| USC holds off Hawaii 49-36 The No. 14-ranked Southern California Trojans shook off a pesky University of Hawaii football team to secure a 49-36 victory last night before 41,777 at Aloha Stadium. USC (1-0) sophomore... | |
| Jewelry Heist Nets Thieves $300K Orly Maor is a wholesale jeweler who said she usually never goes shopping while she has her merchandise in the car. On Wednesday she thought just doing a few quick errands wouldn't be a problem but... |
| Oahu Absentee Voters To Get New Ballots Absentee voters in two precincts on Oahu are getting new ballots because of a printing error involving the state Senate District 25 race.The Honolulu Star-Advertiser quoted the state Elections Office... |
| Bone Drugs May Raise Risk Of Throat Cancer People who take bone-strengthening drugs for several years may have a slightly higher risk of esophageal cancer, a new study suggests. The findings are in contrast to another recent study that used... |
| Giant Telescope On Big Island Plans Advance The draft conservation district use application to build the world's largest telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island has advanced.The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports the University of... |
| Kauai Switches Off For Endangered Seabirds Kauai plans to limit lighting at public facilities as much as possible to protect endangered seabirds.The county outlines the aim in a Seabird Habitat Conservation Plan it submitted to authorities... |
| American Samoa To Ban Plastic Bags In 2011 American Samoa is going to make it illegal for stores to hand out plastic bags once a new law goes into effect early next year.Gov. Togiola Tulafono signed the ban into law last week. He said the... |
| Officials ID Man Who Died In Laundry Chute The Honolulu city medical examiner's office has identified a man who died in a laundry chute as 47-year-old Keith Chinen.Police told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that Chinen died after getting stuck... |
| HI Senate Confirms Recktenwald Nomination State senators on Thursday unanimously approved the nomination of Mark Recktenwald to be Hawaii's next Supreme Court Chief Justice.Full senate approval came after Recktenwald's unanimous approval... |
| Hyatt Regency Waikiki Hit With 1-Day Strike Workers at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki are hitting the hotel with a one-day strike.Their union, Unite Here Local 5, said the job action began at 3:30 a.m. Thursday and is set to end at about 9:30 p.m.... |
| Army Judge Axes Obama Birth Record Request A military judge in Maryland has ruled that President Barack Obama's birth certificate is irrelevant in the case of an Army doctor charged with disobeying deployment orders because he doubts Obama's... |
| Man arrested after two threatened, robbed A 26-year-old man was being held at Oahu Community Correctional Center on $75,000 bail for allegedly robbing and threatening two other men last week.Police said Randy Q. Gaoiran had gotten into an... |
| Diver's Mom Wants Boat Owner Prosecuted The mother of a skin diver killed by a fishing boat said she wants to know why the the boat owner has not been prosecuted. Eleven months ago, Keahihoku Lum, 17, bled to death after a 26-foot boat ran... |
| Faulty ballots raise election concerns email The names of all candidates for state senate district 25 (Hawaii Kai, Waimanalo, Kailua) are missing from 1,600 absentee ballots mailed to voters in Hawaii Kai. New ballots with all candidate... |
| A battle of the bands over the Hawaii Five-O theme song email HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Football players weren't the only ones with their game faces on Thursday. A battle of the bands was brewing before the big game between the University of... |
| Economy scores from USC game email WAIKIKI (HawaiiNewsNow) - It's a game measured by dollars and cents and USC football fans are running up a tally. A room at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel is USC central, selling shirts from... |
| Police close Kamehameha Highway in Mililani Police patrol officers closed the northbound lanes of Kamehameha Highway between Kipapa Bridge and Lanikuhana Street in Mililani after a car overturned car there about 3:47 p.m.today, police dispatch... |
| Pearl Harbor Marks 65th Anniversary Of WWII's End PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- Don Fosburg recalled friends and family killed in World War II as he marked the 65th anniversary of the end of the conflict on Thursday. "You start thinking about all the guys... |
| 4 More Devices Linked To Discovery Gunman A fire chief said crews detonated four explosives linked to a gunman who took three hostages at Discovery Communications headquarters in Maryland. Montgomery County Fire Chief Richard Bowers said... |
| Reason Foundation: Hawaii's roads among nation's worst . Based on the most recent data available, Hawaii ranks 47th out of the 50 states for state highway performance and cost effectiveness, according to the foundation’s 19th-annual Highway Report... |
| 'Blue Economy' conference set for Sept. 13-17 More than 500 business leaders and policymakers are expected to attend a conference on sustainable business innovations at the Honolulu Convention Center from Sept. 13-17. “The Blue... |
| Alaska Air Group reports 10% gain in August traffic Alaska Airlines , is reporting a 10 percent increase in traffic for the month of August after increasing its capacity by 7.1 percent. As a result, Alaska Airlines showed a 2.2 percent increase in... |
| Aloha Pacific Federal CU plans Las Vegas branch Aloha Pacific Federal Credit Union said it will open a branch in Las Vegas in November. Aloha Pacific is the first Hawaii-based credit union to open an out-of-state branch, according to a statement... |
| Hawaii stocks mixed on Thursday trading Hawaii stocks were mixed amid overall positive trading on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 10,320.10, up 50.63 for the day, while the Nasdaq was up 23.17 to close at 2,200.01. ... |
| AAA Hawaii: Gas down 3 cents a gallon AAA Hawaii . The average price in Honolulu, as reported on Thursday, was $3.34 a gallon, down 2 cents from last week but still 13 cents more than this time last year. Hilo on the Big Island also... |
| Hurricane Earl begins pounding North Carolina's Outer Banks BUXTON, N.C. >> The last ferry left for the mainland and coastal residents hunkered down at home as Hurricane Earl closed in with 115 mph winds today on North Carolina's dangerously exposed... |
| Atlantis Adventures CEO to chair HTA board Ron Williams, CEO of Atlantis Adventures, has been selected as chairman of the Hawaii Tourism Authority board of directors. Williams succeeds Kelvin Bloom, president of Aston Hotels & Resorts,... |
| Hawaii's highway conditions ranked among worst in nation Hawaii is 47th in the nation, when it comes to highway conditions, according to a study released today by Los Angeles-based think tank Reason Foundation.Hawaii is ranked worst in the nation when it... |
| Trial opens for photographer accused of touching students inappropriately email HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A 10-year-old girl testified at Circuit Court Thursday morning that she felt "scared and nervous" when a photographer allegedly pressed his groin area against her... |
| Recktenwald confirmed as Hawaii chief justice Hawaii Supreme Court Associate Justice Mark E. Recktenwald has been confirmed as Hawaii’s next chief justice. The full state Senate unanimously confirmed his appointment Thursday, following... |
| Atlantis CEO Ron Williams will chair HTA on Thursday. Williams, president and CEO of Atlantis Adventures, one of Hawaii’s largest ocean tour operators, takes over immediately and succeeds Kelvin Bloom, who remains an HTA board... |
| Hyatt Regency Waikiki workers staging one-day strike Workers at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki are staging a one-day strike today, saying that talks with management have gone nowhere. The protest began at 3:30 a.m. and will last until about 9:30 p.m.,... |
| New ballots will go out tomorrow to replace 1,600 mailed with errors The state Elections Office said this morning it will be sending out new ballots by tomorrow to some 1,600 absentee voters in two precincts of Portlock-Hawaii Kai to correct omissions on ballots sent... |
| Feds accuse 6 people of forcing 400 immigrants to work on Hawaii, Washington farms A newly unsealed federal indictment accuses six people of exploiting the labor of about 400 workers from Thailand, forcing them to work on farms in Hawaii and Washington state.The indictment unsealed... |
| California company latest to target Hawaii for electric cars A small automaker based in Southern California is the latest company to announce plans to sell electric vehicles in Hawaii. Privately-held Coda Automotive said it expects to deliver its first... |
| Shinseki, Inouye mark anniversary of war's end aboard USS Missouri Above 700 people were present today at a ceremony on the decommissioned battleship Missouri commemorating the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II.Japan formally surrendered on the deck of the... |
| Recktenwald confirmed as state's next chief justice The Senate today voted unanimously to approve Gov. Linda Lingle’s appointment of Associate Justice Mark Recktenwald to a 10-year term as the state’s fifth chief justice.Recktenwald, 54,... |
| Aloha Pacific Federal Credit Union is going Vegas Hawaii’s third-largest credit union plans to open a branch in Las Vegas in November. The company, which was established in 1936 by city employees and has about $700 million in assets, acquired... |
| Hawaiian Airlines offering passengers sneak peak of Hawaii Five-0 Hawaii Five-0 television series. Under an exclusive marketing agreement with the show’s producers, Hawaiian Airlines is airing the debut episode of the Honolulu crime drama series remake on... |
| City plans new fire station for Ewa Beach The city has awarded a contract to build a new fire station at Ocean Pointe in Ewa Beach.City officials said today that the project is expected to cost $4.6 million. Kodama Okamoto Architects Inc.... |
| OCCC inmate died of natural causes, medical examiner says The death of a 37-year-old female inmate at Oahu Community Correctional Center in July was from natural causes, the Honolulu Medical Examiner's office said today.Renee Lessary died from a heart... |
| Discovery suspect from Maui Lahainaluna classmates remembered James J. Lee as a talented artist, comic-book fan and something of an outsider who was picked on in school.Lee was identified Wednesday as the man who held two... |
| 3 hostages taken in apparent protest SILVER SPRING, Md. - A man who railed against the Discovery Channel's environmental programming for years burst into the company's headquarters with at least one explosive device strapped to his body... |
| Rezoning tabled for Kaanapali courses WAILUKU - The Maui County Council's Land Use Committee at least temporarily rejected a bill on Wednesday that would have diminished the real estate value of the struggling Royal Ka'anapali and... |
| A&B to study effects of proposed development WAILUKU - Sixty years ago, when Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. was drawing up the plans for Dream City, its managers foresaw the day when Kahului would extend to what was then called Waiale... |
| Surgeon: Stab victim appeared brain dead throughout surgery WAILUKU - After receiving continuous transfusions and undergoing about five hours of surgery for a stab wound to his abdomen, a 33-year-old Kahului man lost about three times the volume of blood in... |
| 65th Anniversary Of World War II's End Marked Veterans Secretary Eric Shinseki is due to deliver the keynote address at a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II.Thursday's ceremony is being held aboard the now... |
| State Senate To Vote On Recktenwald Nomination The state Senate is set to vote on the nomination of Mark Recktenwald to become the next Hawaii Supreme Court chief justice.It is expected to approve Gov. Linda Lingle's choice on Thursday.On... |
| Shinseki, Inouye to speak at ceremony marking end of World War II Veterans Secretary Eric Shinseki is due to deliver the keynote address at a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II.Today's ceremony is being held aboard the now... |
