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Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr with family reunions, treats and prayers

The Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan was celebrated by Muslims on Wednesday with family reunions, new clothes and sweet treats. Read more

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                                University of Kentucky head coach John Calipari meets with reporters on March 20.

John Calipari departs Kentucky after 15 years

There were too many people for John Calipari to thank by name, and too many moments to single out from one of the most fulfilling chapters of his career. Read more

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                                UConn head coach Dan Hurley, center, and his players celebrate on Monday.

Fans welcome UConn’s repeat champs back to campus

UConn’s men’s basketball team returned tonight to the campus the school has branded the “Basketball Capital of the World.” Read more

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                                Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer, standing middle right, reacts after guard Talana Lepolo made a 3-point basket on March 24.

VanDerveer retires as Stanford women’s hoops coach after setting NCAA wins record

Tara VanDerveer lent her time and energy to a young Dawn Staley behind the scenes years before the South Carolina coach started winning championships or delivering an improbable undefeated season. Read more

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                                South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley celebrates after the Final Four on Sunday in Cleveland. South Carolina won 87-75.

Women’s NCAA title game outdraws men’s championship with 18.9M viewers

The women’s NCAA championship game drew a bigger television audience than the men’s title game for the first time, with an average of 18.9 million viewers watching undefeated South Carolina beat Iowa and superstar Caitlin Clark, according to ratings released today. Read more

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                                Iowa guard Caitlin Clark drives around South Carolina guard Raven Johnson on Sunday.

Caitlin Clark wins women’s Wooden Award as nation’s best college player

Iowa’s Caitlin Clark won the John R. Wooden Award for the second straight year as the nation’s top women’s college basketball player today. Read more

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                                Jeremyal Leedy

Man, 40, indicted in Moiliili shooting

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                                UH’s Jordan Donahue throws out a runner on March 24.

Donahues help Rainbows trounce Santa Clara

Jordan Donahue drove in three runs and Jake Tsukada and Kyson Donahue each had three hits as the Hawaii baseball team trounced Santa Clara 9-3 today at Schott Stadium on the SCU campus. Read more

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                                Hawaiian monk seal RS10 was seen resting on a beach with a fishing line extending from his mouth.

Rescued Hawaiian monk seal pup returns to ocean, hook-free

Kauai volunteers on March 16 spotted the 8-month-old seal with about 30 feet of fishing line trailing from his mouth. Read more

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Illegal fishing net probe finds stolen gun

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                                The Pentagon in Washington. The Air Force is betting a large part of its future air warfare on a fleet of more than 1,000 autonomously operated combat aircraft, and later this spring its top civilian leader is planning to climb into one of those AI-operated warplanes and let it take him airborne. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told senators Tuesday at a hearing on the service’s 2025 budget that he is planning on climbing into the cockpit of one of the F-16s that the service has converted for drone flight to see for himself how it performs in the air.

Air Force secretary will test flight AI-operated fighter jet

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told senators on Tuesday at a hearing on the service’s 2025 budget that he will enter the cockpit of one of the F-16s that the service has converted for drone flight to see for himself how the AI-controlled plane performs in the air. Read more

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                                A general view shows the aftermath of a devastating wildfire in Lahaina, on Aug. 22, 2023. The Small Business Administration has approved over $300 million in federal disaster assistance loans for Hawaii businesses and residents affected by the August wildfires on Maui, the organization announced today.

SBA approves $300M for Maui wildfire relief

The SBA will continue accepting applications for its federal disaster loan for economic injury until May 10. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2021
                                Cirque du Soleil performers from “The Beatles LOVE” show perform in the casino at the The Mirage hotel-casino before the reopening of the show in Las Vegas. It was announced that the final curtain will come down July 7 on Cirque du Soleil’s long-running show “The Beatles Love,” a cultural icon on the Las Vegas Strip that brought band members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr back together for public appearances throughout its 18-year run.

Cirque du Soleil’s Beatles-themed Las Vegas show is set to end

The entertainment company on Tuesday announced that the show housed at the Mirage will end on July 7, as part of the iconic hotel-casino’s major renovation plan to rebrand itself into the Hard Rock Las Vegas. Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2o23
                                Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Julio Urias pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox in Boston. The former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Urías has been charged with five misdemeanors stemming from his arrest last September on suspicion of domestic violence, authorities said.

Former Dodgers pitcher faces misdemeanor charges after arrest

Urias, 27, faces charges including one count of spousal battery, two counts of domestic battery involving a dating relationship, one count of false imprisonment and one count of assault, according to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office. Arraignment is scheduled for May 2. Read more

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                                Aimee Harris, right, walks out of Manhattan federal court, today, in New York. The Florida mother has been sentenced to a month in prison and three months of home confinement for stealing and selling President Joe Biden’s daughter’s diary four years ago.

Woman sentenced to month in jail for theft of Ashley Biden’s diary

Aimee Harris was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who called the Palm Beach, Florida, woman’s actions “despicable.” Read more

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                                Signs stand outside Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va. A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school has been indicted on eight felony counts of child neglect in the case of a 6-year-old boy who shot and wounded his first-grade teacher in Newport News, Virginia, last year, according to indictments unsealed Tuesday in Newport News Circuit Court.

Ex-assistant principal of Virginia school charged with child neglect

A special grand jury in Newport News found that Ebony Parker showed a reckless disregard for the lives of Richneck Elementary School students on Jan. 6, 2023, according to indictments unsealed Tuesday. Read more

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                                Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Speaker Mike Johnson will delay sending the House’s articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate this week as planned. Republican senators requested more time Tuesday to build a case for a full trial.

House to delay sending Mayorkas impeachment articles to Senate

The sudden change of plans cast fresh doubts on the proceedings, the historic first impeachment of a Cabinet secretary in roughly 150 years. Read more

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                                A Boeing 737 MAX 8 operated by Air Canada comes in for a landing, in March 2019, at Boeing Field in Seattle. An Air Canada Boeing 737 Max 8 landed safely in Idaho after experiencing an in-flight emergency today when pilots received a warning light in the flight deck, airline and airport officials said.

Warning light prompts Boeing 737 to make emergency landing in Idaho

The aircraft landed normally at 10:59 a.m. and was met by first responders, airline officials said. Read more

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State confirms 2 cases of whooping cough on Hawaii island

The cases are among two separate households with travel-related exposures on Hawaii island. Read more

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                                This 2019 photo provided by Porscha Banks, shows Dexter Reed, center, along with his mother Nicole Banks and sister Porscha Banks. Reed died, March 21, after Chicago Police officers shot him during a traffic stop.

Police fire 96 rounds in 41 seconds in fatal Chicago traffic stop

Five officers from a tactical unit who were in an unmarked police vehicle surrounded an SUV last month driven by Dexter Reed, allegedly for failing to wear a seatbelt. Read more

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                                The Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole. Starting June 1, monthly parking passes at Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport in Keahole will no longer be available to the public, state officials said.

Kona airport to end public monthly parking passes in June

With this latest discontinuation, there will no longer be any monthly parking passes available to the public at any of the state’s five major airports. Read more


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