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Honolulu peace activist Ann Wright is heading back to Honolulu after being released from Israeli custody following a deadly confrontation over a flotilla of ships carrying aid to Gaza, a colleague said.

HELENA, Mont. » As Bob Marley music wailed in the next room, the makeshift clinic hummed along like an assembly line: Patients went in to see a doctor, paid $150 and walked out with a recommendation that they be allowed to buy and smoke medical marijuana.

QUESTION: At about 7:20 p.m. May 27, my service dog was killed by a woman driving a red truck on Smith Street, between Nimitz Highway and King Street. The truck was traveling mauka, and I was walking on the Koko Head side of the street.

People can see in three dimensions because of parallax. Our two eyes give the brain two slightly different viewing angles that it combines to produce depth.

As a young law clerk working for Justice Thurgood Marshall at the Supreme Court in September 1987, Elena Kagan wrote an angry memorandum urging her boss to try to overturn a conservative appeals court ruling that had questioned the constitutionality of a rent-control ordinance.

As China held its collective breath, the nation's first astronaut, Yang Liwei, floated back to the motherland, having orbited Earth 14 times in the Shenzhou 5, or Divine Capsule.

Dozens of community members filled the tiny cafeteria of Kaaawa Elementary School yesterday to show overwhelming opposition to a state proposal to close the 106-year-old school.

Kaneohe Marine Pfc. Jake William Suter was in Afghanistan for only five days when he was killed Saturday -- a year after graduating from a Southern California high school.

WASHINGTON » U.S. Park Police have identified a woman arrested for tying herself to a White House fence as actress Q'orianka Kilcher who stars in the lead role of the film "Princess Kaiulani."

Popular surf areas along Waikiki and Sunset Beach have been designated surfing reserves under an executive order that Gov. Linda Lingle said highlights "the importance of protecting, nourishing and developing Hawaii's world famous surf sites."

Placing time limits on public housing and revisiting the idea of buying one-way plane tickets to send homeless people back to the mainland are among the ideas lawmakers might consider next year as they search for cost-effective ways to manage the state's growing homeless problem.

Wesley G. "Buck" Walker, who served 22 years in federal prison for a murder on Palmyra Atoll that led to a best-selling novel and television miniseries, has died in California at age 72.

Officer Charles Rezentes received the Honolulu Police Department's third-highest honor for talking an armed, suicidal man into peacefully surrendering in Ewa Beach in December.

Cindy Kauanui says something good has come out of Monday's memorial for her son Emery, who died after an assault by five men in San Diego in 2007.

Four of the six suspects in last month's early-morning home invasion robbery in Palolo carried shotguns during the robbery, according to a state grand jury indictment returned yesterday.

A state court jury deliberated less than a day before finding a teenager not guilty of sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl during a YMCA summer program in 2007.

Nalani Grace, 2010 graduate of the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, is the first recipient of the Laura Weldon Hoque Award, established this year in memory of the nationally recognized surgeon.

The guided-missile frigate USS Reuben James returned home Tuesday after a four-month deployment that included the rescue of two Filipino fisherman near Mindanao in February.