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• UH business team takes second in international competition

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A University of Hawaii Shidler College of Business team of four undergraduate students took second place in the ninth annual CUIBE (Consortium for Undergraduate International Business Education) International Business Case Competition held recently at Northeastern University in Boston. The Shidler team placed second in a field of 16 teams from leading undergraduate international business programs from across the nation.
  
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• Tour driver arrested after pedestrian is fatally struck

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Police arrested a trolley driver on suspicion of negligent homicide Thursday following a fatal collision with a 76-year-old pedestrian in Kakaako.
  
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• State auditor finds licensing of care homes problematic

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  An inordinate number of Hawaii’s nearly 500 adult residential care homes were operating in 2017 either with no license or with “hastily issued” permits — and sometimes without even being inspected, according to a scathing audit of the agency charged with ensuring health and safety standards.
  
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• Security to curtail homeless in 9 parks

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Pairs of unarmed, private security guards Thursday began rotating among nine city parks around the clock to clamp down on illegal homeless activity.
  
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• Rearview Mirror: St. Louis Alumni Association clubhouse featured Mariota’s ‘NFL Draft Party’

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Classmates at Saint Louis School remain close all their lives after graduating. One reason for that might be that they have their own clubhouse in Moiliili.
  
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• Lee Cataluna: Musician plans big for no-rest holiday

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A year ago college student Chris Yick had a big idea. The ‘Iolani class of 2016 alumnus wanted to set up a nonprofit organization to bring chamber music experiences and education to Hawaii. He drew up plans to bring world-class musicians to Honolulu to give free workshops to students and to perform for the community in small, up-close settings. The plan was pretty audacious. Yick wasn’t going to wait until he graduated from Mercer University in Macon, Ga., to do it. He was going to d
  
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• Kokua Line: Energetic Bruno Mars fans not seen as threat to stadium

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Readers had questions after Bruno Mars wrapped up his “24K Magic” tour with three concerts at Aloha Stadium. Ryan Andrews, the stadium’s deputy manager, answers the first three:
  
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• Kokua Line: Energetic Bruno Mars fans not seen as threat to Aloha Stadium

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Readers had questions after Bruno Mars wrapped up his “24K Magic” tour with three concerts at Aloha Stadium. Ryan Andrews, the stadium’s deputy manager, answers the first three:
  
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• Isle jobless rate edges up to 2.3%

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Hawaii’s unemployment rate rose in October for the second straight month to a 16-month high of 2.3 percent as the labor force slightly contracted.
  
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• Honolulu City Lights tree kicks off the holiday season

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  The Norfolk pine — the centerpiece of the annualHonolulu City Lights celebration — is now up in front of City Hall.
  
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• Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation to pay $13M for construction claims

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  In what is being praised as a significant milestone for the troubled Honolulu rail project, the rail authority has reached an agreement that will finally allow it to close out major contracts with the company that built the first half of the elevated rail guideway.
  
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• HMSA earnings soar; Kaiser net slips

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Hawaii Medical Service Association members used fewer medical services in the third quarter, resulting in higher earnings for the state’s largest health insurer.
  
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• HART to pay $13 million for rail claims

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  In what is being praised as a significant milestone for the troubled Honolulu rail project, the rail authority has reached an agreement that will finally allow it to close out major contracts with the company that built the first half of the elevated rail guideway.
  
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• Former death row inmate who beat trafficking case arrested at Honolulu airport

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A day after Isaiah McCoy, a former death row inmate from Delaware, walked out of a U.S. courthouse in Hawaii a free man when prosecutors dropped sex trafficking charges against him, he found himself again in handcuffs.
  
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• Ex-dentist says she tried everything to save patient, 3

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Former Kailua dentist Lilly Geyer told a state jury Thursday that she did everything she could to save 3-year-old Finley Boyle.
  
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• Ex-dentist says she tried everything to save 3-year-old patient

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Former Kailua dentist Lilly Geyer told a state jury Thursday that she did everything she could to save 3-year-old Finley Boyle.
  
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• DUI repeat offenders might have to wear alcohol monitors

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Courts statewide might soon require repeat drunken drivers to wear alcohol monitoring ankle bracelets aimed at reducing the dangers of drunken driving on Hawaii’s roadways.
  
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• Column: Often misunderstood, zero remains a puzzle

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Zero, nothing, zilch, nada? The number zero is a misunderstood enigma. Its place in our number system is relatively recent, appearing much later than the Arabic numerals we use to display number digits.
  
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• City puts up its holiday tree

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  The Norfolk pine — the centerpiece of the annualHonolulu City Lights celebration — is now up in front of City Hall.
  
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• City hires 24/7 security guards to curtail homeless in 9 Oahu parks

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Pairs of unarmed, private security guards Thursday began rotating among nine city parks around the clock to clamp down on illegal homeless activity.
  
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• City hires 24/7 security guards to curtail homeless in 9 Honolulu parks

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Pairs of unarmed, private security guards Thursday began rotating among nine city parks around the clock to clamp down on illegal homeless activity.
  
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• Big Isle pot startup’s CEO is resigning

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Marijuana patients on Hawaii island still don’t have a legal way to buy their medication, and that might take a little longer now.
  
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• American Savings raises starting pay again

  16-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  American Savings Bank has increased its starting wage for the second time this year.
  
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• Humane Society investigating cat shot with arrow in Wahiawa

  16-11-2018 01:45 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  The Hawaiian Humane Society is investigating a report of a cat that was shot in the head with an arrow Tuesday night in Wahiawa.
  
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• Invasive little fire ants discovered at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park

  15-11-2018 20:19 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Federal officials have found unwanted visitors — invasive little fire ants — on Kilauea at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park.
  
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• Hawaii island nonprofit returns to Honolulu to rescue downed seabirds

  15-11-2018 19:36 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  As seabird fallout season gets underway, the Hawaii Wildlife Center and volunteers stand ready to assist.
  
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• Honolulu police arrest suspect in connection with fatal shooting in Hauula

  15-11-2018 18:33 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Honolulu police arrested a 54-year-old man in connection with a deadly shooting of another man in Hauula Wednesday night.
  
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• Utility companies warn Hawaii residents about ‘increasingly aggressive’ scams

  15-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Hawaii residents and businesses reported $2.7 million in theft last year due to scams.
  
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• Utility companies advise consumers about scams

  15-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Hawaii residents and businesses reported $2.7 million in theft last year due to scams.
  
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• Twin tower Sky Ala Moana gets OK from City Council

  15-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  The twin-tower Sky Ala Moana, a condo-hotel project on Kapiolani Boulevard, won approval from theHonolulu City Council Wednesday.
  
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• Trial set for man in killing uncle in his Pearl City home

  15-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A trial date has been set for a man accused of killing his 53-year-old uncle inPearl City.
  
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• Restaurants cancel Thanksgiving meals

  15-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Restaurants at four Marriott-managed Waikiki hotels have canceled their Thanksgiving meals due to limited staffing resulting from the Unite Here Local 5 hotel workers strike.
  
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• REITs chip in to help Hawaii affordable housing

  15-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Some of Hawaii’s biggest commercial real estate owners have established a new charitable campaign to bolster affordable housing in the state.
  
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• Portlock Road beach access resolution passes

  15-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  It’s been a 21-year-long fight for Ann Marie Kirk and many other community members and beachgoers to secure public access toa small, sandy beach at the end of a lane off Portlock Road and a surf break known as “Seconds.”
  
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• Money is the sticking point for striking workers at Marriott-managed hotels

  15-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Striking Unite Here Local 5 hotel workers head back to the bargaining table today with added momentum from taking their picket to Marriott’s Hawaii headquarters.
  
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• Money is the sticking point for striking hotel workers

  15-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Striking Unite Here Local 5 hotel workers head back to the bargaining table today with added momentum from taking their picket to Marriott’s Hawaii headquarters.
  
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• Kokua Line: Old food truck marring Maunalua Bay lingers despite complaints

  15-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Question: Auwe! What is going on with that big white truck in the Maunalua Bay parking lot? It’s been there for weeks if not months. It’s full of junk and now its windows are broken and it is covered with graffiti too. I know plenty of people have complained “to the authorities” and yet there it sits 24/7, at the start of the Ka Iwi Coast scenic route no less!
  
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• Kokua Line: Old food truck marring bay lingers despite complaints

  15-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Question: Auwe! What is going on with that big white truck in the Maunalua Bay parking lot? It’s been there for weeks if not months. It’s full of junk and now its windows are broken and it is covered with graffiti too. I know plenty of people have complained “to the authorities” and yet there it sits 24/7, at the start of the Ka Iwi Coast scenic route no less!
  
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• Honolulu City Council OKs expedited building permit approval process

  15-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A plan to speed up the processing of building permits for one- and two-family houses won final approval from theHonolulu City Council Wednesday despite continuing objections from the head of the agency tasked with reviewing the applications.
  
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• Hawaii’s budget surplus shrinks to $750M

  15-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  The state general treasury ended the last fiscal year with a $750 million surplus, meaning the state government has a respectable budget cushion but not as large as it was in the previous three years.
  
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• Council OKs expedited building permit approval process

  15-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A plan to speed up the processing of building permits for one- and two-family houses won final approval from theHonolulu City Council Wednesday despite continuing objections from the head of the agency tasked with reviewing the applications.
  
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• Police arrest suspect in fatal shooting in Hauula

  15-11-2018 08:00 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  One man is dead and another in police custody following a shooting Wednesday night in Hauula.
  
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• Willows, Karai Crab closing Jan. 1 for renovation

  15-11-2018 07:15 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  The Willows restaurant in Moiliili will be closing for renovations in 2019.
  
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• Film production closes Lanai Lookout parking lot, H-3 lanes next week

  15-11-2018 03:00 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  State transportation officials said the parking lot at the Lanai Lookout along Kalanianaole Highway is closed for filming until Wednesday.
  
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• Passenger took controls of copter after pilot passed out, says NTSB report on Kaneohe crash

  15-11-2018 01:22 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A 57-year-old tour helicopter pilot lost consciousness during a scenic tour of Oahu, prompting one of the passengers to grab the aircraft’s controls to slow the descent before it crashed at the Kaneohe Bay sandbar last month, according to a preliminary report.
  
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• Pet Food Bank shelves nearly empty in Honolulu as Thanksgiving approaches

  15-11-2018 01:10 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  The Hawaiian Humane Society is seeking donations to restock its Pet Food Bank as its supplies of cat and dog food run low the week before Thanksgiving.
  
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• Man gets 41 months for assaulting wife at Haleakala campgrounds

  14-11-2018 21:45 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  A man convicted of assaulting his wife while camping at Haleakala National Park last year has been sentenced to nearly three and a half years in prison.
  
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• 80-foot Norfolk pine to be installed at Honolulu Hale for holidays

  14-11-2018 21:25 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  City crews will install a locally harvested, 80-foot Norfolk pine tree on the front lawn of Honolulu Hale on South King Street this morning.
  
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• While helping drivers, Freeway Service Patrol faces traffic dangers

  14-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Barbara Farr had seen the state Department of Transportation’s Freeway Serv­ice Patrol trucks plenty of times from her 2010 Volvo V50 wagon, but never needed their services until her tire blew out on the westbound H-1 freeway Tuesday morning.
  “I hit something and it went immediately flat,” forcing her to block traffic and turn on her blinkers, Farr, 52, told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. FSP operator David-Ray Ramos pulled up behind to block oncoming traffic, took out a jac
  
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• Union action in Waikiki precedes hotel bargaining

  14-11-2018 11:05 via Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  Unite Here Local 5 and major community organizers are slated to gather in Waikiki this morning, which marks day 38 of the hotel workers strike, to demonstrate “resolve and solidarity” prior to resuming bargaining later this week.
  The action, which is set for 10 a.m. at the intersection between the Princess Kaiulani Hotel and the Westin Moana Surfrider Hotel, comes as the union prepares to bargain Thursday and Friday.
  The strike began Oct. 8 when negotiations between Local 5 and Kyo-y
  
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