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TAMPA, Fla. – Arguably the best player on the NFL’s best defense is a man who actually pauses and thinks before he talks, so when Troy Polamalu says something in his trademark soft voice, the words resonate importance.

During the 1960s, the United States recruited Hmong people to fight on the side of Americans in the Vietnam War. The Hmong, an ethnic minority group originating in China and Southeast Asia, then participated in what is known as the “Secret War.”

The photo of the week by photographer Matt Weir.

The horror film genre has catered almost exclusively to teenagers for more than a decade now. But “The Uninvited,” an English-language remake of the 2003 Korean smash “Janghwa, Hongryeon,” is the first Hollywood horror flick I’ve seen that seems like it was made specifically for 12-year-olds.

Sudoku and crossword puzzles, including answers for Friday, January 30. Also featuring the comic from Opinion.

Dumb is a good way to describe America’s approach to paying for a college education. A college diploma is treated like any other commodity, priced at whatever the market will bear. And the market, historically, bears a lot.

College students have a reputation of being irresponsible and pretty lazy. We try to convince people we are not lazy and we try so hard to break the stereotypical mold that has been placed upon us.

High interest in enrolling at California State University, Fresno, but too little funding from the state has prompted university officials to move up the application deadline for transfer students to Feb. 15, 2009.

Jonathan McCoy Malcolm, a 31-year-old music instructor at University High School was arrested Wednesday for displaying or distributing inappropriate content to minors and annoyance or molestation of a minor.
University Police and University High officials held a press conference Thursday to disperse information about the investigation.