News http://www.staradvertiser.com/news RSS Feed for News en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 11:47:56 GMT 'Send us your prayers' http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20130521__send_us_your_prayers.html MOORE, Okla. » Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin spoke directly to citizens in her devastated state Monday night, saying "we are looking under every single piece of debris" for the missing after a massive tornado tore across parts of Oklahoma City and its suburbs. Corrections and Clarifications http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20130521_corrections_and_clarifications.html The Honolulu Star-Advertiser strives to make its news report fair and accurate. If you have a question or comment about news coverage, call Ed Lynch, managing editor/news, at 529-4758. To get the word on the street, lawyers and judges go online http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20130521_To_get_the_word_on_the_street_lawyers_and_judges_go_online.html The wheels of justice move slowly sometimes, but not, apparently, as slowly as Webster's New World Dictionary. Slang has always been a challenge for the courts in cases that involve vulgar or insulting language. Conventional dictionaries lag the spoken word by design. Death rate rises for migrants who take riskier paths to U.S. http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20130521_Death_rate_rises_for_migrants_who_take_riskier_paths_to_US.html TUCSON, Ariz. » In the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office here — repository of the nation's largest collection of missing-person reports for immigrants who vanished crossing the United States-Mexico border — 774 sets of remains awaited identification in mid-May, stored in musty body bags coated in dust. Obituaries http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20130521_Obituaries.html Perfecta Faye Antolin • Lori Miyoko Suyeoka Chong • Louis Leong Chun • Robert C. Fafard Sr. • Ernest Garcia • Pamela Sue Gorman • Michie Hayashida • Daryl Collins Kahahane • JoAnn Piilani Kahee, and more Schools to cancel extra learning time http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20130520_Schools_to_cancel_extra_learning_time.html Hawaii's Department of Education is scaling back a move to provide extra learning time for struggling schools. Bold growth plans at hollywood studios http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/19040101_Bold_growth_plans_at_hollywood_studios.html LOS ANGELES — Film counts are down. Production is going elsewhere. And yet big Hollywood studios are planning to expand. Indonesian strongman's legacy remains a matter of debate http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/19040101_Indonesian_strongmans_legacy_remains_a_matter_of_debate.html JAKARTA, Indonesia — Tree-lined Cendana street in an upscale neighborhood in central Jakarta has not changed much in recent decades, save for the demolition of a few Dutch colonial homes in favor of modernist villas. Obituaries http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20130520_obituaries.html Yaeko Uyehara Ginoza • Wallace Yuk Fon Kam • Ian Kent Kobayashi; and more Pakistan, rusting in its tracks http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/19040101_Pakistan_rusting_in_its_tracks.html RUK, Pakistan — Resplendent in his gleaming white uniform and peaked cap, jacket buttons tugging his plump girth, the stationmaster stood at the platform, waiting for a train that would never come. "Cutbacks," Nisar Ahmed Abro said with a resigned shrug.