Friday, May 18, 2012
Seal motion, prosecutors ask
City prosecutors are asking a state judge to keep sealed a request to dismiss a murder charge against a State Department special agent and its supporting exhibits, which include surveillance videotapes of the fatal shooting at a McDonald's Waikiki restaurant last year.
School marks new eras
Saint Francis School will see its last all-girls class graduate this month, 87 years after the school was founded in Manoa.
State runs short of funds for EV rebate
A state program that provided Hawaii motorists with $4,500 toward the purchase of plug-in electric vehicles has ended earlier than expected because high consumer demand depleted the fund.
Reality TV star 'Dog' and family on receiving end of death threats
Duane "Dog" Chapman and his family have been receiving threatening emails in the past few weeks.
Name in the News: Richard Kahle Jr.
Expecting what its chairman, Richard Kahle Jr., forecast as a solid economy in the coming years, the state Council on Revenues gave state officials a green light in putting together a healthy two-year state budget.
1 down, 2 to go
Les Murakami Stadium has been the cure for all of Hawaii's ills this season.
The family of a 39-year-old Waipahu mother of three, missing since Mother's Day, remains hopeful she will be found alive.
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A Nanakuli resident was persuaded by police to surrender a pet boa constrictor in order to avoid prosecution Thursday morning.
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Baggage fees are turning into big bucks for Hawaiian Airlines. Story »
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WASHINGTON — It’s been 14 months since a massive tsunami swept over parts of Japan, but federal officials still lack a comprehensive plan for detecting and disposing of the resulting debris that is expected to make landfall on the West Coast by sometime next year, a Senate panel was told Thursday Story »
WASHINGTON >> In a revival of the controversy surrounding President Barack Obama's Hawaii birth certificate, a state official in Arizona says it's "possible" that he'll hold Obama's name off the Arizona ballot if Hawaii officials don't send him confirmation that the president was born there. Story »
- Marines Return
- Graduation signs
- Island Images: USS Carl Vinson, May 15, 2012
- Page One Collection: May 2012 [Part 2]
- HPD Police Week Memorial Service, May 14, 2012
- Chaminade commencement
May 14, 2012, Blaisdell Arena - Island Images: May 2012 [Part 2]
- Harlem Globetrotters
- Sports Extra: H.S. Track & Field Championships [Part 2]
- Sports Extra: H.S. Track & Field Championships
- Sports Extra: H.S. Baseball, Division I & II Championships
- Island Images: Disney's 'Wonder'-ous Maiden Voyage
- Sports Extra: H.S. Volleyball, Division I & II Championship
- HHSAA State Championship Division II
When Smokey Robinson talks about the music business, a wise person should listen. Robinson is one of the great figures in modern American music. Story »
The city has won federal approval to produce the first sections of elevated guideway for the 20-mile Honolulu rail system.
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Les Murakami Stadium has been the cure for all of Hawaii's ills this season. Story »
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While on an all-day hike deep in Molokai's Halawa Valley five years ago, the popular Hawaiian folk singer and musician known simply as Lono ran across a friend, Lawrence Aki, who was guiding a group of visitors on the trail. Story »
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From where Peter Berg sat, in the shadow of U.S. warships along a Navy pier at Pearl Harbor, the Hollywood director couldn’t see the star of his new action film “Battleship.” Story »
SANFORD, Fla. >> The killing of Trayvon Martin here 2 1/2 months ago has been cast as the latest test of race relations and equal justice in America. But it was also a test of a small city police department that does not have a homicide unit and typically deals with three or four murder cases a year.
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