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• Texas man accused of trying to kill judge found guilty

  26-04-2018 22:28 via KHNL - National - Headline
  A federal jury in Texas has found a 30-year-old man guilty of several charges relating to a 2015 assassination attempt on a judge outside her home.
  
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• 'Busy' Trump admits he didn't get wife much for her birthday

  26-04-2018 19:32 via KHNL - National - Headline
  President Donald Trump says he got his wife, Melania, a "beautiful card" and "some beautiful flowers" for her birthday.
  
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• 'Oh! Susanna' songwriter's statue removed amid criticism

  26-04-2018 18:38 via KHNL - National - Headline
  A 118-year-old statue of the "Oh! Susanna" songwriter has been removed from a Pittsburgh park after criticism that the work is demeaning because it includes a black man sitting at his feet, plucking a banjo.
  
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• Explosion rocks Wisconsin refinery, at least 5 hurt

  26-04-2018 18:38 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Several people have been injured in an explosion at a refinery in Wisconsin.
  
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• Explosion rocks Wisconsin refinery, at least 11 hurt

  26-04-2018 18:38 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Several people have been injured in an explosion at a refinery in Wisconsin.
  
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• Yawkey Way outside Fenway Park changed over racist past

  26-04-2018 17:30 via KHNL - National - Headline
  The city of Boston has approved a plan to change the name of Yawkey Way, the street near Fenway Park named in honor of former Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey, who some have said was racist.
  
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• 2 black men 'humiliated' when gym staffers called police

  26-04-2018 16:21 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Two black men who were wrongly accused of not paying to work out at a gym in New Jersey say they were humiliated when staffers there twice called police on them.
  
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• 2 black men 'humiliated' when gym staffers call police

  26-04-2018 16:21 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Two black men who were wrongly accused of not paying to work out at a gym in New Jersey say they were humiliated when staffers there twice called police on them.
  
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• The Latest: Sheriff to suspect: 'Turn yourself in'

  26-04-2018 15:38 via KHNL - National - Headline
  A Maine county sheriff is imploring a man sought in the killing of a deputy to "turn yourself in.".
  
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• Summit lava lake still overflowing into crater

  26-04-2018 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Lava overflowed from Kilauea’s summit crater lava lake Wednesday, pouring onto the floor of Halemaumau Crater days after the largest spill in 10 years on the Hawaiian volcano.
  U.S. Geological Survey scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory recorded new activity Wednesday morning after two episodes Tuesday.
  “The lava lake level is still quite high,” said Janet Babb, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologist.
  On Tuesday, the observatory issued a volcano activity notice about t
  
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• Social worker proposal moves

  26-04-2018 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  House and Senate negotiators Wednesday agreed to a bill that would authorize the hiring of four extra social workers to help address a crisis in the child-welfare system on the east side of Hawaiiisland.
  But the compromise measure removed a proposed cap on the number of abused or neglected children each social worker in the Child Welfare Services’ Hilo office could supervise.
  House Bill 2277 originally set a limit of 20 children per social worker and, to be able to meet that, would have ap
  
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• More scam attempts likely as Medicare cards are sent

  26-04-2018 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Question: I thought new Medicare cards — to help avoid fraud — were supposed to be mailed out in April. The month is almost over and I haven’t received mine. Should I be concerned?
  Answer: No, as long as your address is up to date.
  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services began mailing out new cards in April on a “flow basis,” starting nationwide with people newly eligible for the federal health insurance program, which primarily serves those 65 and older. R
  
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• Lawmakers pass ban on ‘bump stocks,’ other rapid-fire devices

  26-04-2018 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  With the Hawaii State Legislature set to adjourn in a week, lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday to several significant bills, including a measure that would make it illegal to sell or own “bump stock” devices, like the ones used last year by a gunman to spray gunfire into a Las Vegas crowd.
  The Senate voted 24-0 to approve Senate Bill 2046, which would ban the manufacture, import, sale and possession of devices that can be used to modify firearm triggers to fire almost as rapidly
  
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• Kidnapping, sex-assault suspect sought

  26-04-2018 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Police said they were searching Wednesday night for a male suspect in a white van who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a victim in Kalama Valley during the afternoon. Police sources said the victim was a teenage girl.
  The teen was reportedly abducted by a male suspect at about 2 p.m. and sexually assaulted. The girl escaped and reported the incident to police.
  Police said the suspect is unknown to the victim.
  Man is indicted for attempted murderAn Oahu grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday
  
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• Kauai pedestrian, 76, dies in chain-reaction crash

  26-04-2018 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A 76-year-old man died last weekend after he was struck by a vehicle in a chain-reaction crash on Kauai.
  Kauai police identified the man as Wilfred Ibara of Kekaha.
  Police said Ibara was walking in Kekaha in the eastbound lane of Kaumualii Highway near Manu Road when a driver heading eastbound came to a sudden stop to avoid hitting him.
  A second vehicle rear-ended the first vehicle, pushing it into Ibara.
  He sustained injuries from his head to his waist and was taken to Wilcox Memorial Hospital,
  
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• Kauai disaster was triggered by record 24-hour rainfall

  26-04-2018 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  It really was a historic rainfall on Kauai — anational record apparently.
  The National WeatherService said Wednesday that a rain gauge in remote Waipa, about a mile west of Hanalei, recorded 49.69 inches of rain during the24-hour period ending at 12:45 p.m. April 15.
  If certified, the total would obliterate the current U.S. record of 43 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period set in Alvin, Texas, in July 1979.
  Hawaii’s current record for rainfall in a 24-hour period is 38 inches recor
  
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• Feds seek to foreclose on Sandwich Isles

  26-04-2018 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  The federal government is trying to foreclose onthe assets of Sandwich Isles Communications Inc. torecover $128 million in principal and interest the company owes on delinquent U.S. Department of Agriculture loans, according to a lawsuit filed by the U.S.Department of Justice.
  The politically connected Sandwich Isles company had an exclusive license to provide telecommunications services on Hawaiian Home Lands, and borrowed more than $166.7 million from the USDA to help finance its fiber optic t
  
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• Federal judge rejects Deedy’s request to block a third trial

  26-04-2018 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  U.S. District Judge Derrick K. Watson denied a request by U.S. State Department special agent Christopher Deedy to block the state from prosecuting him for manslaughter pending a decision on whether his constitutional rights would be violated, but the judge said Wednesday that he expects to rule well before trial in October.
  Deedy claims that standing trial for manslaughter after having been acquitted of murder for fatally shooting Kollin Elderts in 2011 would violate the protection against doub
  
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• Ex-Punahou baseball player dies in California car crash

  26-04-2018 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A former baseball player at Punahou School has been identified as the victim of a single-car crash near Stockton, Calif.
  The Record of Stockton reported that Marcus Yoshii, 24, died on Interstate 5 at about 12:40 a.m. Friday after his Toyota hit a guardrail post and flipped over on an embankment.
  The former Mililani resident was a standout pitcher in youth baseball before attending Punahou, where he graduated in 2011. He was working as a physical therapy aide at St. Joseph’s Medical Center
  
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• Developer eyes eighth Kakaako tower

  26-04-2018 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  After less than four months of selling condominiums in the seventh tower permitted for Ward Village, the developer of the community in Kakaako is seeking a permit foran eighth tower.
  Texas-based Howard Hughes Corp. said ina Wednesday letter to shareholders that ithopes to bring its next Ward Village tower to market, which means selling units, in the next12 months.
  On Tuesday night, a company official told the Ala Moana-Kakaako Neighborhood Board that the eighth tower has been named Ko‘ula
  
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• Council passes ‘mandatory’ sprinkler bill that allows owners to opt out

  26-04-2018 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A bill passed by the Honolulu City Council requires about 150 older high-rise condominiums to be retrofitted with automated sprinkler systems — except it really doesn’t.
  The final version of Bill 69 (2017) allows condominium associations to opt out of installing sprinklers either in hallways or individual units so long as they meet the minimum requirements of fire safety evaluation forms that would be filled out by a licensed architect or engineer and then submitted to the Honolulu F
  
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• Council passes ban on ‘drifting’ driving technique

  26-04-2018 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A bill outlawing drifting and drift racing on city roads was approved unanimously by the Honolulu City Council Wednesday.
  Bill 7 was introduced by Councilwoman Carol Fukunaga in the wake of the serious injuries sustained by champion triathlete Lectie Altman when her bicycle was struck head-on by a driver allegedly drift racing on a narrow section of Tantalus Drive on Jan. 25. The car that struck Altman was reportedly racing with another vehicle when the collision occurred.
  The bill calls for a p
  
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• Council approves $3M settlement in suit by man struck by officer

  26-04-2018 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  The Honolulu City Council on Wednesday voted unanimously to approve a $3 million settlement to end a lawsuit brought by a man injured severely when his motorcycle was struck by an on-duty Honolulu Police Department officer’s car in 2014.
  The incident left Haibo “Bobby” Peng with multiple injuries to his spine, skull, nose, lungs and legs that have resulted in more than $50,000 in medical and rehabilitation bills, more than $31,000 in lost wages and “extreme pain, sufferin
  
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• Arguments leave Chin optimistic

  26-04-2018 12:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Lt. Gov. Doug Chin said the discussion and questions by U.S. Supreme Court justices during oral arguments Wednesday have not dampened his optimism that the country’s highest court will strike down President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban.
  It was Chin, in his previous job as Hawaii attorney general, who filed the state’s challenges to the current and previous versions of the ban.
  National media organizations are predicting that the Supreme Court will uphold the ban, based on t
  
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• MGM sets August opening date for Massachusetts casino

  26-04-2018 11:18 via KHNL - National - Headline
  MGM is planning to open its $960 million Massachusetts casino earlier than expected.
  
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• APNewsBreak: Feds' delays imperil migrant children

  26-04-2018 09:11 via KHNL - National - Headline
  A bipartisan Senate subcommittee has found that the government risks placing migrant children in the custody of human traffickers because federal agencies have delayed crucial reforms needed to keep the children safe.
  
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• Q&A: Why Colorado, Arizona teachers are walking off the job

  26-04-2018 09:08 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Tens of thousands of schoolteachers are walking off the job in Colorado and Arizona, though their demands and state laws on walkouts differ.
  
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• Accused serial rapist and killer undetected working as cop

  26-04-2018 08:39 via KHNL - National - Headline
  The suspected Golden State Killer became less prolific but deadlier after losing his job as a police officer.
  
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• Thousands of teachers in Arizona, Colorado to protest

  26-04-2018 08:38 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Tens of thousands of teachers in Arizona and Colorado will shut down schools to protest low pay and funding.
  
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• Seeing red: Teacher walkouts shut Arizona, Colorado schools

  26-04-2018 08:38 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Tens of thousands of teachers in Arizona and Colorado will shut down schools to protest low pay and funding.
  
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• Lynching memorial and museum in Alabama draw crowds, tears

  26-04-2018 07:18 via KHNL - National - Headline
  The public gets its first look at a lynching memorial and museum opening Thursday in Alabama.
  
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• Manhunt underway for suspect in killing of sheriff's deputy

  26-04-2018 06:48 via KHNL - National - Headline
  A manhunt is underway for the suspect in what is believed to be the first killing of a law enforcement officer in Maine in nearly 30 years.
  
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• Jury focuses on Cosby's star witness; his lawyers face heat

  26-04-2018 06:48 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Jurors in Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial are kicking off a second day of deliberations by revisiting the testimony of a star defense witness who cast doubt on accuser Andrea Constand's credibility.
  
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• Bill Cosby convicted of drugging and molesting a woman

  26-04-2018 06:48 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Jurors in Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial are kicking off a second day of deliberations by revisiting the testimony of a star defense witness who cast doubt on accuser Andrea Constand's credibility.
  
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• Tears flow as victims of Waffle House shooting remembered

  26-04-2018 05:19 via KHNL - National - Headline
  A Nashville community has rallied to support the victims of a weekend shooting at a Waffle House by stopping by to get a meal after the restaurant re-opened.
  
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• Suspect in serial killings lived in a tidy California suburb

  26-04-2018 04:58 via KHNL - National - Headline
  The man authorities say is among the worst serial killers and rapists in U.S. history is a 72-year-old Vietnam War veteran, former police officer and grandfather who lived quietly in a tidy suburban California home.
  
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• Patton Oswalt credits late wife in Golden State Killer case

  26-04-2018 01:58 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Comedian Patton Oswalt proudly and tenderly praises his late wife for her work on the Golden State Killer case.
  
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• Victims voice relief after arrest in serial killing case

  26-04-2018 01:38 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Victims of California serial killer and rapist voice say they are relieved police arrested a suspect.
  
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• Corrections officers charged with bribery, racketeering

  26-04-2018 00:09 via KHNL - National - Headline
  South Carolina corrections employees have been indicted on charges of bribery and bringing contraband into the state's institutions.
  
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• DeLorean widow sues for 'Back to the Future' payments

  25-04-2018 23:18 via KHNL - National - Headline
  The widow of maverick automaker John DeLorean alleges a Texas company has illegally received money owed to his estate from a deal with Universal Pictures for the "Back to the Future" movies.
  
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• Without Trump nomination, judges vote to keep US attorney

  25-04-2018 22:48 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Manhattan federal judges have taken the unusual step of deciding to keep U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman in his job in the absence of a nomination by President Donald Trump.
  
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• Ford promises more savings as 1Q earnings rise 9 percent

  25-04-2018 22:29 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Ford's net income rose slightly in the first quarter due largely to a lower income tax rate.
  
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• Lawyers say others were hurt in Copperfield illusion show

  25-04-2018 20:38 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Lawyers for a British tourist who says he was badly hurt taking part in an illusion by Las Vegas Strip headliner David Copperfield in 2013 say they've found three other people who were injured over the years.
  
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• Arizona opening day cares to get ready for teacher strike

  25-04-2018 20:18 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Communities across Arizona are gathering gift cards, prepping boxed lunches and opening church doors for day camps to get ready for a historic teacher walkout.
  
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• DNA brings arrest in sadistic crime spree from '70s and '80s

  25-04-2018 18:50 via KHNL - National - Headline
  The Sacramento County District Attorney's Office plans to make an announcement in the case of an elusive serial killer they say committed at least 12 homicides, 45 rapes and dozens of burglaries across California in the 1970s and 1980s.
  
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• Former President Bush out of intensive care, making progress

  25-04-2018 18:18 via KHNL - National - Headline
  Former President George H.W. Bush is thanking Houston for the "professionalism and obvious care" during the memorials and services for his wife, Barbara Bush.
  
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• Judge seeks update on raids of Trump's personal lawyer

  25-04-2018 16:58 via KHNL - National - Headline
  A judge wants more information from prosecutors and lawyers for President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer Michael Cohen to help speedily analyze materials seized from Cohen.
  
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• Alaska Olympic games pay homage to hunting, survival skills

  25-04-2018 16:28 via KHNL - National - Headline
  A unique high school sports competition in Alaska this week has events that pay homage to the region's subsistence hunters.
  
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• Police: Man killed deputy, stole his car and robbed store

  25-04-2018 16:08 via KHNL - National - Headline
  A county sheriff in Maine says a deputy has been shot and killed following a report of a robbery at a convenience store.
  
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• APNewsBreak: Military sex assault reports jump 10 percent

  25-04-2018 14:28 via KHNL - National - Headline
  U.S. officials say that reports of sexual assaults across the military jumped by about 10 percent in 2017, a year that saw a massive nude-photo sharing scandal rock the services.
  
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