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Over the last two years, government watchdog groups filed more than a dozen complaints with the Internal Revenue Service seeking inquiries into whether large nonprofit organizations like those founded by the Republican political operative Karl Rove and former Obama administration aides had violated their tax-exempt status by spending tens of millions of dollars on political advertising.

As a gastronomic delicacy, the 5-ounce hamburger that Mark Post has painstakingly created here surely will not turn any heads. But Post is hoping that it will change some minds.

Albert Alexander • Poncie T. Alonzo • Matilde B. Balboa; and more

The deployment of the powerful Sea-Based X-Band Radar from Pearl Harbor in March was hailed as a significant precaution in the face of a possible North Korean missile launch.

For nearly 60 years, a government-run outpost in the remote heights of Mauna Loa has provided among the best data on the world's rising greenhouse gas levels. On Thursday, data from that station showed the main gas known to cause global warming reaching a worrisome new milestone.

On vacation with her boyfriend, rapper Big Sean, actress Naya Rivera — better known as cheerleader Santana Lopez on the Fox hit show "Glee" — paid a visit Friday to the young patients in the recreation therapy room of Hono­lulu's Shriners Hospitals for Children.

The Hawaii state flag will be flown at half-staff today in honor of Air Force Capt. Reid Nishi­zuka, who died in a plane crash in Af­ghani­stan.

The Clarence T.C. Ching Foundation has given $7.5 million to Saint Louis School, the largest gift in the school's 167-year history, the school announced last week.

Kakaako has long been envisioned by state planners to become a dense piece of Hono­lulu's urban core with tall buildings. But development in the area would become much denser and taller under a draft plan tied to the city's rail project.

Repairs to a major water main break left the normally bustling McCully Shopping Center unusually quiet for a Friday afternoon, with some businesses estimating a loss of as much as a third of their usual business.

Hawaii mail carriers will join more than 175,000 nationwide today in the Postal Service's annual "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive.

Monday night’s meeting on the future of Thomas Square is expected to draw so many people that Hono­lulu Museum of Art Director Stephan Jost is worried there won’t be enough room in the 280-seat Doris Duke Theatre to accommodate everyone.

Hawaii Pacific University has named Matthew Liao-Troth as its first provost to help manage and oversee the 7,500-student private university.

Moped casualty was California visitor • Kaunakakai resident killed in collision

Maunalua fireworks get help from donor • Man who died while hiking is identified • Nualolo Cliff trail’s condition forces closure

Carey Nobuo Akamine • Cleo Cintron Faddis • Mark Sal Garcia; and more

NEW YORK » According to the air bill slapped on the crate that arrived at Kennedy International Airport from London, an unnamed painting worth $100 was inside.

NEW YORK » As the major television networks prepare to unveil their new fall lineups in New York this week, they face threats from seemingly every corner.