Fredericksburg VA LS
Usability: 
fredericksburg.com (HTML5)
Fredericksburg, Virginia is a city of 20,000 about 50 miles from Washington, DC. The local pape is the Fredericksburg Lance Star. Its Website uses a responsive web design that works well with modern smartphone browsers and with Opera Mini.
Hampton Roads VA Press
Usability: mobile.dailypress.com/ (xhtml-mp)
Hampton Roads VA Daily Press mobile edition has local news, sports and editorials for Newport News and Hampton Roads Virginia.
Tidewater News - VA
Usability: m.tidewaternews.com/ (xhtml-mp)
Published three days a week in Franklin Virginia, The Tide Water News covers Franklin, Southampton County and Isle of Wight County. The responsive site's content includes local news, sports, weather, editorials and obituaries.
Staunton VA News Leader
Usability: m.newsleader.com (xhtml-mp)
The Daily News Leader, from Staunton, Virginia publishes this mobile web site.
Paywall.
Kitsap (WA) Sun
Usability: m.kitsapsun.com/ (xhtml-mp)
Mobile edition of the Kitsap, Washington Sun. Text only versions of dozens of stories from the paper's News, Business, Homes, Jobs, Cars & Information sections. Source: @phoneboy
Manchester (VT) Journal
Usability: m.manchesterjournal.com (xhtml-mp)
Daily newspaper site from Manchester Vermont. Local news, sports, weather, editorials, columns, obituaries and the Town Meeting schedule and agenda.
Seattle PI
Usability: m.seattlepi.com (xhtml-mp)
Local Seattle stories from the web-only Seatlle Post Intelligencer. Includes News, Business, Sports, Weather and Traffic.
KING5.COM Seattle
Usability: www.king5.com (HTML5)
Seattle TV channel 5's mobile site comes in two versions.
By default mobile visitors are redirected to king5.mlnwap.com a mobile site with a homepage weight of 2 MB that includes lots of photos and videos.
There's also a "basic mobile" version at king5.mlnwap.com/basic/ which has smaller and fewer images and no videos. It's homepage is only a 79 KB download.
The Olympian
Usability: m.theolympian.com/ (xhtml-mp)
The mobile site of an Olympia Washington daily newspaper. It covers local and state level news and sports. The site also features weather forecasts with radar and satellite images from Accuweather and local traffic reports.
Spokane SR
Usability: spokesmanreview.com/mobile/ (xhtml-mp)
Columbian Vancouver, WA
Usability: m.columbian.com (xhtml-mp)
News, weather, traffic cameras, school closures, and movie show times for Portland Oregon and Vancouver, Washington from The Columbian daily newspaper. Not the best mobile site. There are only two news items, both sports related, on the whole site. Movie listings are full of "garbage" characters making them hard to read. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory
Spokane 7 Event Calendar
Usability: www.spokane7.com/mobile/ (xhtml-mp)
12NEWS Clarksburg WV
Usability: m.wboy.com/ (xhtml-mp)
Mobile news, sports, weather and commentary from Clarksburg, West Virginia's WBOY-TV, Channel 12. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory
Graffiti - West Virginia
Usability: mobile.grafwv.com/ (xhtml-mp)
Mobile version of a free alternative newspaper published in Parkersburg. West Virginia. Local news, sports, interviews and features with a counter culture slant. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory
Eau Claire Leader-Tel.
Usability: m.leadertelegram.com/ (xhtml-mp)
The Leader-Telegram brings the latest news, sports and weather to the residents of Eau Claire and the Chippewa valley, Wisconsin. The site also has business, entertainment, features and editorial sections, obituaries and movie showtimes. Source: Tappity
Soft paywall allows free access to 10 articles every 30 days
Appleton WI Post-Crescent
Usability: m.postcrescent.com (xhtml-mp)
Mobile site of The Post-Crescent in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Paywall.
Fond du Lac WI Reporter
Usability: m.fdlreporter.com/ (xhtml-mp)
Mobile web site from The Reporter out of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
Paywall.
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Usability: m.greenbaypressgazette.com/ (xhtml-mp)
The Green Bay (Wisconsin) Press-Gazette's mobile news site.
Paywall
Manitowoc WI Herald Times
Usability: m.htrnews.com/ (xhtml-mp)
Local news weather and sports on your phone from the Herald Times Reporter in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Paywall.
Marshfield WI News-Herald
Usability: m.marshfieldnewsherald.com (xhtml-mp)
The Marshfield (Wisconsin) News-Herald's mobile site.
Paywall.
Today's TMJ4
Usability: www.todaystmj4.com/mobile (xhtml-mp)
This text only mobile site from Milwaukee, Wisconsin's NBC television affiliate WTMJ Channel, 4 has local and national news stories. Source: Tappity
14-Mar-2013: mobile site is broken. Homepage consists of two links; News and Local & Regional both of which take you to the site's non-mobile homepage.
Milwaukee JSOnline
Usability: m.jsonline.com/ (HTML5)
The Milwaukee, WI Journal-Sentinel's site features Local, National and World News, Sports, Business, Entertainment and Weather.
Oshkosh WI Northwestern
Usability: m.thenorthwestern.com/ (xhtml-mp)
Local news from Oshkosh Wisconsin courtesy of the local daily, the Oshkosh Northwestern.
Paywall
Sheboygan WI Press
Usability: m.sheboygan-press.com/ (xhtml-mp)
The Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press' local mobile news site.
Paywall
Stevens Point WI Journal
Usability: m.stevenspointjournal.com/ (xhtml-mp)
Local news, weather and sports from The Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Journal.
Paywall.
Wausau WI Daily Herald
Usability: m.wausaudailyherald.com/ (xhtml-mp)
The Wausau (Wisconsin) Daily Herald's mobile web site.
Paywall.
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
Usability: m.wisconsinrapidstribune.com/ (xhtml-mp)
Local news from Wisconsin Rapids' daily, The Daily Tribune.
Paywall.
Casper WY Star Tribune
Usability: m.trib.com/ (xhtml-mp)
Mobile edition of the daily newspaper in Wyoming's second largest city (population 49,000).The text-only site is very complete, I think it includes the entire text content of the paper. There are hundreds of full length items including local and state news, sports, business, science, high school, college and professional sports, obituaries and editorials. In spite of its depth the mobile site is quite easy to navigate with a well designed hierarchical menu structure and access key accelerators. Pagination keeps page sizes under 10KB for compatibility withe all mobile browsers. A fast and effective site search makes it easy to find items.