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U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz was endorsed Friday by the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers as he courts labor in his Demo­cratic primary next year against U.S. Rep. Colleen Hana­busa.

Farrington won the GSA of the Year award, which honors a student club that has demonstrated extraordinary leadership to ensure all students in their school community feel safe and treated with respect regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity/expression, GLSEN said in a news release.

Convicted killer receives lighter sentence • Hearing set on plan to save Molokai dunes

Target of Manoa manhunt is still at large • 18-year-old man charged in stabbing • Officer lauded for drug arrests

A department store, cinema, hotel and 50 more retailers and restaurants have been added to plans for a first phase of the long-delayed Ka Makana Ali'i regional mall in East Kapolei.

State lawmakers on the closing day of the 2013 legislative session revived two bills requiring greater disclosure from super PACs, although both appeared dead earlier in the week as a result of what legislators described as poor communication.

The daughter of a Hale­iwa woman charged with killing the family's pet dog over the weekend has contradicted what her mother told police, city Deputy Prosecutor Chastity Ima­mura said.

NUEVA GERMANIA, Paraguay » The year was 1887 when two of the best-known German anti-Semites of the time put down stakes here in Paraguay's remote jungle with 14 German families screened for their racial purity.

Christopher Jay Aamodt • Jim Zentaro Arakawa • Ronald Jose Cabulong Bumanglag; and more

PHILADELPHIA » A Victorian-era dye factory is taking on a new role to help this city's troubled public school system attract and retain teachers.

SEOUL » When the order came last weekend to evacuate an industrial park in North Korea, Kwak Kyung-dock, a South Korean factory manager, said he was forced to flee with the suit on his back — and his car filled with so many boxes of the plastic machinery parts made at his factory that he had to tie several on the roof.

Rudolph James Brilhante • Lily Keala Calpito • Lily Kahele Mathias Aiwohi Chai; and more

The city Medical Examiner's Office is seeking the public's help to identify a man whose body was found on the reef off Sand Island by a kayaker Thursday morning.

Honolulu police explosives specialists responded to two more suspicious objects on different sides of the island Thursday, including what was determined to be "an incendiary device" near the Kahuku school complex.

U.S. Rep. Colleen Hana­busa will emphasize leadership experience, and not the dying wish of the late U.S. Sen. Daniel Ino­uye, in her Demo­cratic primary challenge next year against U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz.

Honolulu rail officials reported a third-quarter turnaround Thursday on how much cash the massive project is collecting. They also offered a rosier forecast for how much its yearlong construction delay will cost.

Although the Legislature failed to pass bills this session to fund the state's watershed protection initiatives by collecting a fee imposed on nonrecyclable bags or increasing taxes on expensive real estate transactions, the Department of Land and Natural Resources said it is satisfied with the level of funding lawmakers did choose to provide.

An Iraq War veteran suffering the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury will have to spend three months in jail followed by three months of electronically monitored home confinement for using the identities of fellow Army veterans to claim their GI Bill benefits.

Touch screens are everywhere: smartphones, laptop screens, supermarket checkouts, restaurant tills, ATMs, airport check-in kiosks, museum information-booths and GPS devices, to name a few.

UH given $160,000 for language project • Donations aid outreach to abuse victims • HCC classes on agriculture start May 30