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Gov. Linda Lingle suggested yesterday that the problem of Furlough Fridays in the state's public schools is a result of having an elected Board of Education. More

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Republican Gov. Linda Lingle went on the attack yesterday, charging that the Democratic-controlled state Legislature is not being truthful in dealing with the state budget deficits. More

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A 39-year-old California man was fatally injured yesterday morning in a one-car crash in the H-3 tunnel that may have involved U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. More

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A 31-year-old Schofield Barracks soldier will face a general court-martial, probably this summer, for allegedly killing a civilian contractor after a daylong standoff at a military base in Iraq last year. More

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A Schofield Barracks soldier has been awarded the Silver Star medal for saving the lives of five Iraqi policemen and other American soldiers during a 48-hour firefight in Iraq three years ago. More

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An endorsement of Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann's gubernatorial campaign by the Hawaii union representing longshoremen has caused its former president to quit two union-affiliated boards in protest. More

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Some fishermen say proposed state rules to impose limits for recreational bottom-fishing are unnecessary and lack scientific studies. "They're trying to impose things on us without any scientific proof," said Basil Oshiro, president of the Maui Cooperative Fishing Association. "As far as I know, there's an unlimited stock." More

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Navy Rear Adm. Scott R. Van Buskirk, chief of staff and deputy for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, has been nominated for a third star and appointed as commander of the 7th Fleet in Yokosuka, Japan. More

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The Federal Communications Commission is proposing an ambitious 10-year plan that will reimagine America's media and technology priorities by establishing high-speed Internet as the country's dominant communication network. More

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The arrest in Yemen of a New Jersey man accused of joining al-Qaida is the latest in an alarming string of cases involving radicalized American Muslims, a trend some experts link to the duration of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. More

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QUESTION: My mother was bedridden at home with hospice care. On Feb. 27, when there was a tsunami alert, the evacuation centers were not available to even transport my mom to them. I don't understand the logic. More

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A dedication ceremony was held yesterday for the first phase of Hale Wai Vista, a seven-story residential building with 83 affordable units. More

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Hawaii's economy is showing signs of recovery, but uncertainty remains about how long it will be before the state fully emerges from recession. More

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Leaders of several downtown Honolulu churches met yesterday with Mayor Mufi Hannemann in hopes of reviving a housing project for the chronically homeless stalled by community opposition. More

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Three elderly women escaped injury from an early-morning fire yesterday that destroyed a two-story house in Palolo Valley. More

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A developer who hopes to build 3,500 homes makai of the H-2 freeway says farmers working on the land have found another place to plant. More

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Lifeguards lifted the shark warning and resumed the search yesterday for a California surfer who disappeared in waters off Chun's Reef and Laniakea on Oahu's North Shore. More

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Marijuana advocate Roger Christie said Hawaii island police and federal agents raided his home and downtown Hilo offices Wednesday, seizing records, cash and marijuana he uses as a sacrament in his ministry. More

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The Legislature continues to explore moving the date for the primary election from Sept. 18 to Aug. 14 to comply with a new federal law. More

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The scientist who won the 1976 Nobel Prize for one of the greatest medical achievements of the 20th century—discovery of the hepatitis B virus and development of a vaccine to prevent it—says that was not his goal. More

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QUESTION: The license plate renewal for 2011 is a white-colored decal with black lettering, which is almost identical to the 2009 registration emblem. It's too close in resemblance, so people will not renew and basically will get a free ride for two years. Who decides the coloring for that? More

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COLUMBIA, S.C. >> Neighbors were chagrined last week when the police here found the body of an elderly woman who had frozen to death, alone in her house, during frigid weather. More

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TOKYO >> When an official at the Imperial Household Agency suddenly announced last week that 8-year-old Princess Aiko was refusing to go to school because of bullying, he did more than just disclose a mundane problem facing a member of Japan's ancient and secretive monarchy. More

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For more than 15 years, medical hope for House Clerk Pat Mau-Shimizu was sitting next to her on the House floor — C.J. Leong, House assistant clerk. Mau-Shimizu, 57, is an attorney and 23-year veteran of the Legislature. She has diabetes and had chronic kidney disease. More

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As a Child Welfare Services specialist on the Big Island, Patrice Bell has seen spending restrictions and budget cuts reduce her office size by about one-third. Many have retired, while others have resigned rather than be at an office where lack of personnel puts the welfare of children at risk, she said. More

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Ocean safety officers planned to check waters off Laniakea Beach on the North Shore this morning after large tiger sharks were spotted near the body presumed to be that of a missing surfer. More

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Circuit Judge Glenn S. Hara denied a request yesterday to shut down Private Moments, an adults-only video and lingerie store in the Keaau Plaza shopping center on the Big Island. More

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Ewa Beach resident JR Salvacion was nearly halfway through his yearlong combat tour in Afghanistan when he wrote on his Facebook page, "I really miss my family, especially my son!" More

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The federal government added 48 species found only on Kauai to the endangered species list yesterday, boosting the number of species classified as such by the Obama administration from two to 50. More

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Blustery conditions will continue throughout Maui County today, but the National Weather Service canceled the wind advisory for the rest of the state at 4 p.m. yesterday. More

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Mitsuo "Mits" Shito, a strong public housing advocate at the state Legislature, died of natural causes last month. He was 79. Shito was a member of the House of Representatives from 1974 to 1988. As chairman of the Housing Committee, he guided the development of affordable housing. More

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QUESTION: I lost my wedding ring on Feb. 21 at a TSA security checkpoint at Honolulu Airport. Is there any way that I can find out if someone turned in the ring? More

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Dispassionately, the baby-faced young man recounted his killings: two women and one man, first beaten senseless with a stick, then stabbed to death with a short knife. More

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South Africa's governing party said yesterday that its leaders would talk to Nelson's Mandela's ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, about published remarks attributed to her in which she caustically described him as a figurehead who had made a bad deal with the country's former white rulers. More

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Mayor Mufi Hannemann's likely bid to become governor picked up some early neighbor island support with yesterday's endorsement by the ILWU, but his Democratic opponent, former U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie, is urging Hannemann to stay put. More

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Mona Rodarte watched state authorities take away her third baby a few months ago, and the trauma was enough to motivate her to consider Project Prevention's offer to pay her $300 to get sterilized or start using long-term birth control. More

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The Honolulu Police Department suspended yesterday a pilot program that put the names and mug shots of drunken-driving suspects on a Web page once a week. More

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A memorial service for Cec Heftel, former Hawaii congressman and broadcast industry leader, will be held March 28 at Hawaii Theatre. The public is invited to attend. More

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The Portuguese and Puerto Ricans did backbreaking work as contract laborers on the sugar plantations in Hawaii more than a century ago, and their descendants rose as entrepreneurs and politicians and were key in the expansion of the Catholic Church in Hawaii. More