Newspaper sale order A federal judge has approved the sale of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and brought an end to an anti-trust lawsuit filed by the state attorney general against Gannett Pacific Corp., which operates The Honolulu Advertiser. Click to download the order. Adobe Reader required.
After four months stuck in Honolulu Harbor, Obod sailors, from left, Mirko Kapesic, Goran Radovic and Vido Nikcevic and other crewmen are still waiting to go home. See story.
Posted at 9:20 p.m., February 26, 2001 NEWS UPDATES Japanese maritime researchers view wreckage In the same spot where victims’ families threw flowers a week ago, Japanese researchers sent to map the ocean around the sunken Ehime Maru took a look today at the wreckage.
Posted at 11:48 a.m., February 26, 2001 Two arrested in attack on driver Police arrested a man, 23, and boy, 15, in connection with an attack early this morning on a motorist near the Sears store at Pearlridge Shopping Center. The victim was in critical condition at The Queen's Medical Center.
Trustee taking over hotel workers union
The international president of Hawai'i's biggest hotel workers' union has decided to take control of the union's local chapter, suspend its executive board and remove embattled union secretary-treasurer Eric Gill.
Faculty workload at center of debate
At the heart of the debate between the University of Hawai'i faculty union and Gov. Ben Cayetano's office is this: the portrait of a professor at work. The union and governor have been at loggerheads since 1998 over faculty pay.
Military tackles home work
Although new military homes open every year, military leaders must grapple with the reality that much of the basic inventory is not aging gracefully. Many of the homes are 20 to 40 years old.
Coach Jones on mend after crash, responds to visitors
Relatives and close friends yesterday were allowed to briefly visit with UH head football coach June Jones, who remained in guarded but stable condition at The Queen's Medical Center.
Centenarian recalls a life of love for trees
For nearly all of her 100 years, Claudia Stearns has been a champion of trees, open space and good urban planning. "Some of the trees I've planted are now 85 or 100 feet high," she said.
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