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Honolulu had the worst traffic congestion among American cities in 2011, with drivers wasting an average of 58 hours stuck in gridlock, according to a study released Tuesday.

Hoku cuts 100 workers, halts plant construction

Hammered by plunging polysilicon prices, Hono­lulu-based Hoku Corp. was forced to lay off 100 workers and halt construction on a plant in Idaho that was to produce the main component used in photovoltaic solar panels, company officials said Tuesday.

Priory welcomes Maori king

Singing a song of welcome in Hawaiian, students at St. Andrew's Priory greeted New Zealand's Maori King Tuheitia on Tuesday as he paid an official visit to the school, which has deep ties to the Hawaiian monarchy and Polynesia.

Dude food

Life was great when I could eat or drink anything I wanted and not worry about consequences. But those days are long gone.

For Kila, Oakland is more than OK

ARLINGTON, Texas » Before last September, Kila Ka‘aihue had only played for one organization during his nine seasons of professional baseball. But after Kansas City optioned him to Triple-A on May 5, 2011, so top prospect Eric Hosmer could make his long-awaited debut, the writing was on the wall for this Kailua native.

 Jamm Aquino / jaquino@staradvertiser.com Ewa residents Chris Lewis, left, and Sam Puletasi looked at a county line map Tuesday during a public hearing on reapportionment proposals in Kapolei. Hawaii elections will proceed as scheduled this year as a federal panel of judges Tuesday refused to intervene and stop the state from moving forward with a reapportionment and redistricting plan approved in March.  Story »

Maui police have identified a suspected car thief whom an officer shot and killed Tuesday in a Kihei hotel parking lot as Marshall M.K. Langford, 31, of Wai­luku.  Story »

Hammered by plunging polysilicon prices, Hono­lulu-based Hoku Corp. was forced to lay off 100 workers and halt construction on a plant in Idaho that was to produce the main component used in photovoltaic solar panels, company officials said Tuesday. Story »

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The three candidates for Honolulu mayor face off in the first televised debate of 2012 tonight at Hawaii News Now's studios, in partnership with the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Story »


Hawaii teachers approved by a 2-to-1 margin a contract that they had previously rejected, although the governor has said the agreement is no longer valid. Story »


WASHINGTON >> Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has apologized for any embarrassment he caused his state when he revived a widely discredited conspiracy theory about President Barack Obama’s birthplace by requesting verification that the president was born in Hawaii Story »

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When you're trying to peer into the future, a look back can be instructive. Evaluating the trend lines for electric vehicle (EV) sales and acceptance is one good example. Story »

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There is John Wayne's vintage '53 Corvette. There are also James Dean's '49 Mercury, Elvis's '73 Cadillac and Jack Benny's famed Maxwell, at home in Reno, Nev., at the National Automobile Museum, known familiarly as the Harrah Collection. Story »

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EMMONAK, Alaska >> She was 19, a young Alaska Native woman in this icebound fishing village of 800 in the Yukon River delta, when an intruder broke into her home and raped her. The man left. Shaking, the woman called the tribal police, a force of three.

SALT LAKE CITY >> When Marguerite Driessen, a professor here, entered Brigham Young University in the early 1980s, she was the first black person many Mormon students had ever met, and she spent a good bit of her college time debunking stereotypes about African-Americans.

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