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Was TWA Flight 800 crash accidental

Skeptics who have long theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by sinister forces will get a fresh surge of energy when a new documentary attempts to disprove that the 1996 crash was ...
Plan to replace wooden power poles draws fire

dayTonight a closer look at what is shaping up to a battle of David and some true Goliaths on Oahu, This is no tall tale. It's about tall power poles that could go up in YOUR neighborhood one day. KITV4's Catherine Cruz has an exclusive look at this neck-craning battle. Colin Davis remembers vividly the day things changed for him last year. - Colin Davis 21:05 21:10 "We left ...
Kailua residents see spike in home burglaries

Some people are worried Kailua is becoming CRIME-lua, and the latest victim is University of Hawaii's basketball coach Gib Arnold. His house was just burglarizedand KITV4's Brenton Awa is live with tonight's top story.. BrentonSome worry on the windward side! Yunji -- They do worryAnd for pretty good reason. We went door to door today and spoke with over a half a dozen ...
3 women fall 60 ft. into ravine on Maui while driving

HANA, MAUI (HawaiiNewsNow) - Three women in a vehicle traveling to Wailuku on Hana Highway went off the side of the road and ended up 60 ft. below in a ravine Tuesday night. The accident occurred at mile marker 21.5 on the Paia side of Puaa Kaa State Park. Personnel from the Hana fire station and a rescue company from Kahului responded to the scene. The Hana fire crew arrived and met with ...
Chinatown bakery owner alarmed by gunman caught on camera

CHINATOWN (HawaiiNewsNow) - A Chinatown bakery owner is alarmed by what his surveillance cameras captured. The encounter involved one of his workers, but he is concerned about the entire community. The owner of Otto Cake said he has dealt with threats from drug dealers and even assaults in the last year and a half. He installed several surveillance cameras a few months ago. His bakery is at the ...

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Homeowners talk about party that preceded fatal crash

The homeowner says it was a 16th birthday party for his son's coworker's sister. It was supposed be kept to 15-20 people but it quickly became much more than ...
Royal Kona Coffee body scrub

Are you having one of those chaotic mornings where you wish you could just start the day over? As you prepare for work you start daydreaming. You imagine how fun your summer vacation will be. You even start to lose track of time. You ponder the thought of what it would be like to live in a palace and drink coffee like royalty. The palace would be beautifully decorated just like the Royal ...
Information on unscheduled cane fires sought

WAILUKU, MAUI (HawaiiNewsNow) - The County of Maui Department of Fire and Public Safety is asking for the public's help in identifying the person or persons involved in the setting of eight unscheduled cane field fires over the last two months. The fires first began in May with the latest taking place Monday afternoon. So far the fires have caused no injuries although Hawaiian Commercial ...
Transit officials unveil new stations

More open space, a smaller structure and a Hawaiian sense of place. That's the new look of the rail stations planned along the city's $5.3 billion mass transit line, which transit officials say will shave off $100 million in costs. Officials with the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transit unveiled the first of its 21 stations -- the Westloch Rail Station in Waipahu -- which ...
Adults can be sued for underage drinking on their property

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawai'i's social host liability law is in the spotlight after a deadly crash in Makaha involving underage teens who were allegedly drinking at a home beforehand. Not only is it illegal to give alcohol to minors, but here in Hawai'i – adults can be sued for giving alcohol to anyone under 21 and they in turn, damage property or hurt or kill ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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Martian clay contains chemical implicated in origin of life

Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa NASA Astrobiology Institute (UHNAI) have discovered high concentrations of boron in a Martian meteorite.

When present in its oxidized form (borate), boron may have played a key role in the formation of RNA, one of the building blocks for life.

The Antarctic Search for Meteorites team found the Martian meteorite used in this study in Antarctica during its 2009-2010 field season. The minerals it contains, as well as its chemical composition, clearly show that it is of Martian origin.

Using the ion microprobe in the W. M. Keck Cosmochemistry Laboratory at UH, the team was able to analyze veins of Martian clay in the meteorite. After ruling out contamination from Earth, they determined boron abundances in these clays are over ten times higher than in any previously measured meteorite.

"Borates may have been important for the origin of life on Earth because they can stabilize ribose, a crucial component of RNA. In early life RNA is thought to have been the informational precursor to DNA," said James Stephenson, a UHNAI postdoctoral fellow.

RNA may have been the first molecule to store information and pass it on to the next generation, a mechanism crucial for evolution. ...