Winners

Manchester College

: Independent college is among the 97 institutions on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s list of “Great Colleges to Work For.” The University of Notre Dame is the only other Indiana school included.

Lifetime Sports Academy

: The program that teaches sports skills and values to children from throughout the city wraps up its 13th year, with this year’s enrollment topping 1,700.

WellPoint: Indianapolis-based health insurance giant posts a second-quarter net profit of $722 million. Analysts say the poor economy kept people from seeing their doctors.

Brown County State Park: More than 3,000 acres of park land will be set aside for Ten O’Clock Line Nature Preserve, the state’s largest preserve.

City homeowners

: Promising low bids for garbage service mean monthly trash fee could actually decrease in 2011.

Tossups

Brickyard 400

: Indy race has exciting finish – with stands half empty. Organizers consider a TV blackout to increase next year’s attendance.

Milestones

Ivy Bean: Oldest known user of the micro-blogging site Twitter dies at 104. Her last tweet: “going to have my lunch now will be back later.”

“The View”: Obama’s visit is the first time a sitting president has ever appeared on a daytime talk show.

Losers

Tony Hayward

: BP’s board demotes its top executive after a string of verbal miscues and meets the fate that Col. Klink always feared in “Hogan’s Heroes” – shipped off to Siberia.

Kokomo: The auto industry roller-coaster that has taken this city to numerous highs and lows drops, with auto supplier Delphi saying it will eliminate its Kokomo operations – and 1,300 jobs – because it is losing a big GM contract.

California: As budget woes continue, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reinstates “Furlough Fridays” for 200,000 state workers. State controller warns that cash could run out by October.