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Q: Is there any venue for recycling prescription drugs here in Honolulu?

At least 11 states have passed laws this year regulating or restricting abortion, giving opponents of abortion what partisans on both sides of the issue say is an unusually high number of victories. In four additional states, bills have passed at least one house of the legislature.

In selling the health care overhaul to Congress, the Obama administration cited a once obscure research group at Dartmouth College to claim that it could not only cut billions in wasteful health care spending but make people healthier by doing so.

Honolulu peace activist Ann Wright was one of about 700 people taken into custody by Israeli defense forces after a raid on a flotilla of boats carrying aid to Gaza left nine people dead, friends of Wright's confirmed.

Gov. Linda Lingle will decide whether to sign or veto a contentious proposal to allow same-gender couples to form civl unions after returning from a two-week-long working trip to China and Japan, she said yesterday.

State agricultural officials will accompany Gov. Linda Lingle on her two-week trip to Asia to sign an agreement with the Chinese government to develop procedures for exporting Hawaii agricultural products to China.

A Kauai woman will be arraigned in District Court on July 7 for allegedly maintaining 16 horses in emaciated and dehydrated condition on land she leases from the state.

Twenty-seven candidates, including former elected officials, past political candidates and former public officials, have submitted their names for consideration to fill the vacancy on the City Council created by the election of Charles Djou to Congress.

Ed Case says he will not run for any other political office this year.

A motorcycle police officer arrested two men for allegedly racing at speeds up to 90 mph Sunday morning in the eastbound lanes of the H-3 freeway in Windward Oahu.

Hawaii was among the 35 states and the District of Columbia submitting applications for the second round of the Obama administration's Race to the Top competition to win a portion of $3.4 billion to drive education reform.

QUESTION: We were looking at our new driver's licenses and noticed that the okina (glottal stop) is not used in the name "Hawaii." Why not? Everything else seems to be used on the very busy-looking license.

WASHINGTON >> After a pair of votes the other day on some fine points of a major financial regulatory bill, Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts ducked out of the Capitol and back to his office, where he traded his suit and tie for softball gear, to lead his staff in an afternoon match-up against the office of Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee.

YARUMAL, Colombia >> Tucked away on a steep street in this rough-hewn mountain town, an old woman found herself diapering her middle-age children.