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• Waikiki block party to close Kalakaua Avenue

  23-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  Motorists are advised to use alternative routes during the Aloha Festivals Waikiki Ho‘olaule‘a, an annual block party, which will close one lane of Kalakaua Avenue starting at 1 p.m. today.
  The first makai lane will close at 1 p.m., followed by the second lane closure at 2 p.m., according to festival officials. At 4 p.m. there will be a full closure of Kalakaua Avenue from Seaside to Kealohilani avenues.
  The Waikiki Ho‘olaule‘a takes place from 7 to 10 p.m. Roads will reo
  
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• Turkish man detained during flight to Honolulu ruled competent to stand trial

  23-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  A Turkish man accused of in-flight behavior that prompted bomb-threat procedures and U.S. military fighter jets to escort the American Airlines plane to Hawaii is mentally competent to stand trial and must be detained without bail to protect the community, a federal judge in Honolulu ruled Thursday.
  Anil Uskanli’s attorney, Richard Sing, had requested the mental competency and detention hearing to be closed to the public to protect Uskanli’s private mental health information.
  U.S. Ma
  
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• Real a Gastropub heading to Kakaako

  23-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  Real a Gastropub joins Kakaako’s growing craft liquor scene, opening in the Keauhou Lane complex early next year, with an in-house brewery.
  The gastropub, long a fixture at Ward Farmers Market, closes next week as the market makes way for redevelopment. The Kakaako move gives owner Troy Terorotua a 3,000-foot space to build his own brewpub, his business partner, Lisa A. Kim, said Friday.
  Keauhou Lane, at the corner of Keawe and Pohukaina streets and a block from Salt at Kakaako, is a mixed
  
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• Puffy toylike fishes aren’t to be played with

  23-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  My 10-year-old snorkeling friend Darius shouted, “I see a pufferfish!”
  He pointed as we swam at Three Tables, part of the Pupukea Marine Life Conservation District.
  I looked at the fish.
  “That’s called a trunkfish,” I told him.
  But neither of us was entirely right, nor was either of us entirely wrong. The swimming suitcase I called a trunkfish gets the heading “Boxfishes and Cowfishes” in my fish textbook, but adds in parentheses, “Also called trun
  
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• Local Labrador gains ‘Hawaii Five-0’ spotlight

  23-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  A canine star is expected to make regular appearances on “Hawaii Five-0” in the eighth season, which premieres Friday on CBS.
  Eddie, a 2-year-old, yellow Labrador retriever, appears in the third episode as Steve McGarrett’s sidekick.
  Named after surf legend Eddie Aikau, the dog belongs to Hollywood animal trainer Sue Chipperton, owner of Check the Gate. Eddie, a North Shore resident, has also been in a Hawaiian Telcom commercial and played a small part in “Brad’s St
  
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• Kauai seabird-season deal lets some night football games return

  23-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  An agreement signedFriday cleared the way for the first nighttime football game during the fledgling seabird season on Kauaiin seven years.
  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service signed an agreement with Kauai County allowing four night games this football season — the first was held Friday night, with others scheduled for Sept. 30, Oct. 7 and Nov. 4.
  On Friday, Waimea High School held its homecoming football game at Hanapepe Stadium.
  Football games on the Garden Isle have been a daytime affai
  
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• Jury finds 2 cousins not guilty of murder

  23-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  A state jury found two cousins accused of helping one of their girlfriends kill her sugar daddy not guilty Friday of murder.
  The jury did, however, find Shaun Branco-Taguchi guilty of unlawfully possessing a firearm and arson. He faces maximum 10-year prison terms for each charge at sentencing inDecember.
  His lawyer Steven Nichols says Branco-Taguchi is pleased with the verdicts.
  “We are happy. This is a win,” Nichols said.
  After hearing the verdicts a smiling Branco-Taguchi turned t
  
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• Investigator will explore contention over Kawananakoa’s estate

  23-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  An independent special master will investigate the circumstances surrounding the disputed trust of Campbell heiress Abigail Kawananakoa and report his findings to the probate court.
  Circuit Judge R. Mark Browning last week appointed attorney James Kawachika to help determine whether the prominent philanthropist, activist and descendent of Hawaiian royalty is competent to manage her financial affairs.
  Kawachika, counsel for Honolulu law firm Deeley King Pang &Van Etten, will also be tasked wi
  
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• Hokule‘a heading for Hanalei

  23-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  The Hokule‘a, the Hawaiian voyaging canoe,​ will set sail for ​Kauai this weekend.
  The Hokule‘a is scheduled to leave Haleiwa Boat Harbor at 2:30 p.m. today for Hanalei Bay as part of its “Mahalo Hawaii Sail,” the Polynesian Voyaging Society said in a news release.
  There will be a public arrival ceremony in Hanalei Bay at 10 a.m. Sunday.
  “During the three-day Kauai trip, Hokule‘a crewmembers will participate with the community in events and activit
  
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• Harris United Methodist Church in Nuuanu becomes sanctuary site

  23-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Harris United Methodist Church is one of the first faith congregations in the state to declare itself a sanctuary to protect undocumented immigrants facing deportation.
  In April the congregation voted to take on the risks involved in violating federal law, said the Rev. Rona Mangayayam, associate pastor since 2009.
  “It is not only the right and moral thing to do, for Harris Church it is what our faith calls us to do,” she said, despite “a lot of fear,” and resistance from
  
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• Coast Guard Base Honolulu welcomes new cutter to revitalize Hawaii’s fleet

  23-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  A new era in Coast Guard ship recapitalization arrived in Honolulu on Friday morning in the form of the 154-foot, $65 million new “fast response cutter” Oliver Berry — the first in a series of new cutters anticipated in coming years to revitalize an aging fleet.
  The cutter and crew of 24 made an 8,400-mile transit from Key West, Fla., through the Panama Canal and with stops in El Salvador; Huatulco and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; and San Diego.
  “The Oliver Berry has much mor
  
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• Baby sloth born at Honolulu Zoo

  23-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  A baby sloth born Monday afternoon at Honolulu Zoo is now on public display with its mother.
  The Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth, also known as a southern two-toed sloth, was born Monday afternoon but is too young for staff to determine its sex, so it will be named later.
  This is the third baby sloth born at the zoo to mother Harriet and father Quando. The two other siblings — Opihi and Akala — are females and on display with their father. Opihi was born April 24, 2015, and Akala was
  
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• 'Little Rock Nine' members mark school's 1957 desegregation

  23-09-2017 00:16 via KHNL - National - Headline
  'Little Rock Nine' member: Images of white supremacist rally in Virginia last month echo mobs she and other black students faced 60 years ago.
  
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• Federal government notifies 21 states of election hacking

  22-09-2017 23:16 via KHNL - National - Headline
  The federal government is telling election officials in 21 states that hackers targeted their systems last year, although in most cases the systems were not breached.
  
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• Deaf man's family calls for Oklahoma City officer's arrest

  22-09-2017 22:25 via KHNL - National - Headline
  The Oklahoma Association for the Deaf says police have reached out since an officer fatally shot a deaf man in Oklahoma City, but that more needs to be done.
  
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• Can brain disease explain Aaron Hernandez's behavior?

  22-09-2017 22:15 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Aaron Hernandez brain disease diagnosis raises questions about his life troubles & suicide.
  
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• Ann Coulter says she won't attend Berkeley free speech event

  22-09-2017 21:56 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Conservative commentator Ann Coulter says she's not coming to "Free Speech Week" at the University of California, Berkeley, amid growing signs the event could fizzle.
  
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• Hurricane pushes long-suffering Puerto Rico to the edge

  22-09-2017 21:05 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Puerto Rico was already on the edge before Hurricane Maria, reeling from a decade-long, downward economic spiral that was far deeper than the Great Recession on the mainland.
  
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• Woman arrested after brandishing gun at Kardashian boutique

  22-09-2017 18:55 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Authorities say they have arrested a woman who pointed a gun at employees inside the Kardashian-owned DASH boutique in West Hollywood and later threatened reporters with a machete.
  
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• Forest Service, Idaho work to boost logging on federal land

  22-09-2017 17:56 via KHNL - National - Headline
  The U.S. Forest Service and Idaho have forged agreements for logging and restoration projects on federal land in what officials say could become a template for other Western states to create jobs and reduce the severity of wildfires.
  
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• Obama-era guidance on campus sexual assault gets scrapped

  22-09-2017 17:16 via KHNL - National - Headline
  The Trump administration is scrapping Obama-era guidance on investigating campus sexual assault, replacing it with new interim instructions for universities.
  
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• Obama campus assault guidance gets scrapped under Trump

  22-09-2017 17:16 via KHNL - National - Headline
  The Trump administration is scrapping Obama-era guidance on investigating campus sexual assault, replacing it with new interim instructions for universities.
  
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• NASA's asteroid chaser swings by Earth on way to space rock

  22-09-2017 16:45 via KHNL - National - Headline
  NASA's asteroid-chasing spacecraft, Osiris-Rex, swings by Earth on Friday on its way to a space rock.
  
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• Top students named merit semifinalists

  22-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  The list of recently announced National Merit Scholarship semifinalists includes students from across the state. The high school seniors are among approximately 16,000 semifinalists who now can compete for National Merit Scholarships to be offered in the spring:
  OAHU
  >> Hanalani: Saruwatari, Niki A.
  >> Hawaii Baptist: Chun, Lucas K.; Lee, Eugene H.
  >> Iolani: Brigoli, Daniel K.; Callahan, Sean P.; Danko, Ana F.; Huang, David H.; Hue, Nathan D.; Kawa­kami, Sabrina M.; Kawa&s
  
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• Stranger targets kids in Ewa-Kapolei region

  22-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  School officials are encouraging parents to talk to their kids about “stranger danger” after three students at separate elementary schools reported being approached by a man who offered them a ride in his truck.
  One child said he was grabbed by the man, but none of the students was injured. Honolulu police are investigating.
  The three incidents occurred while the kids were walking to or from school in the past week at elementary schools in the Campbell-Kapolei complex.
  School officia
  
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• Officials alter state plans to reflect larger nuke tested by N. Korea

  22-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  Hawaii has ratcheted up its planning for a possible — but still very unlikely — North Korean nuclear attack on the isles to 100 kiloton yield from 15 kiloton as the threat from the rogue nation seems toescalate by the week.
  The Associated Press reported Thursday that Kim Jong Un may detonate a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific, while Kim Dong-yub, a former South Korean military official, suggested the North may fire a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile out to 7,000 kilometers(4
  
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• North Shore teens helping Texas ‘one family at a time’

  22-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  You know how when a tragedy is in the news you instantly think of someone you know who might be affected? North Shore teens Hannah and Jack Button thought of their beloved childhood babysitter. Kelsey Richvalsky DeMarce, a Waialua High and UH grad, is now a teacher at Sheridan Elementary in Katy, Texas, one of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Harvey.
  The siblings reached out to DeMarce, who said her school was in good shape but many of the families were struggling.
  “Some people are fine,
  
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• Marijuana dispensary prepares to open as Oahu’s second

  22-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  Oahu’s second medical marijuana dispensary will open in early October, one block away from the island’s first cannabis retailer.
  Noa Botanicals, formerly Manoa Botanicals, is hosting an open house on Sept. 29 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at its dispensary at 1308 Young St., the former Krazy Karaoke building, to educate the public on the medicinal value of cannabis as a natural alternative to prescription drugs, said founder Brian Goldstein. The business is on the street behind Aloha Green
  
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• Landlords may charge extra deposit for tenants with pets

  22-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Question: I found an apartment I can afford (miracle!) and I want to take it. But I am a little worried about the landlord. He is trying to charge me an extra month’s rent on top of the regular security deposit because I have a small dog. I told him this before I moved in, because I wanted to make sure pets were OK. Is this legal?
  Answer: Yes.
  Hawaii’s Residential Landlord-Tenant Code was modified in 2013 to allow landlords to charge tenants with pets a deposit of up to one month&rsq
  
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• Honolulu Harbor changes make way for third mainland shipper

  22-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A company angling to compete in the industry that delivers most things consumed in Hawaii has secured crucial space at Honolulu Harbor and cleared a key hurdle that could have blocked the endeavor.
  Gov. David Ige and state Department of Transportation officials on Thursday announced the arrangement that allows TOTE Inc. to launch its planned shipping service from the mainland in 2020.
  Ige said TOTE’s move, along with making harbor facilities more efficient, will provide more shipping optio
  
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• Hawaii visit a pilgrimage for families of WWII soldiers

  22-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  Dozens of descendants of Japanese soldiers killed in World War II arrived in Hawaii Thursday to pay respects to U.S. war dead.
  Nippon Izokukai, the Bereaved Family Association of Japan, sent 36 children, grandchildren and other relatives of fallen Japanese soldiers to the U.S. to mark the 70th anniversary of the group’s founding.
  The visitors laid flowers at the USS Arizona Memorial after touring the Pacific Aviation Museum and the USS Missouri at Pearl Harbor. Today they will visit the Na
  
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• Green’s state Senate seat draws 2 Big Island contenders

  22-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  State Rep. Richard Creagan and former Hawaii County Council Chairman Dru Kanuha have both announced they will run for the seat being vacated by Hawaii Island state Sen. Josh Green next year. Both are Democrats.
  Green, who represents Kona and Kau, has announced he will leave the Senate to run for lieutenant governor in 2018.
  Creagan, 72, was appointed by former Gov. Neil Abercrombie in 2014 to represent a sprawling House district that extends from Naalehu and Ocean View to Kealakekua and Kailua-
  
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• Fiberglass igloos eyed to shelter the homeless

  22-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  HILO>> Hawaii County is considering building a fiberglass igloo village for homeless people in Kona, which would be erected across from the West Hawaii Civic Center.
  Officials said the temperature inside the 314-square-foot, four-person igloos is typically 10-15 degrees cooler than outside, West Hawaii Today reported.
  Lance Niimi, an executive assistant to the mayor charged with homeless issues, on Tuesday presented the idea to the County Council Committee, which in return asked Niimi for
  
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• Ex-death row inmate alleges race bias in Waikiki shooting case

  22-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  A former Delaware death-row inmate who brought an 18-year-old Delaware man to Hawaii to get a fresh start says the teen has been falsely accused of a deadly shooting because he’s black.
  Isaiah McCoy said Jordan Smith is not the triggerman police say fired about 10 rounds from an assault rifle at a group of people standing outside a Waikiki club on Saturday.
  “Purposely pinpointing black people, that’s what they’re doing,” McCoy told Honolulu news station Hawaii News
  
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• Ex-accountant charged with embezzling $5.7M from Hawaii nonprofit

  22-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  A former accountant for a nonprofit organization that provides services to children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities stole more than $5.7 million from the organization over 10 years and spent the money on lavish vacations, gambling, cars, home renovations and mortgages on at least four homes, Deputy Prosecutor Chris Van Marter said in state court Thursday.
  An Oahu grand jury returned an indictment charging Lola Jean Amorin, 69, with multiple counts of theft from The Ar
  
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• Construction in Hawaii has hit a plateau, economists say

  22-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  One big driver of Hawaii’s economy — construction — has been on a fairly consistent seven-year growth run. But that run is likely done this year, and some coasting near the current high level is expected for the next three years.
  That’s the assessment of the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization, which released its annual construction industry forecast today for publication.
  “After several years of rapid expansion, the pace of building has eased,&rdquo
  
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• Chinatown shooter on loose after killing man

  22-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  
  A deadly shooting in Chinatown left many in the area shaken Thursday as police searched for a male suspect in the second fatal shooting on Oahu this week.
  Police said the 34-year-old victim was shotmultiple times at about11:48 p.m. Wednesdayin front of Maunakea Liquor &Grocery store at 1161 Maunakea St.
  The victim was on foot when he was approached by a man with a handgun who fled after shooting him multiple times in the torso, Maj. Larry Lawson of the Honolulu PoliceDepartment’s Crimi
  
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• 2 women struck in Hilo crosswalk, critically injured

  22-09-2017 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Two elderly women were critically injured Thursday morning when they were hit in a marked crosswalk by a vehicle in downtown Hilo.
  Hilo police said an 86-year-old Hilo woman and an 86-year-old visitor from Oahu were crossing Kinoole Street in a marked crosswalk at Mamo Street at 10:50 a.m. when a blue 2016 Toyota Corolla driven by an 88-year-old woman hit them.
  The pedestrians were taken in critical condition to the Hilo Medical Center, and both were flown to an Oahu hospital for further treatme
  
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• Puerto Rico faces weeks without electricity after Maria

  22-09-2017 10:06 via KHNL - National - Headline
  They eye of Hurricane Maria is nearing the Turks and Caicos early Friday as Puerto Rico tries to recover from the storm's devastation.
  
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• Dam failing as scope of Puerto Rico's disaster becomes clear

  22-09-2017 10:06 via KHNL - National - Headline
  They eye of Hurricane Maria is nearing the Turks and Caicos early Friday as Puerto Rico tries to recover from the storm's devastation.
  
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• Public shaming likely but GOP wary of new laws after Equifax

  22-09-2017 09:48 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Prospects are good for a public shaming in the Equifax data breach, but it's unlikely Congress will institute sweeping new regulations after hackers accessed the personal information of an estimated 143 million Americans.
  
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• After Equifax, public shaming but GOP wary of new rules

  22-09-2017 09:48 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Prospects are good for a public shaming in the Equifax data breach, but it's unlikely Congress will institute sweeping new regulations after hackers accessed the personal information of an estimated 143 million Americans.
  
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• Off to Mexico? Prepare to wait at busiest US border crossing

  22-09-2017 09:35 via KHNL - National - Headline
  The busiest border crossing in the United States will close this weekend to the more than 40,000 cars that pass through it daily to Mexico.
  
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• Closure at busy US-Mexico border crossing promises headaches

  22-09-2017 09:35 via KHNL - National - Headline
  The busiest border crossing in the United States will close this weekend to the more than 40,000 cars that pass through it daily to Mexico.
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Kimmel's take on health care harder to refute

  22-09-2017 09:25 via KHNL - National - Headline
  AP FACT CHECK: Considering all the arguments, TV host Jimmy Kimmel's take on the Republican health care bill is harder to refute.
  
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• Kin of fallen Japan soldiers pay respects at Pearl Harbor

  22-09-2017 05:35 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Dozens of descendants of Japanese soldiers killed in World War II have arrived in Hawaii to pay respects to American war dead.
  
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• Civil rights commission: Discrimination risk in city fines

  22-09-2017 01:02 via KHNL - National - Headline
  U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says the use of court fines and fees as revenue sources by municipalities can lead to discrimination and is something the Department of Justice should continue to investigate.
  
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• Girl hit by foul ball at Yankees game gets game's attention

  22-09-2017 01:00 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Foul ball that struck girl at Yankees game gets game's attention.
  
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• Michigan official faces key hearing in Flint water case

  21-09-2017 22:35 via KHNL - National - Headline
  A former Michigan health official says he started asking questions about bacteria in Flint's water supply a year before the state publicly acknowledged an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease.
  
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• Investigators: Pilots erred in Pence plane's skid at airport

  21-09-2017 21:58 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Investigators have cited failures by the pilots of a plane that overran a LaGuardia Airport runway while carrying then-vice presidential candidate Mike Pence.
  
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