The Los Angeles Times is rolling out SCORE (SoCal Offers, Rewards & Entertainment), a free consumer loyalty program designed to enable advertisers to engage Times readers, with a sweepstakes offering $10,000 per week for 20 weeks in cash prizes. New members receive 1,500 points for registering, then earn more points by reading the Times, visiting latimes.com and other Los Angeles Times Media Group websites, watching television, taking surveys, answering trivia questions and playing games. Points can be redeemed for special offers and prizes.

The Day Publishing Co., New London, Conn., has named Daniel Williams as its audience development director, with divisional responsibilities ranging from circulation sales and marketing to digital media. Currently consumer marketing director and corporate audience development manager for The New York Times Regional Media Group, Williams will move from that Tampa-based group to his new job early next month.

While its price at newsracks and retailers will not change, The St. Augustine (Fla.) Record has informed readers that beginning July 12 it will raise home-delivery prices by at least one cent. The Record will not increase prices for those who switch before July 12 to a 12-month subscription either by making one payment for a full year or by signing up for EZ-Pay's automatic withdrawals.

A former credit manager for the Tampa Tribune has pleaded guilty to conning the newspaper out of more than $1 million. In his plea, he admits conspiring to create a company that for nearly a decade billed the paper for services it never received.

Billing itself the world's first open marketplace for behavioral targeting data and supplier of data-management tools, eXelate has launched its private marketplace for publishers, teXi:PM, allowing creation of stand-alone, exclusive, transparent data exchanges for premium advertisers and agencies. Publishers are afforded control over who may access their data. Part of eXelate's teXi:DM Data Management suite for publishers, the tool enables publishers to create their own one-to-one transparent relationships with data buyers in a closed, privacy-preserving, data marketplace while exploiting the reach of eXelate's open eXchange.

Boocoo.com -- a newspaper industry response to Craigslist and Ebay -- launches next week with nearly 300 newspaper and broadcast partners, its developer, Ranger Data Technologies said.

Surely this is a way better fate than fish wrapping: The Chicago Sun-Times donated 10 tons of shredded newsprint for Friday's ticker-tape parade celebrating the Chicago Blackhawks' winning of hockey's Stanley Cup.

Three men were arrested the night of June 9 in connection with what was believed to have been the beating and robbery of an 18-year-old newspaper delivery man on June 6, the Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass., reported. According to police, the assault and robbery occurred before 6:00 that morning while the unidentified carrier was delivering newspapers. The victim was at a McDonalds Wednesday night when he recognized the suspects and called 911.

The Los Angeles Times will re-launch its TV Times guide on Sunday, June 13, via newsstands and retail outlets. Readers told the Times they wanted a weekly guide with round-the-clock programming. As a tiered roll out, with an opportunity for subscribers to opt-in now for discounted home delivery beginning Sept. 5, the TV Times joins the paper as a 44-page tabloid section.

The annual World Young Reader Prizes add three new categories this year, including one for "connecting with mobile" that recognizes success in engaging the young via mobile devices. Deadline for entries is July 2. The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) awards recognize newspaper companies with the best projects and activities within the past 24 months for promoting newspaper reading, on all platforms, among those under 25.

Express KCS, the offshore media backoffice provider, on Wednesday named Ron Stephens as its vice president of publishing sales.

R. Jay Driskill joined News Publishing Co. as circulation manager of its Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune, where he oversees day-to-day home delivery and single-copy sales of NPCo community newspapers. Driskill was circulation director for the Daily Tribune News, in Cartersville, Ga., and worked for the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times Free-Press, the Gwinnett Daily Post, Lawrenceville, Ga., and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Betty Way probably was most the first woman running circulation for a major U.S. newspaper, according to The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa., which announced her death June 7 at age 69. Way also became the first woman president of the Inter-State Circulation Managers Association.