Honolulu police shut down 3 Kalihi gamerooms, seize $24K in cash

• By Peter Boylan
• Oct. 28, 2025
• Last updated 8:14 p.m.
•  6

Kauai police seek help in identifying remains found in April

• By Star-Advertiser staff
• Oct. 28, 2025
• Last updated 3:57 p.m.
•  2

Police said a DNA profile is now available to compare with missing persons reports or family reference samples. Read more

Quiet supersonic X-59 jet soars over California desert in first test flight

• By Steve Gorman and David Swanson / Reuters
• Oct. 28, 2025
• Last updated 2:59 p.m.
•  7

The sleek aircraft, built for NASA by aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin, took off about an hour after sunrise from a runway at Plant 42 of the company’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, about 60 miles (100 km) north of Los Angeles. Read more

Scolded by Trump, Canada’s prime minister turns to Asia for trade

• By Ian Austen / New York Times
• Oct. 28, 2025
• Last updated 2:11 p.m.
•  18

Carney said he planned to meet this week in South Korea with China’s top leader, hoping to reset a caustic relationship, end a trade dispute and restore closer ties. Read more

Israel launches new Gaza strikes, says Hamas broke U.S.-brokered ceasefire

• By Maayan Lubell and Nidal al-Mughrabi / Reuters
• Oct. 28, 2025
• Last updated 12:33 p.m.
•  7

Local health authorities said the strikes killed at least 17 people, including four in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood and five in a car in Khan Younis. Read more

U.S. military kills 14 more people in Trump’s expanding drug war

• By Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt / New York Times
• Oct. 28, 2025
• Last updated 11:54 a.m.
•  88

Hegseth said that the strikes — three of them — took place on Monday in international waters and that there had been one survivor. They bring the overall death toll to 57 in the campaign, which began in September. Read more

Judge extends block on Trump’s mass layoffs during shutdown

• By Daniel Wiessner / Reuters
• Oct. 28, 2025
• Last updated 11:30 a.m.
•  22

During a hearing in San Francisco, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston barred nearly 40 federal agencies from implementing layoffs, pending the outcome of a legal challenge by unions representing federal workers. Read more

Man, 60s, critically hurt in Kapolei crash involving flatbed truck

• By Star-Advertiser staff
• Oct. 28, 2025
• Last updated 11:10 a.m.
•  6

EMS said it was the third major motor vehicle collision on the leeward side that it responded to this morning, all on Farrington Highway. Read more

Texas sues Tylenol makers, claiming they hid autism risks

• By Rebecca Robbins, Azeen Ghorayshi and J. David Goodman / New York Times
• Oct. 28, 2025
• Last updated 10:24 a.m.
•  3

The lawsuit is the latest fallout from President Donald Trump’s claim last month that the use of Tylenol during pregnancy can cause autism. That link is unproven. Read more

Hawaii joins states suing Trump administration over SNAP halt

• By Tony Romm / New York Times
• Oct. 28, 2025
• Last updated 8:02 p.m.
•  114

The states, including officials in Hawaii, California and Massachusetts, asked a federal judge to force Washington to tap emergency reserve money. Read more

Woman, 19, dies after multivehicle crash in Nanakuli

• By Star-Advertiser staff
• Oct. 28, 2025
• Last updated 10:34 a.m.
•  37

Police said at about 4:50 a.m., a 22-year-old woman traveling eastbound on Farrington Highway attempted to merge into another lane, where she collided with a 37-year-old man in another car merging into the same lane. Read more

Moped rider, 31, critically hurt in Kailua crash

• By Star-Advertiser staff
• Oct. 28, 2025
• Last updated 7:19 a.m.
•  4

Police said the man was traveling south on Keolu Drive near Akumu Street shortly after 12:30 a.m. when he lost control and struck a concrete curb. Read more

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica

• By Judson Jones, Nazaneen Ghaffar, Emiliano Rodríguez Mega and Jovan Johnson / New York Times
• Oct. 28, 2025
• Last updated 8:53 a.m.
•  6

The hurricane had wind speeds of 185 mph when it made landfall at noon local time. Read more

Dodgers beat Blue Jays in 18-inning World Series epic

• By Janina Nuno Rios / Reuters
• Oct. 28, 2025
• Last updated 6 a.m.
•  22

The 18 innings tied the mark set by the Dodgers and Boston Red Sox in 2018 and the game was the second longest in a World Series by duration, lasting almost six hours and 40 minutes. Read more

Trump’s ‘hot truck’ becomes symbol of Japan trade talks

• By Trevor Hunnicutt and David Dolan / Reuters
• Oct. 28, 2025
• Last updated 5:50 a.m.
•  36

When Trump met Japan’s new prime minister and first female premier, Sanae Takaichi, in Tokyo on Tuesday, an F-150 was parked prominently outside the Akasaka Palace venue. Read more

Infant involved in two-vehicle crash on Hawaii island dies

• By Star-Advertiser staff
• Oct. 27, 2025
• Last updated 9:41 a.m.
•  22

A passenger who was in the backseat of the Subaru, identified as 47-year-old Anina Masaichy of Kailua-Kona, was unresponsive at the scene and later pronounced dead at 7:53 p.m. Read more

2 teen fishermen who died off Kaena Point are identified

• By Peter Boylan and Victoria Budiono
• Oct. 27, 2025
•  23

There were no signs of suspicious activity or foul play at the scene, according to the Honolulu Police Department. Read more

University of Hawaii to retire Anthony Carter’s jersey

• By Stephen Tsai
• Oct. 27, 2025
•  30

The University of Hawaii basketball team is retiring former point guard Anthony Carter’s Rainbow Warrior jersey. He will be honored during a Feb. 21 game against UC Santa Barbara at Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center. Read more