QBN (aka News Today) sports a superb, clean design with a bolder front page. There's minimal use of JavaScript here, but where you see it, it's simple and useful as in the collapsing/expanding left sidebar divs. Be sure to check out the filter page. Easy to sticking around here a while. I miss the "News Today" welcome sound though--the only startup sound I've ever liked on a home page.

http://qbn.com