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Big Island manhunt ends; suspect dead
The manhunt for Christopher Lucrisia, a 39-year-old fugitive accused of shooting a Hawaii Police Department officer midday Friday, ended Sunday afternoon when police reported him dead after a shooting involving an officer. Read more
Catamaran removed from Honolua Bay after two-month grounding
The catamaran, owned by Kapalua Kai Sailing Inc., ran aground at the rocky shoreline of Honolua Bay following a late January storm. Read more
Hawaii pitchers combine on 4-hitter to beat No. 15 UC Santa Barbara 1-0
Cooper Walls and Isaiah Magdaleno combined on a four-hitter in Hawaii’s 1-0 baseball victory over 15th-ranked UC Santa Barbara today at Les Murakami Stadium. Read more
Hawaii draws UNLV in first round of WBIT
The game marks the fourth consecutive season Hawaii will play in a postseason game. The Rainbow Wahine made the NCAA Tournament in back-to-back years before playing in the first round of the WBIT last year. Read more
Cindy Luis, retired Star-Advertiser writer and trailblazer for women’s sports, dies at 70
Cindy Luis, a trailblazer as a woman sportswriter and editor in Hawaii, died overnight peacefully at her home in Kailua, her son, Tiff Wells, said today. Read more
In Buenos Aires, thousands of faithful pray for Pope Francis
Bearing drums, cymbals, flags and cans of holy water, Catholic believers and priests gathered at the imposing neo-Gothic Basilica of Our Lady of Lujan, Argentina’s patron saint, to pray that Latin America’s first pope recovers from pneumonia. Read more
U.S. starts to build submarine presence on strategic Australian coast
On a training exercise from its home port in Guam, USS Minnesota is a forerunner to four Virginia class submarines that will be hosted at a Western Australian naval base from 2027, under the AUKUS partnership to transfer nuclear submarine capability to Australia. Read more
Alleged Venezuelan gang members deported by U.S. arrive in El Salvador
In a proclamation published on Saturday, President Donald Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to rapidly deport alleged members of Tren de Aragua, a criminal organization that has been linked to kidnapping, extortion and contract killings. Read more
Lithuania backs plan to double E.U. military aid for Ukraine
“If we can sustain this amount … for a longer period of time, that would be the amount that would allow Ukrainians to keep their armed forces at current strength,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys told Reuters on Sunday. Read more
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U.S. vows to keep hitting Houthis until shipping attacks stop
The airstrikes, which the Houthi-run health ministry said killed at least 53 people, are the biggest U.S. military operation in the Middle East since President Donald Trump took office in January. One U.S. official told Reuters the campaign might continue for weeks. Read more
Fire at North Macedonia nightclub kills 59, injures over 150
Authorities arrested about 20 people in connection with the fire, including government officials and the manager of the “Pulse” nightclub, which did not have a legitimate licence, Interior Minister Pance Toskovski told a press conference. Read more
Pope Francis seen in hospital for 1st time in Vatican photo
Francis is pictured from behind in the image as he is seated in a chapel at the hospital. Read more
U.S. death toll from extreme weather rises to 36
The storms that hit the South and the Midwest headed east on Sunday. Almost 300,000 consumers had no power in the affected areas on Sunday mid-afternoon, according to the website PowerOutage. Read more
Motorcyclist, 24, injured in collision with parked car
The motorcyclist was traveling southbound on Punahou Street at a high rate of speed when he crashed into a parked vehicle. Read more
Arrests made in robbery and assault of teen at Pearlridge Center
On March 8, HPD said the victim was robbed by a group of males at the mall after refusing demands from the group. Read more
Visitor, 43, dies while snorkeling on Kauai’s north shore
The person was identified as a 43-year-old man from California who had been snorkeling. His name was not immediately released. Read more
Trump invokes wartime powers to target Venezuelan gang members
The Alien Enemies Act is best known for its use to justify internment camps for people of Japanese, German and Italian descent during World War II. Read more
Measles cases in Texas, New Mexico surpass 2024’s nationwide case count
Measles cases in Texas and New Mexico rose to 294 on Friday, surpassing all U.S. cases recorded in 2024, as an outbreak that began in late January in West Texas spreads. Read more
Fierce storms kill at Least 21 as tornadoes batter the South and Midwest
The storms that killed at least 21 people across Arkansas, Mississippi and Missouri on Friday and Saturday continued to pummel a vast section of the South, leveling homes, taking down power lines and turning communities into debris fields. Read more
Trump administration launches strikes against Yemen’s Houthis
The president also warned Iran, the Houthis’ main backer, that it needed to immediately halt support to the group. Read more
Tough G7 statement drops ‘one China’ reference from Taiwan language
G7 foreign ministers took a tough stance on China on Friday, stepping up language on Taiwan and omitting some conciliatory references from past statements, including to “one China” policies. Read more
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