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Toby Stangel, accused of a 2011 freeway shooting spree, is guilty of reckless endangering, not murder and attempted murder, defense lawyer John Schum told the jurors in Stangel's state court trial Tuesday.

Hanalei resident Pam Wilcox Dohrman, who spent two nights alone in Kokee Valley after she got lost while hiking on a popular trail, described how happy she was to hear the voices of three young men who spotted and rescued her Monday.

City officials formally launched a search Tuesday for artists to create original, Hawaiian-themed works for display along Hono­lulu's future rail transit line.

There was good news and bad news in the Pentagon's announcement Tuesday that it will furlough up to 680,000 civilian defense workers for 11 days this summer.

City Council members want the Hono­lulu Police Department to look at the idea of allowing gun owners to obtain firearm registrations and permits at the Kapo­lei and Kaneohe police substations to reduce long lines.

The Hawaiian Humane Society rescued  Tuesday more than 40 purebred Pomeranian puppies and adults from "extremely filthy" living conditions at a longtime breeder's Halawa house.

It was early 2002, and in digging out from the financial impact of Sept. 11, 2001, the University of Hawaii needed some quick cash to help finish out the fiscal year.

This week marked 21⁄2 years since I started my granddaughters Sloane and Nakaylee in music classes with Ilisa Peralta at Island Guitar.

Star-Advertiser story wins regional award • Telescope's foes continue fight by filing appeal • Maui County charity walks rake in $789K

Ewa Beach car fire investigated as arson • Flammable liquid used in threat

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The wreckage had not been cleared from ground zero when planners and neighbors began imagining how the devastation of 9/11 could be redeemed — in some way — by a new World Trade Center, one that would be fully joined to the rest of Lower Manhattan rather than standing apart in chilling isolation.

The black flag of jihad flies over much of northern Syria. In the center of the country, pro-government militias and Hezbollah fighters battle those who threaten their communities. In the northeast, the Kurds have effectively carved out an autonomous zone.

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser strives to make its news report fair and accurate. If you have a question or comment about news coverage, call Ed Lynch, managing editor/news, at 529-4758.

After Spc. Freddy Hook, a medic with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, killed himself in 2010, the trail of possible causes seemed long.

"If I had a dollar every time they asked me for the next Honey Boo Boo Child," said James Bearb, a Louisiana native and the president of Hollywood South Casting, "I swear I would be the next millionaire."

In a mistake that could prove costly for taxpayers, the state will be forced to send a third mailing to 250,000 Quest health insurance members next month because of problems with two earlier correspondences.

Two Hawaii Army National Guard helicopters are flying missions looking for drug smugglers — not in the Aloha State, but along a portion of the 1,250 miles of Texas border with Mexico on the Rio Grande River.

Air Force Capt. Reid Nishi­zuka, a Hawaii native son and 2000 Kailua High graduate, was buried Monday at Punchbowl, joining so many other war heroes laid to rest there.

About 79,000 U.S. soldiers in the region are refocusing on working with other nations in Asia and the Pacific, as well as preparing for contingency operations, with the troops being taken off war duty rotations to Af­ghani­stan, the head of U.S. Army Pacific said Monday.