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Waikiki surfboard racks fire classified as arson; man arrested at scene released
Honolulu police arrested a 43-year-old man at 11:48 a.m. near the scene on suspicion of arson. He was released at 9:30 Sunday night. Read more
Honolulu police arrested a 43-year-old man at 11:48 a.m. near the scene on suspicion of arson. He was released at 9:30 Sunday night. Read more
Maui County Mayor Michael Victorino tested negative for COVID-19 last weekend after meeting days earlier with three unvaccinated county residents, two of whom came down with the virus, his office said. Read more
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, had set a deadline of Monday for thousands of state employees, including the Cougars’ coach, to be vaccinated. Read more
Today’s new infection count by island includes 54 new cases on Oahu, 29 on Hawaii island, 13 each on Maui and Kauai, and eight Hawaii residents diagnosed outside the state. Read more
Powell rose from a childhood in a fraying New York neighborhood to become the nation’s chief diplomat. Read more
Former President Donald Trump was questioned today in a deposition for a lawsuit brought by protesters who say his security team roughed them up in the early days of his presidential campaign in 2015. Read more
A Honolulu man was cited by state Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement officers Saturday for illegal laynet fishing at night. Read more
A red placard was issued to Kamana Indian Cuisine Restaurant in the Waterfront Row Shopping Center. Read more
Infectious disease expert Tim Brown of the East-West Center joins the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s “Spotlight Hawaii” to take viewer questions. Read more
Texas Republicans approved on Monday redrawn U.S. House maps that favor incumbents and decrease political representation for growing minority communities, even as Latinos drive much of the growth in the nation’s largest red state. Read more
The surge for GameStop and other downtrodden stocks also laid bare how much power is being wielded by a new generation of smaller-pocketed and novice investors, armed with apps on their phones that make trading fun. Read more
Los Angeles County is seeking to compel psychiatric evaluations for Kobe Bryant’s widow and others to determine if they truly suffered emotional distress after first responders took and shared graphic photos from the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed the basketball star, his teenage daughter and seven others, court documents say. Read more
“The CO2 RUN DWN” runs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 1 p.m. and feature insights, interviews and commentary from the former CFL most valuable player and UH all-time career yardage leader. Read more
Kauai police and members of the community had been searching for Joddielynn Taylor, 56, who was reported as missing on Oct. 9. Read more
New Zealand counted its most new coronavirus cases of the pandemic Tuesday as an outbreak in its largest city grew and officials urged vaccinations as a way out of Auckland’s two-month lockdown. Read more
The high court ordered Texas to respond by Thursday. Read more
Stocks wobbled to a mixed finish on Wall Street as the market’s momentum slowed down following its best week since July. Read more
Paul McCartney and Taylor Swift will induct newcomers into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during its annual ceremony, set for Cleveland on Oct. 30. Read more
Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader declared for the first time that his powerful militant group has 100,000 trained fighters, apparently meant as a deterrent to domestic foes following the nation’s worst internal violence in years. Read more
Earlier this month, NATO withdrew the accreditation of eight Russian officials to its Brussels headquarters, saying it believes they have been secretly working as Russian intelligence officers. Read more
Sinclair Broadcast Group, which operates dozens of TV stations across the U.S., said some of its servers and work stations were encrypted with ransomware and that data was stolen from its network. Read more
