Samoa News

This year's North Coast Open Studios event starts this weekend, and the artists of the Samoa-Manila peninsula invite the public to visit their local "hot spot," featuring new artists and a new studio.

Of the more than 180,000 people living in the United States in 2010 who considered themselves Samoan or a combination of Samoan and another race , the majority of them reside in Hawai'i and California, according to summary data released yesterday by the U.S. Census Bureau on the 2010 census for Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander .

Junior Seau looks on during a press conference to announce his retirement from the NFL on August 14, 2006 at the Chargers Training Camp in San Diego, California.

Junior Seau's family is revisiting its decision to donate the former NFL linebacker's brain for research into football-related injuries.

Friends and fans of ex-Chargers linebacker Junior Seau, who killed himself Wednesday with a shot to the chest, will hold a paddle- out memorial in front of his waterfront home in Oceanside today.