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Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 makes emergency landing after engine rips apart

A Southwest Airlines jet returned to Denver Sunday morning after the engine cover fell off and struck the wing flap during takeoff, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Read more

JAMM AQUINO / MARCH 22
                                Hawaii outfielder Matthew Miura (37) hits an RBI single during the fifth inning of an NCAA baseball game.

Rainbows beat UC Davis on the road in 10 innings

DallasJ Duarte’s sacrifice fly brought home Kyson Donahue with the go-ahead run in the 10th inning in the Hawaii baseball team’s 4-3 road victory over UC Davis at Dobbins Stadium in Davis, Calif. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2020
                                A sign for the Food and Drug Administration is displayed outside their offices in Silver Spring, Md. According to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, most cancer drugs granted accelerated approval by the FDA, meant to give patients early access to promising drugs, do not demonstrate such benefits within five years.

Study: Many cancer drugs remain unproven 5 years after approval

In a new study, researchers found that most cancer drugs granted accelerated approval do not demonstrate such benefits within five years. Read more

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                                Gabriel Kauffman, 4, and his brother, Theodore, 6, demonstrate a total solar eclipse at a NASA booth at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland. They live in Baltimore and came to the Cleveland area to see the eclipse with relatives.

Eclipse spectators stake out spots in U.S., Mexico and Canada

North America won’t see another coast-to-coast total solar eclipse for 21 years, prompting the weekend’s worry and mad rush. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2018
                                A Filipino port worker looks as the Japanese Ship Akebono (DD-108), a Murasame-class destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, prepares to dock for a goodwill visit at Manila’s south harbor, Philippines. The United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines will hold their first joint naval exercises, including anti-submarine warfare training, in a show of force in the South China Sea where Beijing’s aggressive actions to assert its territorial claims have caused alarm.

China patrolled the South China Sea as U.S. held drills with allies

The defense chiefs of the United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines announced Saturday that they would hold joint exercises in the sea to safeguard the rule of law and uphold the right to sail through and fly over the waters. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                South Carolina guard Raven Johnson (25) blocks a shot by Iowa guard Caitlin Clark (22) during the first half of the Final Four college basketball championship game in the women’s NCAA Tournament in Cleveland.

South Carolina finishes perfect season with NCAA championship

With Staley directing a relentless attack from the sideline, the Gamecocks (38-0) became the 10th Division I team to go through a season without a loss. And they accomplished the feat after they lost all five starters from last season’s team that lost to Clark’s squad in the national semifinals. Read more

CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
                                Ka La ‘Onohi Mai O Ha‘eha‘e led by Na Kumu Hula Tracie and Keawe Lopes was named the overall winner of the 61st Annual Merrie Monarch Festival on Saturday. Pictured is the halau reacting after winning first place in wahine Hula ‘Auana, which secured the overall win for the second year in a row.

Oahu halau captures Merrie Monarch win for the 2nd year in a row; See results

Their overall score of 1,201 points gave them both the wahine overall title and the group overall win and the Lokalia Montgomery Perpetual Trophy. Read more

RUSSIAN EMERGENCY MINISTRY PRESS SERVICE VIA AP / APRIL 6
                                In this grab taken from a video released by the Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service. emergency workers evacuate a local resident after a part of a dam burst causing flooding, in Orsk, Russia. Floods hit a city in the Ural Mountains areas after a river dam burst there, prompting evacuations of hundreds of people, local authorities said. The dam breach in Orsk, a city less than 20 kilometers north of Russia’s border with Kazakhstan, occurred on Friday night, according to Orsk mayor Vasily Kozupitsa.

Thousands evacuate after floods break a Russian dam in Orsk

Floods caused by rising water levels in the Ural River broke a dam in a city near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan, forcing some 2,000 people to evacuate, local authorities said. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., talks to the media as he walks to the House chamber before President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Police in Vermont are seeking a suspect who allegedly started a fire Friday, April 5, outside the office of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. The small blaze caused minor damage but no injuries.

Man arrested for setting fire at Sen. Bernie Sanders’ office

Shant Soghomonian, 35, who was previously of Northridge, California, entered the building on Friday and went to Sanders’ third-floor office where security video showed him spraying a liquid on the door and setting it afire, officials said. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS / APRIL 5
                                A sign for the Powerball jackpot is displayed at a 7-Eleven in Portland, Ore.

Winning $1.3B Powerball ticket sold in Portland

The single ticket — revealed following a delay of more than three hours to the drawing — matched all six numbers drawn to win the jackpot worth $1.326 billion, Powerball said in a statement. Read more

WARNER BROS. PICTURES VIA AP
                                This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Godzilla, left, and Kong in a scene from “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.”

‘Godzilla x Kong’ maintains box-office dominion in 2nd weekend

After its above-expectations $80 million launch last weekend, the MonsterVerse mashup brought in $31.7 million over its second weekend, a 60% drop from its debut. The Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures release, directed by Adam Wingard, has thus far outperformed any of the studio’s recent monster films except for 2014’s “Godzilla.” Read more

CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / MARCH 30
                                Hawaii freshman Louis Sakanoko hit .375 with a match-high 16 kills and middle blocker Kurt Nusterer had seven kills to lead the fourth-ranked Rainbow Warriors to a four-set win over No. 5 UC Irvine today at Bren Events Center in Irvine, Calif. Shown here, Nusterer (8) and Sakanoko (23) celebrate a kill during the fifth set against the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos last month.

No. 4 Hawaii rallies to beat No. 5 UC Irvine in Big West volleyball

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Boy, 4, hurt in Kaneohe pedestrian crash

A 4-year-old boy was taken to the hospital in serious condition after a pedestrian crash in Kaneohe this morning. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                UConn center Donovan Clingan celebrates after their win against Alabama in a NCAA college basketball game at the Final Four, Saturday in Glendale, Ariz.

Defending champ UConn returns to NCAA title game, beating Alabama

UConn withstood an early wave of 3-pointers before holding the Crimson Tide (25-12) without a field goal during a five-minute second-half stretch. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                Rescue workers extinguish the fire at the site of a Russian drone attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, early today. At least 6 people were killed in Kharkiv in the overnight attacks on Saturday and at least 10 people were injured with blast wounds and shrapnel, said regional governor Oleh Syniehubov.

Russian missile strikes on Kharkiv kill 6, wound 11

Overall, Russia fired 32 Iranian-made Shahed drones and six missiles at Ukraine overnight, officials said. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                Purdue center Zach Edey, right, backs down NC State forward Ben Middlebrooks during the second half of the NCAA college basketball game at the Final Four, Saturday, in Glendale, Ariz. Purdue won and advances to Monday’s championship game.

 Zach Edey, Purdue power their way into NCAA championship game

Edey, the back-to-back AP Player of the Year, had his 29th double-double of the season Read more

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / MARCH 26, 2023
                                University of Hawaii pinch hitter Sean Rimmer delivered a go-ahead, run-scoring single in the 10th inning to lift the team to a 4-2 road victory over UC Davis at Dobbins Stadium in California today. Rimmer is seen in this file photo hitting a double in a 2023 game against Tulane.

Pinch-hit RBI single in 10th inning leads Hawaii over UC Davis

The Rainbow Warriors were five outs away from suffering their sixth consecutive Big West loss. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                Iowa guard Caitlin Clark reacts with head coach Lisa Bluder during the second half of a Final Four college basketball game against UConn in the women’s NCAA Tournament, Friday in Cleveland.

Iowa-UConn women’s Final Four match was ESPN’s most-watched hoops game

It was one of the most-viewed games in any sport other than college football and the NFL over the past couple years. Read more

MARCIA DUNN / ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                Kalee Hume stands alongside her handmade eclipse-themed soaps at her shop in downtown Waxahachie, Texas, today. Waxahachie will be in the path of totality for Monday’s eclipse of the sun.

Small town businesses embrace total solar eclipse crowd

As the moon covers the sun, daytime darkness will follow a narrow corridor — from Mexico’s Pacific coast to Texas and 14 other states up to Maine and the eastern fringes of Canada. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                Social media accounts who shield their real identities behind clever slogans and cartoon avatars have come to dominate right-wing political discussion online, even as they spread false information. The X logo is shown on a computer screen in 2023.

 Anonymous users spreading false election information in online forums

Social media accounts that shield the identities of the people or groups behind them have come to dominate right-wing political discussion online even as they spread false information. Read more

SANA VIA AP
                                In this photo released by the official Syrian state news agency SANA, emergency service workers clear the rubble at a destroyed building struck by Israeli jets in Damascus, Syria, Monday.

Iranian commander vows revenge for Israeli strike that killed 2 generals

The attack on an Iranian diplomatic compound in Syria was a significant escalation in a long-running shadow war between the two archenemies. Read more


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