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.
Commander Scott Waddle, middle, arrives at the Pearl Habor court of inquiry with his wife, Jill, this morning. The hearing could decide his fate in the wake of the fatal collision of his submarine with a Japanese training vessel.
Richard Ambo • The Honolulu Advertiser
BREAKING NEWS Updated at 10:50 a.m., March 5, 2001 13 wounded, two dead after California school shooting A gunman opened fire on fellow students at Santana High School in Santee, Calif., today, killing two and wounding 13 other people. One witness said the youth smiled as he fired a long-barreled handgun.
Updated at 3:20 p.m., March 5, 2001 Cheney undergoes surgery Vice President Dick Cheney underwent surgery today to reopen a partially blocked artery after checking into a hospital with chest pains. It was the same artery that had been cleared last November after his fourth heart attack.
NEWS UPDATES Posted at 3:35 p.m., March 5, 2001 Lengthy lunch delayed sub maneuver A lengthy lunch for guests aboard a U.S. submarine forced a nearly 45-minute delay in the emergency surfacing maneuver that ended in a fatal collision with a Japanese fishing boat, an admiral testified today.
Updated at 12:20 p.m., March 5, 2001 Ehime Maru hearing begins with stakes high
Vice Adm. John B. Nathman this morning opened one of the Navy's rare courts of inquiry to try to determine what caused a fast-attack submarine to crash into a Japanese training vessel as it practiced a surfacing maneuver nine miles south of Diamond Head on Feb. 9.
Posted at 8:15 a.m., March 5, 2001 Woman and baby die, three injured in car accident A 31-year-old woman and a two-month-old boy were killed and three people were critically injured when their speeding car smashed into a large tree last night near Honolulu International Airport.
Posted at 9:35 a.m., March 5, 2001 Advertiser to build printing plant in Kapolei The Honolulu Advertiser this morning announced a tentative agreement to build a $70 million printing and distribution facility on 11.6 acres at Kapolei in West O'ahu.
Posted at 8:19 a.m., March 5, 2001 Water mains break in Waikiki, Mapunapuna Honolulu Board of Water Supply crews this morning were fixing three broken water mains in Waikiki and Mapunapuna that cut off water to one apartment building and three businesses.
Updated at 1:47 p.m., March 5, 2001 Baby whale stranded in Punalu'u A 20-foot-long baby humpback whale was found beached this morning on the beach near Chings’ Punalu'u store on Kamehameha Highway.
Scenic and historic, Waimea Valley is at crossroad
The city hopes to buy Waimea Valley for about $5.2 million and hire a group or groups to manage the wealth of cultural, historical and botanical resources at the park.
North Shore water work to flow faster
The Honolulu Board of Water Supply has shaved about one year off the time it plans to work on water main projects along Kamehameha Highway between Kawailoa and Waiale'e.
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Isles become imaging center
An optical system developed in Hawai'i is being used to detect nearly invisible changes in skin color that are associated with cancer cells and to pick out the source of a sewage spill in the ocean.
Savovic, Lee All-Wac
Predrag Savovic and Crystal Lee, catalysts of the University of Hawai'i men's and women's basketball teams, respectively, yesterday were named as first-team selections on the All-Western Athletic Conference basketball teams.
Waiau Elementary vice principal promotes Hawaiian language
After a dozen years teaching Waiau children entirely in Hawaiian through the state's "immersion" program, Kalani Akana on Jan. 21 donned the mantle of school vice principal.
Kahala Mandarin will build fitness center
The spa trend has hit the stately Kahala Mandarin Oriental Hawai'i Hotel, which will join other full-service resorts by building a spa and fitness center, additional suites and tennis courts.
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