Elapsed time: faster than it takes to size local heroes Bear Pascoe and David Carr for Super Bowl rings. Read comments

The global economy is fast changing and technology driven. Public education in America, meanwhile, is tradition bound and limping along like a 2000 Ford Excursion with a bad transmission. Read comments

If you didn't get confused -- even once -- watching the TV series "Lost," then the latest goings-on involving the Chukchansi tribe should be up your alley. Read comments

Pat Hill sounded like a young coach again. The weariness and frustration that had crept in during his final years at Fresno State had been replaced by unbridled enthusiasm. Read comments

The Internet again has proclaimed Fresno the meth capital of the United States. Read comments

I'm sure that leaders of a three-day Fresno County employee strike will declare it a success because that's what unions always do. Read comments

The Environmental Protection Agency this morning will announce that it's sending $21 million to help clean the air in the smoggy San Joaquin Valley and elsewhere in California. Read comments

A gang lured 10-year-old Jose Ponce into its embrace by giving him money for candy and toys. Read comments

The home invaders came with a bolt-cutter, guns, two-way radios, ski masks and plastic ties. One robber wore a bullet-proof vest. Read comments

The home invaders came with a bolt-cutter, guns, two-way radios, ski masks and plastic ties. One robber wore a bullet-proof vest. Read comments