AP via Yahoo! News)
Dean Hanson was a happy camper after the annual scramble for curbside seats for the Tournament of Roses Parade.

Coos Bay man, 84, to ride in Rose Parade (The World)
COOS BAY — While the University of Oregon football team readies to battle Ohio State in the Rose Bowl, one Coos Bay man is prepping to ride in the famed parade preceding the game in Pasadena, Calif.

Happy New Year! Look back at 2009, ahead to 2010 in Naples, Florida and beyond (Naples Daily News)
■ ROSE PARADE: The annual Tournament of Roses parade ushers in another new year from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST today.■ FIREWORKS COVERAGE: New Year’s Eve fireworks draw crowd to Naples Beach■ PEOPLE TO WATCH IN 2010: Here are the people to watch in 2010 for Southwest Florida. Take our poll.■ 2009 PEOPLE: How did the newsmakers do we watched in 2009?■ WHATEVER HAPPENED TO? Quick links to 2009 …

New Year’s Day was not always celebrated on the first of January (Post-Tribune)
Dear Readers: Happy New Year. We hope you managed to get through last night with a minimum of embarrassment or harm, and that you still remember what you did. We also hope 2010 will be a wonderful year for each and every one of you. May you be blessed with good health, kind friends, close family, love and laughter. Make this the year you vow to be kinder to everyone you meet. It helps make the …

2010 Parade float remembers donors; Allen’s Spencer Squire one of honorees (The Allen American)
This year’s Rose Bowl Parade will hold special significance for one Allen family and a multitude of their friends and loved ones. Patrick and Anna Squire’s son, Spencer, passed away on Aug. 8, 2007 from an undetected, malignant brain tumor.

Happy campers arrive early for 2010 Rose Parade (KPCC Pasadena)
Kelly Means, from San Bernardino, Calif. sets up sleeping bags for her family to spend the night along the 2010 Rose Parade route in Pasadena, Calif. on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009.

Happy New Year, we made it to 2010 (The Flint Journal)
Happy New Year! Or, if you were stupid enough to drink too much last night, HAPPY NEW YEAR! MAY THE SOUND OF YOUR INTERNAL DIALOGUE AS YOU READ THIS COLUMN BE REALLY, REALLY LOUD!

Rose Bowl Hopes to Bet Future on a Makeover (New York Times)
After a week of being at the epicenter of the college football world, Rose Bowl officials will try to complete plans for a $164 million renovation of the stadium.

Rose Parade kicks off (Los Angeles Times)
Capt. Chesley B. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger, the pilot who saved everyone aboard his disabled passenger plane by landing it in the Hudson River, is grand marshal for the 121st edition of the tournament. The 121st Rose Parade kicked off just after 8 a.m., led by grand marshal Capt. Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, the hero pilot who guided a US Airways plane to a safe landing in the Hudson River last …

Happy New Year, Canada! Junior squad wins shootout (Canada.com)
New Year’s Eve celebrations began a little early in Saskatoon, as Team Canada welcomed in 2010 with a 5-4 shootout victory over the United States to clinch first place in Group A and earn a semi-final berth at the world junior hockey championship.

Sarah Jessica Parker’s see-through frock and Mirror.co.uk’s top 10 wardrobe malfunctions (Daily Mirror)
Sarah Jessica Parker isn’t the first and certainly won’t be the last celebrity to suffer an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction…

Jennifer Lopez Mocks And Talks AMAs Fall, Performs On The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Neon Limelight)
There is nothing better than a pop star who can laugh at themselves having a not so perfect moment. When actress/singer Jennifer Lopez dropped by The Ellen DeGeneres show yesterday (December 3), she not only spoke in detail about the embarrassing American Music Awards performance fall but she mocked the whole thing in an opening [...]

Ryan Augustine to represent Iowa on Rose Bowl float (The Oskaloosa Herald)
New Year’s Day 2010 the National FFA will be in the spot light as a float representing FFA and sponsored by RFD-TV will be in the Rose Bowl Parade. An FFA member from all 50 states will walk with the float through the parade as well as the National FFA Officers.