Nado Natterings (Coronado Eagle & Journal)
Going into Friday night's Central League game, both Coronado and San Diego High Schools had records of 1-3, so the game figured to be competitive. The Islanders prevailed by the final score of 28-26 in a game that was not decided until the last 90 seconds of play.

Experts: Arizona agriculture will not dry out (Arizona Daily Wildcat)
Watering crops with overhead sprinklers, as shown on this farm in Yuma, Arizona, loses much of the water to evaporation. Only a small portion of the land in Arizona is used for agriculture, however that use accounts for 70-80 percent of the states’ water resources.

State Bank Corp Reports Third Quarter Results (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. -- State Bank Corp. , the holding company for Mohave State Bank , announced net income of $236,000, or $0.06 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2009 as compared to net income of $621,000, or $0.16 per diluted share, for the same period of 2008.

Capitol Bancorp Reports Third Quarter Results (MalaysiaNews.net)
LANSING, Mich. and PHOENIX, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Capitol reported a net loss for the third quarter of approximately $30.9 million. The net loss per share for the quarter ended September 3...

Capitol Bancorp Reports Third Quarter Results (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Capitol reported a net loss for the third quarter of approximately $30.9 million.

Rocky Mount lands in top ten of cities hardest hit by recession (WNCT Greenville)
The recession is creating a rocky road for one city in the east.