A&B's board approves spinoff of Matson
Alexander & Baldwin Holdings, Inc. said today its board of directors unanimously approved the separation of the company's Matson shipping operations and land businesses into two publicly traded...
View ArticleI'll Have Another, ailing, retires and ends Triple Crown quest
NEW YORK >> The Triple Crown curse lives. This time the horse didn’t even make it to the starting gate.
View ArticlePentagon crackdown on free guns riles some police
The Defense Department recently fired off a round of letters warning state law enforcement officials to track down every gun, helicopter and Humvee that the military had given them under a $2.6 billion...
View ArticleMiss Universe pageant fights back on rigging claim
PHILADELPHIA >> Lawyers for the Miss Universe Organization have filed an arbitration action that seeks monetary damages from a former contestant who claims this year’s Miss USA pageant was a...
View ArticleU.S. wants 9/11 health program to include 50 cancers
NEW YORK >> People who were stricken with cancer after being exposed to the toxic ash that exploded over Manhattan when the World Trade Center collapsed would qualify for free treatment of the...
View ArticleUN team sees massacre site in Syrian village
BEIRUT >> U.N. observers on Friday could still smell the stench of burned corpses and saw body parts scattered around a Syrian farming hamlet where nearly 80 men, women and children were reported...
View ArticleGuantanamo defense lawyers seek broadcast of USS Cole trial
MIAMI >> In a war court first, defense lawyers for the accused architect of al-Qaida’s USS Cole bombing are asking the military judge to broadcast the Guantanamo death-penalty trial to the world...
View ArticleGovernor names new coordinator for state's homeless efforts
Colin Kippen, a Native Hawaiian educator, will be the state's new homeless coordinator, Gov. Neil Abercrombie announced today.
View ArticleMob attacks women at Egypt anti-sex assault rally
CAIRO >> A mob of hundreds of men assaulted women holding a march demanding an end to sexual harassment Friday, with the attackers overwhelming the male guardians and groping and molesting...
View ArticleSerb minister elected next General Assembly head
UNITED NATIONS >> Serbia’s foreign minister was elected president of the U.N. General Assembly’s next session Friday, a sign of his country’s rehabilitation on the world stage after the Balkan...
View ArticleNo human flesh found in stomach of homeless man’s attacker, autopsy finds
MIAMI >> The world is calling Rudy Eugene, who chewed off a homeless man’s face, a cannibal - but an autopsy shows there was no human flesh in his stomach.
View ArticleUBS may have $350M in Facebook trade losses, report says
NEW YORK >> Swiss bank UBS AG may have lost as much as $350 million due to technical glitches on the Nasdaq stock exchange the day Facebook went public, according to reports published Friday.
View ArticleSurviving Bee Gee mourns Robin Gibb’s loss
THAME, England >> Surviving Bee Gee Barry Gibb lamented the loss of his brother, telling mourners on Friday that he would miss Robin Gibb’s “magnificent mind and his beautiful heart.”
View ArticleWoman in Associated Press “napalm photo” to honor her saviors
TORONTO >> It was a chilling photograph that came to symbolize the horrors of the Vietnam War and, ultimately, helped end it.
View ArticleNavy identifies sailor who died in man-overboard incident off Oahu
The Navy today identified the sailor who died after going overboard from a Pearl Harbor-based destroyer as Troy Hunter, 32, of Pembroke Pines, Fla.
View ArticleMen ordered to trial in S.F. Giants fan attack in L.A.
LOS ANGELES >> The words that two men spoke in a jail lockup nine months ago, unaware they were being recorded, came back to haunt them Friday as they were ordered to stand trial in a devastating...
View ArticleFear lingers in blind Chinese activist’s hometown
DONGSHIGU VILLAGE, China >> The fear is palpable and most people only dare whisper Chen Guangcheng’s name in this village amid wheat fields where the blind activist was held under brutal house...
View ArticleMen accused in hit-run death allegedly threatened witness
A witness to a fatal hit-and-run accident in Kaneohe last weekend said today she was repeatedly threatened by two men who were in the pickup truck that killed Matthew Fragas.
View ArticleVideo mashup honors Mister Rogers, imagination
LOS ANGELES >> Mister Rogers is making it a beautiful day in the neighborhood again.
View ArticleChow suspends backup QB Shutter four games for DUI
University of Hawaii quarterback Cayman Shutter will sit out the Warriors' first four games of the season under suspension, the school announced today.
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