World: An American scientist and two Japanese scientists split this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry. In the 1960s and 70s, the men each made separate advances with carbon molecules. (New York Times)

Nation: Hazing accusations have been made at two universities against the sorority Sigma Gamma Rho, at Rutgers and San Jose State University. (New York Times)

State: Churchill Downs announced the cancellation of HullabaLOU, a 3 day music festival, for 2011, after the company’s first festival this past August lost the company $5 million. (Louisville Courier-Journal)

Other: Two men who allegedly tried to fly into the Bowling Green-Warren Country Regional Airport with $1 million in cocaine pleaded not guilty. (Bowling Green Daily News)