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UH baseball team uses ensemble cast to down HPU

A pitching cast of nine boosted the Hawaii baseball team to Tuesday night’s 10-1 victory over Hawaii Pacific at Les Murakami Stadium. Read more

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                                A section of the Dali, a massive container ship from Singapore, is seen as the vessel still sits amid the wreckage and collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the Baltimore port.

Some vessels bypass Baltimore bridge wreckage

Work is ongoing to open a third channel that will allow larger vessels to pass through the bottleneck and restore more commercial activity, officials announced at a news conference Tuesday afternoon. Read more

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                                In this image taken from a video footage run by TVBS, a partially collapsed building is seen in Hualien, eastern Taiwan on Wednesday.

Magnitude 7.4 quake rocks Taiwan, killing 4; no tsunami threat to Hawaii

A five-story building in Hualien was heavily damaged, collapsing its first floor and leaving the rest leaning at a 45-degree angle. Read more

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                                The Queen’s Health System has purchased Wahiawa General Hospital. The emergency department is pictured.

Queen’s finalizes purchase of Wahiawa General Hospital

The acquisition occurs as Wahiawa General grapples with challenges related to its aging facility, including HVAC system problems that recently shuttered the emergency department for repairs. Read more

NIC ANTAYA/THE NEW YORK TIMES
                                Former President Donald Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee, speaks at a campaign event at a convention center in Grand Rapids, Mich., today. Trump returned to the campaign trail here, today, accusing President Joe Biden of fostering a “border blood bath.”

Trump repeats ‘blood bath’ rhetoric on migrants

Trump reiterated his baseless claim that other countries were sending “prisoners, murderers, drug dealers, mental patients and terrorists, the worst they have” to the U.S. Read more

CITY OF FONTANA POLICE DEPARTMENT VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                This undated photo shows abducted teen Savannah Graziano. Graziano who had been kidnapped by her father in 2022 was following sheriff’s deputies’ instructions during a gunbattle on a Southern California highway and appeared to be surrendering to them when they fatally shot her, newly released audio and video show. Graziano, 15, was shot and killed as she ran toward San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies amid a hail of gunfire on Sept. 27, 2022.

Video shows abducted teen killed by deputies as she surrenders

Savannah Graziano was just steps from safety when she was killed, the video shows. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2022
                                Young cannabis plants thrive under grow lights at a marijuana farm.

Hawaii bill to legalize recreational marijuana appears dead

House Finance Chair Kyle Yamashita said the priority for the current legislative session remains meeting the financial demands to help Maui recover from the deadly Aug. 8 wildfires. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                A passer-by walks through a gate to the Harvard University campus, Jan. 2, in Cambridge, Mass. As more than 2 million graduating high school students from across the United States finalize their decisions on what college to attend this fall, many are facing jaw-dropping costs — in some cases, as much as $95,000.

Sticker Shock: College bills hit $95,000

A wealthy family with three children could expect to shell out more than $1 million by the time their youngest child completes a four-year degree. Read more

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Pearl City house fire displaces 5

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                                A Honolulu Emergency Medical Services ambulance.

Teens taken to ER after truck plunges into Haleiwa Harbor

Honolulu Emergency Medical Services responded to Haleiwa Harbor at about 7 p.m. Monday, and found the three outside of the truck and onshore upon arrival. Read more

COURTESY HAWAII COUNTY PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE
                                Stanton Joaquin was indicted March 27 on charges of felony assault, abuse and terroristic threatening for hitting his son on the head with a gas canister torch.

Puna man, 41, indicted in alleged attack on his son

Stanton A. Joaquin allegedly struck his son with a gas canister torch, which fractured his skull and caused bleeding in his cranium, police reports said. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                Cases of eggs from Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., await to be handed out by the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce employees at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds in Jackson, Miss., in August 2020. The largest producer of fresh eggs in the United States said, today, that it has stopped production at a Texas plant after bird flu was found in chickens there

Bird flu prompts largest U.S. egg producer to halt production

Approximately 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, about 3.6% of its total flock, were destroyed after the infection was found at the facility. Read more

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
                                Portions of Kauai, Oahu, Maui County and Hawaii island will be under a wind advisory starting at 6 p.m. tonight until 6 p.m. Thursday.

Strong, gusty trades to build today, prompting wind advisory

These strong and gusty, easterly trades are expected to increase today and tonight, then peak from Wednesday to Thursday. Read more

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                                Skiers ride down the slopes of the Zermatt ski resort with the Mount Matterhorn in the background, in January 2012, in Zermatt in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. An American teenager and two other people were killed in avalanche near the Swiss resort of Zermatt, police said toda. One person was flown to a hospital with serious injuries.

American teen, 2 others killed in Swiss avalanche

The avalanche occurred at about 2 p.m. Monday in an off-piste area of the Riffelberg, above the resort and below the famed Matterhorn peak. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                The logo of Tesla model 3 is seen at the Auto show, in October 2018, in Paris. Tesla sales fell sharply last quarter as competition increased worldwide, electric vehicle sales growth slowed, and price cuts failed to lure more buyers.

Tesla sales tumble nearly 9%, most in 4 years

The company blamed the decline in part on phasing in an updated version of the Model 3 sedan at its Fremont, California, factory, plant shutdowns due to shipping diversions in the Red Sea, and an arson attack that knocked out power to its German factory. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                A sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building is seen, in May 2021, in Washington. The IRS says it’s making progress with initiatives to claw back money improperly distributed under the Employee Retention Credit.

IRS claws back improperly issued COVID tax credits

The ERC was designed to help businesses retain employees during pandemic-era shutdowns, but it quickly became a magnet for fraud. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                A Security member stands guard at one of the entrances of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, March 19. U.S. stocks are sinking today, as worries about interest rates staying high continue to hit Wall Street.

Wall Street sinks on rate worries

Health insurance companies led the market lower on worries about their upcoming profits. Read more

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                                LSU head coach Ed Orgeron, left, celebrates with running back Derrius Guice following a win over Mississippi in a college football game, in October 2017, in Oxford, Miss. LSU and 10 former students who sued the school over alleged mishandling of sexual assault and domestic violence complaints against football players and others at Louisiana’s flagship state university have settled the case, a judge wrote in a March 28 order. Four of the plaintiffs in the 2021 civil case accused former star running back Guice of sexual misconduct.

LSU settles case involving sexual assault, domestic violence allegations

Settlement terms have not been disclosed. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                People inspect the site where World Central Kitchen workers were killed in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, today. World Central Kitchen, an aid group, says an Israeli strike that hit its workers in Gaza killed at least seven people, including several foreigners.

Israeli strike kills 7 aid workers in Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged that the country’s forces had carried out the “unintended strike … on innocent people.” Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                A workman secures sheathing at a residential construction site in Mount Prospect, Ill., on March 18. U.S. job openings barely changed in February, staying at historically high levels in a sign that the American job market remains strong.

U.S. job openings rise modestly in February

Monthly job openings are down from a peak of 12.2 million in March 2022 but are still at a high level. Before 2021, they’d never topped 8 million. Read more

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                                Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks during the Club Golf Awards at Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Fla., on March 24.

Donald Trump posts $175 million bond to avert asset seizure

The bond Trump is posting with the court now is essentially a placeholder, meant to guarantee payment if the judgment is upheld. Read more


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