Thursday, May 24, 2012
Hawaii News
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.
LOS ANGELES » Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they'll have a special ring to them this weekend for people in the western United States and eastern Asia: The moon will slide across the sun, blocking everything but a blazing halo of light.
A federal probe into how an air traffic controller's error put two jets in danger of colliding over Hawaii shows the worker didn't believe he was ready to direct aircraft from the radar station where he was assigned and had asked for more training.
WAILUKU, Maui » Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa doesn't want his county to have more than a dozen hostess bars.
HAMPTON, Va. » Some of the nation's 200 F-22 Raptor pilots want to be moved into other jobs because of oxygen-deficit problems with the stealth fighter, an Air Force leader said Monday.
HANALEI, Hawaii » It's a warm Tuesday afternoon on Kauai, and tourists are lining up — just a few at first, then a dozen or so.
LOS ANGELES » A researcher has spotted lava flows shaped like coils of rope near the equator of Mars, the first time such geologic features have been discovered outside of Earth.
The West's 2012 wildfire season exploded in earnest last month with a wind-whipped blaze that killed three people in rugged alpine canyon country near Denver.
North Korea's much-anticipated rocket launch ended quickly in failure early today, splintering into pieces over the Yellow Sea soon after takeoff.
The city is offering new board and commission members the option to complete mandatory Sunshine Law training online.
Legislation aimed at streamlining Hawaii's construction permitting process could have broad environmental and cultural consequences, some state officials worry.
HELENA, Mont. » Investigators knew early on that three Montana children reported missing in August had been living with their father and stepmother on a sailboat in the Bahamas, but could do nothing because of an arduous extradition process, police in Montana said.
Born in a Japanese fishing village just after his refugee family landed there in a desperate 1919 escape from Russia’s Bolshevik revolution, Roy Essoyan arrived in the Soviet Union nearly four decades later as an American journalist.
When a man entered the courtroom, jumped on District Judge Lono Lee's bench and broke in two a flagpole behind the judge Monday, Lee took matters into his own hands.
For those in the Northeast looking for palm trees and white sand to escape the remnants of winter, look no farther than Philadelphia.
Federal lawmakers announced Thursday they have obtained information previously unavailable to military investigators that proves the Navy should not have disqualified a Marine from being posthumously awarded America's highest military honor.
Kauai residents say they expect a big boost in tourists if the critically acclaimed movie "The Descendants" is a winner Sunday in the 84th annual Academy Awards.
Daniel Grabauskas, who stepped down as general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in 2009 amid political turmoil, was named as the finalist Friday to lead the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation as its chief executive officer.
A serial forgery artist with a 20-year rap sheet allegedly tried, after being released on probation, to buy two Waikiki jewelry kiosks last year with more than $60,000 in bogus checks drawn from an Oahu Community Correctional Center inmate trust account.
A national drug shortage is threatening to disrupt cancer therapy for 24-year-old Tammie Miura and at least 100 Hawaii patients who use the medicine as a main source of treatment.
A military jury on Thursday found a Hawaii-based Marine sergeant not guilty of hazing a lance corporal who later committed suicide in Afghanistan.
A new leader took over at the U.S. Pacific Fleet on Friday as Adm. Cecil Haney, former deputy of the U.S. Strategic Command, replaced Adm. Patrick Walsh, who is retiring. Haney, a former submarine squadron commander, told about 900 people at the change-of-command ceremony at Pearl Harbor that he plans to build on the foundation Walsh nurtured as he takes over the helm in an area that stretches from the U.S. West Coast to the Indian Ocean.
The Navy's top commander in the Pacific says he is concerned local arguments in disputed oil-rich waters near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea could escalate into larger, more serious confrontations.
KAUNAKAKAI » The U.S. Coast Guard has established a temporary security zone for when an American Safari Cruises tour returns to Molokai this weekend.
More people are setting sail for Hawaii. More than 104,000 travelers arrived in the islands on cruise ships -- mostly from the West Coast -- in the first 11 months of last year, according to the most recent data available.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack toured Pearl Harbor on a visit Tuesday meant to highlight the Obama administration's commitment to renewable energy.
Kona coffee growers want Hawaii's labeling law modified to provide more details on packages of coffee blends that contain Hawaii-grown beans. Currently, coffee blends sold in the state that contain Hawaii-grown coffee must disclose what percentage is grown in the islands, and it must be at least 10 percent.
HILO » The former student charged with making threats against security staff at the Hawaii island campus of Kamehameha Schools has been charged with making threats against police.
The family of a Seattle sailor said Tuesday they had remained hopeful that he would be found because he had been feared lost at sea before.
PORTLAND, Ore. » Paul Stanford's business is medical marijuana, and he is the nation's leading gateway to the drug. In Oregon, Hawaii, Michigan and three other states where it's legal, he charges a small fee for access to sympathetic doctors.
HILO » A Hawaii island sculptor is creating a life-size statue of St. Damien for the Sacred Heart Church in Pahoa in the district where the venerated priest first worked after being ordained in 1864.
WAILUKU » Officials are investigating the third death of an endangered Hawaiian monk seal on Molokai in recent weeks. The 17-month-old male seal was discovered Wednesday on the western side of the island, not far from where two other monk seals were found dead since mid-November.
President Barack Obama and his family spent a warm and sunny Tuesday afternoon at one of the most popular snorkeling spots on Oahu, where they released four green sea turtles into the water.
The second Vatican-authenticated miracle in allowing a nun to soon become St. Marianne Cope involves the healing of a New York woman who had an infection destroying her organs, nuns from her religious order have revealed.
The coqui is a tiny, coin-sized frog whose distinctive nightly mating calls are a beloved sound in Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands. But people in Hawaii don't share the same sentiment.
NORFOLK, Va. » The Navy has received congressional approval to buy two high-speed superferries from the U.S. Maritime Administration.
HILO » A Hilo man who is in jail on charges of nearly killing a coin dealer with a hammer has been accused of trying to hire someone to finish what he started, the Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported Friday.
SAN FRANCISCO » The so-called birther movement was dealt another legal blow Thursday when a federal appeals court tossed out a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship and his eligibility to serve as commander in chief.
An infant's ashes that were stolen from a Waialua home have been found at a beach and returned to the baby's mother, who thinks their careful positioning on some rock steps shows the burglar felt guilty and wanted to do the right thing.
A ceramic urn holding an infant's ashes was among the items stolen during a burglary of a Waialua home.
A group of Kauai residents has sued a major seed company, saying its genetically modified crops have led to pesticide-laden dust being blown onto homes for more than a decade.
Hawaii-based soldiers have helped hundreds of elementary school students in Waianae find out whether they need to wear eyeglasses.
A nearly blind Hawaiian monk seal found years ago trying to suckle a rock at a Kauai beach after his mother abandoned him is settling into his new home at the Waikiki Aquarium.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. » A driver in the next lane is moving his lips. Is he on a hands-free cellphone? Talking to someone in the car? To himself? Singing along to the radio?
A 12-year-old boy who underwent treatment for a brain tumor collected thousands of letters to help fund wishes for Hawaii children with life-threatening medical conditions.
Kalaupapa residents are pleased that a nun who cared for exiled Hansen's disease patients stands to become another saint with ties to the remote settlement.
Ah, Christmas traditions: colored lights, mistletoe and criticisms of a president's vacation plans. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is hammering President Barack Obama for playing golf and planning his usual family Christmas in Hawaii.
NEW YORK » Pregnant women who eat rice regularly might expose themselves and their fetuses to too much arsenic, possibly putting them at risk of premature births, researchers from Dartmouth College said.
SAN DIEGO » The California city that inspired "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," the 1982 comedy film that did much to propagate the laid-back surfer image, is now home to the world's first Center for Surf Research. And, no, it's not a clever way for college kids to earn their degrees by hanging out at the beach.
Lanya Olmstead was born in Florida to a mother who immigrated from Taiwan and an American father of Norwegian ancestry. Ethnically, she considers herself half Taiwanese and half Norwegian. But when applying to Harvard, Olmstead checked only one box for her race: white.
The Transportation Security Administration said Thursday that it is investigating allegations that screeners at Honolulu Airport have targeted Mexican travelers for extra screening.
Hawaii ranks third in the nation in funding programs to prevent children from smoking and help smokers quit, a coalition of public health groups said Wednesday.
Former Gov. Linda Lingle said Tuesday a federal proposal to designate areas on and around the main Hawaiian Islands as critical habitat for the endangered Hawaiian monk seal is insensitive and an example of "government overreach."
SAN ANTONIO » A former Kaneohe Marine given the nation's highest award for valor is suing a defense contractor that he says ridiculed his Medal of Honor, called him mentally unstable and suggested he had a drinking problem, thereby costing him a job.
The federal government has allocated nearly $100,000 to help Hawaii farmers and produce handlers become certified to grow and handle organic food.
HILO » James Clerk Maxwell Telescope managers are studying their options after the Netherlands announced it would withdraw its 20 percent partnership in the Mauna Kea facility in early 2013.
The Navy said it will re-evaluate a proposal to build a live-fire training range at the site of an ancient village on Guam after a lawsuit challenged its plans.
NORFOLK, Va. » The former commanding officer of a Navy shipyard in Virginia slapped a female worker on the shoulder and regularly yelled at his subordinates while using profanity, intimidating them, a Navy investigative report said.
The United States, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands should consider directing more U.S. grant money toward improving education and health care in the two Pacific island nations, according to a report released Monday by an investigative arm of Congress.
The Philippine Supreme Court today gave former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo permission to leave the country, overruling her successor, who has said she might never return because of a corruption investigation.
Morning commuters should expect "rolling closures of major roads" sometime between 8 and 10 a.m. today as world leaders make their way to the airport.
President Barack Obama on Sunday declared the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit a success that will strengthen the U.S. economy, and he expressed gratitude to his hometown for hosting representatives from the 21 APEC nations.
An independent review panel is leaning toward recommending that the city abolish property tax exemptions for roughly 150,000 Oahu homeowners, including the blind, elderly and disabled, as part of a major but controversial effort to bring more fairness, efficiency and accountability to the tax system while generating additional revenue for city services.
Freddie Keahi remembers what it felt like to see a car pull up to his family's Ewa Beach home in 1968 and hear the news: His 18-year-old brother, Gene Keahi, had been killed in the Vietnam War.
A Maui contractor removed the wreckage of a tour helicopter from a remote hillside in East Molokai on Sunday after Thursday's crash that killed all five people on board.
Eight small earthquakes rocked Kilauea Volcano after the lava lake at the summit caldera dropped in elevation Sunday, U.S. geologists reported.
Two Hawaiian sovereignty groups were among a smattering of protesters lining Farrington Highway Sunday hoping to deliver messages to world leaders and accompanying media gathered at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting at the J.W. Marriott Ihilani at Ko Olina.
Guitarist and singer Makana used his performance at an APEC dinner Saturday night with President Barack Obama and other world leaders as a chance to broadcast his support for the pro-Occupy Wall Street movement.
The USS Missouri Memorial Association received a $20,000 grant from Monsanto in support of its science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, educational programs.
While it may not have been fully apparent, a "sizeable portion" of the Hawaii National Guard's 5,500 troops were mobilized for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, a Guard spokesman said Sunday.
President vows to help keep Iran from nuclear arms • Obama laments Penn State abuse as ‘heartbreaking'
More than 1,000 members of the local Filipino community gave an enthusiastic welcome Sunday night to Philippine President Benigno Aquino III at the Hilton Hawaiian Village's Tapa Ballroom.
Churchgoers trying to get to Sunday services became trapped in an unholy traffic mess on the H-1 freeway as police and military crews closed the westbound corridor to make way for motorcades carrying world leaders to Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meetings at Ko Olina.
First lady Michelle Obama presented sterling-silver orchid brooches and sterling silver cufflinks with Hawaiian koa wood to the leaders and spouses who gathered for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
On a bluff beneath soaring cliffs with a panoramic view of Kaneohe Bay, first lady Michelle Obama showcased Hawaii's natural beauty as well as its bounty Sunday at a luncheon for the spouses of Pacific leaders at Kualoa Ranch.
Two of Asia's top leaders -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda -- made their first official visits to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific Saturday morning and paid tribute to America's service members and their families.
KAHULUI, Maui » Just days ago, Pennsylvania resident David Abel was awaiting the return of his son Michael and his son's new bride, Nicole, after their two-week honeymoon in Hawaii. Now, Abel said their families are waiting for the bodies of the two to be returned to Pittsburgh for burial.
State transportation officials believe more than 59,000 government-funded transportation survey invitations mailed out last month failed to reach Oahu residents' mailboxes until after the deadline printed on the invitations for residents to participate.
The first lady of Malaysia dropped by Palolo Elementary on Saturday to praise teachers and staff for stimulating student achievement despite big challenges and to donate $10,000 to help the school push ahead with its sustainability curriculum.
College interns who help run one of the island's largest organic farms guided first lady Michelle Obama through fields of salad greens and papayas Saturday, then sat down to swap stories with her about their efforts to improve the health of their communities.
President Barack Obama made Honolulu the venue for declaring a shift in his focus away from the prolonged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the Asia-Pacific region with all its economic promise.
Even with clogged traffic, closed streets and other security hassles affecting parts of Waikiki, Florida visitor Danielle Melton, 25, has been living a dream the past two days.
Marilyn "Mary Kaye" Ritz of Kailua, a religion and ethics writer at The Honolulu Advertiser before its merger with the Star-Bulletin, died Saturday in Honolulu. She was 51.
Searching for help, President Barack Obama lobbied the skeptical leaders of Russia and China on Saturday for support in keeping Iran from becoming a nuclear-armed menace to the world, hoping to yield a "common response" to a deepening problem.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcomed the leaders and representatives from 20 other Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation nations with a luau, hula and a Hawaiian proverb at the Hale Koa Hotel behind tight security that disrupted Saturday night traffic through Waikiki.
About 300 loud but peaceful protesters marched a mile from Moiliili to Waikiki Saturday afternoon in a rally against the globalization policies of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation nations.
Despite the large security presence around the island for APEC, a Honolulu Police Department official said they haven't seen the drop in calls to police that they were expecting last week.
Police closed McCully Street where it intersects with Ala Wai Boulevard and Kalakaua Avenue for about a half-hour Saturday afternoon before determining that a blue suitcase and green sleeping bag left at a bus stop in the area were harmless.
Decades have not dimmed Hawaii's beauty, Noda says • Leader of Obama's alma mater entertains Russian president • There's no place like home, except in APEC's formal duds • Protocol
APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting • Spouses Luncheon • Hawaii-China CEO Forum: Transforming to Clean Energy • APEC China-Aloha Business Leaders' Night • Filipino Community Gala Dinner
A federal investigator will travel to an East Molokai ridge today to begin looking into what caused a Maui tour helicopter to crash Thursday, killing all five people aboard.
The new director of the state Office of Veterans Services said Friday he wants to achieve federal shrine status for the Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery in Kaneohe.
On a bright and windy day, Adm. Robert Willard paid tribute to America's veterans, especially recognizing the nearly 30,000 service members missing in action, lost or buried at sea during the country's wars.
Free access to a range of computer programs for everyone from newbies to those seeking certification in Microsoft technology is now available through the Hawaii State Public Library System.
The United States' push to establish a free-trade zone in the Asia-Pacific region got a major boost Friday with Japan's announcement that it plans to join the negotiations.
Sales remained sluggish throughout Waikiki and drivers continued to suffer traffic delays Friday as some people across Oahu began to wonder whether the inconveniences of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit will result in the predicted $123 million economic boost for Hawaii.
A patient of the state psychiatric hospital in Kaneohe was still missing Friday after escaping from the facility Thursday, police said.
President Barack Obama arrived in Honolulu late Friday night ahead of this weekend's top-level talks of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
LOS ANGELES » Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they'll have a special ring to them this weekend for people in the western United States and eastern Asia: The moon will slide across the sun, blocking everything but a blazing halo of light.
A federal probe into how an air traffic controller's error put two jets in danger of colliding over Hawaii shows the worker didn't believe he was ready to direct aircraft from the radar station where he was assigned and had asked for more training.
WAILUKU, Maui » Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa doesn't want his county to have more than a dozen hostess bars.
HAMPTON, Va. » Some of the nation's 200 F-22 Raptor pilots want to be moved into other jobs because of oxygen-deficit problems with the stealth fighter, an Air Force leader said Monday.
HANALEI, Hawaii » It's a warm Tuesday afternoon on Kauai, and tourists are lining up — just a few at first, then a dozen or so.
LOS ANGELES » A researcher has spotted lava flows shaped like coils of rope near the equator of Mars, the first time such geologic features have been discovered outside of Earth.
The West's 2012 wildfire season exploded in earnest last month with a wind-whipped blaze that killed three people in rugged alpine canyon country near Denver.
North Korea's much-anticipated rocket launch ended quickly in failure early today, splintering into pieces over the Yellow Sea soon after takeoff.
The city is offering new board and commission members the option to complete mandatory Sunshine Law training online.
Legislation aimed at streamlining Hawaii's construction permitting process could have broad environmental and cultural consequences, some state officials worry.
HELENA, Mont. » Investigators knew early on that three Montana children reported missing in August had been living with their father and stepmother on a sailboat in the Bahamas, but could do nothing because of an arduous extradition process, police in Montana said.
Born in a Japanese fishing village just after his refugee family landed there in a desperate 1919 escape from Russia’s Bolshevik revolution, Roy Essoyan arrived in the Soviet Union nearly four decades later as an American journalist.
When a man entered the courtroom, jumped on District Judge Lono Lee's bench and broke in two a flagpole behind the judge Monday, Lee took matters into his own hands.
For those in the Northeast looking for palm trees and white sand to escape the remnants of winter, look no farther than Philadelphia.
Federal lawmakers announced Thursday they have obtained information previously unavailable to military investigators that proves the Navy should not have disqualified a Marine from being posthumously awarded America's highest military honor.
Kauai residents say they expect a big boost in tourists if the critically acclaimed movie "The Descendants" is a winner Sunday in the 84th annual Academy Awards.
Daniel Grabauskas, who stepped down as general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in 2009 amid political turmoil, was named as the finalist Friday to lead the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation as its chief executive officer.
A serial forgery artist with a 20-year rap sheet allegedly tried, after being released on probation, to buy two Waikiki jewelry kiosks last year with more than $60,000 in bogus checks drawn from an Oahu Community Correctional Center inmate trust account.
A national drug shortage is threatening to disrupt cancer therapy for 24-year-old Tammie Miura and at least 100 Hawaii patients who use the medicine as a main source of treatment.
A military jury on Thursday found a Hawaii-based Marine sergeant not guilty of hazing a lance corporal who later committed suicide in Afghanistan.
A new leader took over at the U.S. Pacific Fleet on Friday as Adm. Cecil Haney, former deputy of the U.S. Strategic Command, replaced Adm. Patrick Walsh, who is retiring. Haney, a former submarine squadron commander, told about 900 people at the change-of-command ceremony at Pearl Harbor that he plans to build on the foundation Walsh nurtured as he takes over the helm in an area that stretches from the U.S. West Coast to the Indian Ocean.
The Navy's top commander in the Pacific says he is concerned local arguments in disputed oil-rich waters near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea could escalate into larger, more serious confrontations.
KAUNAKAKAI » The U.S. Coast Guard has established a temporary security zone for when an American Safari Cruises tour returns to Molokai this weekend.
More people are setting sail for Hawaii. More than 104,000 travelers arrived in the islands on cruise ships -- mostly from the West Coast -- in the first 11 months of last year, according to the most recent data available.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack toured Pearl Harbor on a visit Tuesday meant to highlight the Obama administration's commitment to renewable energy.
Kona coffee growers want Hawaii's labeling law modified to provide more details on packages of coffee blends that contain Hawaii-grown beans. Currently, coffee blends sold in the state that contain Hawaii-grown coffee must disclose what percentage is grown in the islands, and it must be at least 10 percent.
HILO » The former student charged with making threats against security staff at the Hawaii island campus of Kamehameha Schools has been charged with making threats against police.
The family of a Seattle sailor said Tuesday they had remained hopeful that he would be found because he had been feared lost at sea before.
PORTLAND, Ore. » Paul Stanford's business is medical marijuana, and he is the nation's leading gateway to the drug. In Oregon, Hawaii, Michigan and three other states where it's legal, he charges a small fee for access to sympathetic doctors.
HILO » A Hawaii island sculptor is creating a life-size statue of St. Damien for the Sacred Heart Church in Pahoa in the district where the venerated priest first worked after being ordained in 1864.
WAILUKU » Officials are investigating the third death of an endangered Hawaiian monk seal on Molokai in recent weeks. The 17-month-old male seal was discovered Wednesday on the western side of the island, not far from where two other monk seals were found dead since mid-November.
President Barack Obama and his family spent a warm and sunny Tuesday afternoon at one of the most popular snorkeling spots on Oahu, where they released four green sea turtles into the water.
WASHINGTON » Americans probably won't be seeing a huge ticker-tape parade any time soon for troops returning from Iraq, and it's not clear whether veterans of the nine-year campaign will ever enjoy the grand, flag-waving, red-white-and-blue homecoming that the nation's fighting men and women received after World War II and the Gulf War.
The second Vatican-authenticated miracle in allowing a nun to soon become St. Marianne Cope involves the healing of a New York woman who had an infection destroying her organs, nuns from her religious order have revealed.
The coqui is a tiny, coin-sized frog whose distinctive nightly mating calls are a beloved sound in Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands. But people in Hawaii don't share the same sentiment.
NORFOLK, Va. » The Navy has received congressional approval to buy two high-speed superferries from the U.S. Maritime Administration.
HILO » A Hilo man who is in jail on charges of nearly killing a coin dealer with a hammer has been accused of trying to hire someone to finish what he started, the Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported Friday.
SAN FRANCISCO » The so-called birther movement was dealt another legal blow Thursday when a federal appeals court tossed out a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship and his eligibility to serve as commander in chief.
An infant's ashes that were stolen from a Waialua home have been found at a beach and returned to the baby's mother, who thinks their careful positioning on some rock steps shows the burglar felt guilty and wanted to do the right thing.
A ceramic urn holding an infant's ashes was among the items stolen during a burglary of a Waialua home.
A group of Kauai residents has sued a major seed company, saying its genetically modified crops have led to pesticide-laden dust being blown onto homes for more than a decade.
Hawaii-based soldiers have helped hundreds of elementary school students in Waianae find out whether they need to wear eyeglasses.
A nearly blind Hawaiian monk seal found years ago trying to suckle a rock at a Kauai beach after his mother abandoned him is settling into his new home at the Waikiki Aquarium.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. » A driver in the next lane is moving his lips. Is he on a hands-free cellphone? Talking to someone in the car? To himself? Singing along to the radio?
A 12-year-old boy who underwent treatment for a brain tumor collected thousands of letters to help fund wishes for Hawaii children with life-threatening medical conditions.
Kalaupapa residents are pleased that a nun who cared for exiled Hansen's disease patients stands to become another saint with ties to the remote settlement.
Ah, Christmas traditions: colored lights, mistletoe and criticisms of a president's vacation plans. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is hammering President Barack Obama for playing golf and planning his usual family Christmas in Hawaii.
NEW YORK » Pregnant women who eat rice regularly might expose themselves and their fetuses to too much arsenic, possibly putting them at risk of premature births, researchers from Dartmouth College said.
SAN DIEGO » The California city that inspired "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," the 1982 comedy film that did much to propagate the laid-back surfer image, is now home to the world's first Center for Surf Research. And, no, it's not a clever way for college kids to earn their degrees by hanging out at the beach.
Lanya Olmstead was born in Florida to a mother who immigrated from Taiwan and an American father of Norwegian ancestry. Ethnically, she considers herself half Taiwanese and half Norwegian. But when applying to Harvard, Olmstead checked only one box for her race: white.
The Transportation Security Administration said Thursday that it is investigating allegations that screeners at Honolulu Airport have targeted Mexican travelers for extra screening.
Hawaii ranks third in the nation in funding programs to prevent children from smoking and help smokers quit, a coalition of public health groups said Wednesday.
Former Gov. Linda Lingle said Tuesday a federal proposal to designate areas on and around the main Hawaiian Islands as critical habitat for the endangered Hawaiian monk seal is insensitive and an example of "government overreach."
SAN ANTONIO » A former Kaneohe Marine given the nation's highest award for valor is suing a defense contractor that he says ridiculed his Medal of Honor, called him mentally unstable and suggested he had a drinking problem, thereby costing him a job.
The federal government has allocated nearly $100,000 to help Hawaii farmers and produce handlers become certified to grow and handle organic food.
HILO » James Clerk Maxwell Telescope managers are studying their options after the Netherlands announced it would withdraw its 20 percent partnership in the Mauna Kea facility in early 2013.
The Navy said it will re-evaluate a proposal to build a live-fire training range at the site of an ancient village on Guam after a lawsuit challenged its plans.
NORFOLK, Va. » The former commanding officer of a Navy shipyard in Virginia slapped a female worker on the shoulder and regularly yelled at his subordinates while using profanity, intimidating them, a Navy investigative report said.
The United States, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands should consider directing more U.S. grant money toward improving education and health care in the two Pacific island nations, according to a report released Monday by an investigative arm of Congress.
The Philippine Supreme Court today gave former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo permission to leave the country, overruling her successor, who has said she might never return because of a corruption investigation.
Morning commuters should expect "rolling closures of major roads" sometime between 8 and 10 a.m. today as world leaders make their way to the airport.
President Barack Obama on Sunday declared the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit a success that will strengthen the U.S. economy, and he expressed gratitude to his hometown for hosting representatives from the 21 APEC nations.
An independent review panel is leaning toward recommending that the city abolish property tax exemptions for roughly 150,000 Oahu homeowners, including the blind, elderly and disabled, as part of a major but controversial effort to bring more fairness, efficiency and accountability to the tax system while generating additional revenue for city services.
Freddie Keahi remembers what it felt like to see a car pull up to his family's Ewa Beach home in 1968 and hear the news: His 18-year-old brother, Gene Keahi, had been killed in the Vietnam War.
A Maui contractor removed the wreckage of a tour helicopter from a remote hillside in East Molokai on Sunday after Thursday's crash that killed all five people on board.
Eight small earthquakes rocked Kilauea Volcano after the lava lake at the summit caldera dropped in elevation Sunday, U.S. geologists reported.
Two Hawaiian sovereignty groups were among a smattering of protesters lining Farrington Highway Sunday hoping to deliver messages to world leaders and accompanying media gathered at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting at the J.W. Marriott Ihilani at Ko Olina.
Guitarist and singer Makana used his performance at an APEC dinner Saturday night with President Barack Obama and other world leaders as a chance to broadcast his support for the pro-Occupy Wall Street movement.
The USS Missouri Memorial Association received a $20,000 grant from Monsanto in support of its science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, educational programs.
While it may not have been fully apparent, a "sizeable portion" of the Hawaii National Guard's 5,500 troops were mobilized for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, a Guard spokesman said Sunday.
President vows to help keep Iran from nuclear arms • Obama laments Penn State abuse as ‘heartbreaking'
More than 1,000 members of the local Filipino community gave an enthusiastic welcome Sunday night to Philippine President Benigno Aquino III at the Hilton Hawaiian Village's Tapa Ballroom.
Churchgoers trying to get to Sunday services became trapped in an unholy traffic mess on the H-1 freeway as police and military crews closed the westbound corridor to make way for motorcades carrying world leaders to Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meetings at Ko Olina.
First lady Michelle Obama presented sterling-silver orchid brooches and sterling silver cufflinks with Hawaiian koa wood to the leaders and spouses who gathered for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
On a bluff beneath soaring cliffs with a panoramic view of Kaneohe Bay, first lady Michelle Obama showcased Hawaii's natural beauty as well as its bounty Sunday at a luncheon for the spouses of Pacific leaders at Kualoa Ranch.
Two of Asia's top leaders -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda -- made their first official visits to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific Saturday morning and paid tribute to America's service members and their families.
KAHULUI, Maui » Just days ago, Pennsylvania resident David Abel was awaiting the return of his son Michael and his son's new bride, Nicole, after their two-week honeymoon in Hawaii. Now, Abel said their families are waiting for the bodies of the two to be returned to Pittsburgh for burial.
State transportation officials believe more than 59,000 government-funded transportation survey invitations mailed out last month failed to reach Oahu residents' mailboxes until after the deadline printed on the invitations for residents to participate.
The first lady of Malaysia dropped by Palolo Elementary on Saturday to praise teachers and staff for stimulating student achievement despite big challenges and to donate $10,000 to help the school push ahead with its sustainability curriculum.
College interns who help run one of the island's largest organic farms guided first lady Michelle Obama through fields of salad greens and papayas Saturday, then sat down to swap stories with her about their efforts to improve the health of their communities.
President Barack Obama made Honolulu the venue for declaring a shift in his focus away from the prolonged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the Asia-Pacific region with all its economic promise.
Even with clogged traffic, closed streets and other security hassles affecting parts of Waikiki, Florida visitor Danielle Melton, 25, has been living a dream the past two days.
Marilyn "Mary Kaye" Ritz of Kailua, a religion and ethics writer at The Honolulu Advertiser before its merger with the Star-Bulletin, died Saturday in Honolulu. She was 51.
Searching for help, President Barack Obama lobbied the skeptical leaders of Russia and China on Saturday for support in keeping Iran from becoming a nuclear-armed menace to the world, hoping to yield a "common response" to a deepening problem.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcomed the leaders and representatives from 20 other Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation nations with a luau, hula and a Hawaiian proverb at the Hale Koa Hotel behind tight security that disrupted Saturday night traffic through Waikiki.
About 300 loud but peaceful protesters marched a mile from Moiliili to Waikiki Saturday afternoon in a rally against the globalization policies of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation nations.
Despite the large security presence around the island for APEC, a Honolulu Police Department official said they haven't seen the drop in calls to police that they were expecting last week.
Police closed McCully Street where it intersects with Ala Wai Boulevard and Kalakaua Avenue for about a half-hour Saturday afternoon before determining that a blue suitcase and green sleeping bag left at a bus stop in the area were harmless.
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A federal investigator will travel to an East Molokai ridge today to begin looking into what caused a Maui tour helicopter to crash Thursday, killing all five people aboard.
The new director of the state Office of Veterans Services said Friday he wants to achieve federal shrine status for the Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery in Kaneohe.
On a bright and windy day, Adm. Robert Willard paid tribute to America's veterans, especially recognizing the nearly 30,000 service members missing in action, lost or buried at sea during the country's wars.
Free access to a range of computer programs for everyone from newbies to those seeking certification in Microsoft technology is now available through the Hawaii State Public Library System.
The United States' push to establish a free-trade zone in the Asia-Pacific region got a major boost Friday with Japan's announcement that it plans to join the negotiations.
Sales remained sluggish throughout Waikiki and drivers continued to suffer traffic delays Friday as some people across Oahu began to wonder whether the inconveniences of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit will result in the predicted $123 million economic boost for Hawaii.
A patient of the state psychiatric hospital in Kaneohe was still missing Friday after escaping from the facility Thursday, police said.
President Barack Obama arrived in Honolulu late Friday night ahead of this weekend's top-level talks of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says global trends and world events "have given us a full and formidable agenda, and the stakes are high for all of us."
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