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More than 40,000 people watched some 2,000 floating lanterns drift to sea last night from Ala Moana Beach, ferrying wishes of healing and peace and honoring those who have died under hardships.

U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, who lost his right arm on an Italian battlefield 65 years ago, told a Memorial Day audience yesterday that "the price of honor comes at a supreme sacrifice" whether in a conflict nearly seven decades ago or in Afghanistan today.

Many Molokai and Lanai residents are losing pounds, reducing health risks and motivating neighbors to follow their example through a healthy lifestyle program.

The only known fringed orchid on Kauai might get some company soon thanks to an Illinois botany professor and his students.

KAILUA-KONA » Angelina Lovato tries to keep the faces of her students in focus, even as the road ahead of her blurs from the heat.

Thieves broke into a storage room at the Waipio Peninsula Soccer Complex on Sunday or early yesterday and stole golf carts, soccer gear and other items worth several thousand dollars.

An accused drug dealer who allegedly beat up the police informant who had him arrested remains back in custody without bail.

Two of the brightest stars in the sky can be found in the constellation Centaurus. Visible in the southern sky after sunset throughout June, Centaurus is a half-man, half-horse appearing to leap over the Southern Cross.

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After a towing company hauled Justin Kurtz's car from his apartment complex parking lot, despite his permit to park there, Kurtz, 21, a college student in Kalamazoo, Mich., went to the Internet for revenge.

BAGHDAD » The term was coined by the American military. But unlike some others—say, entry control points—the name managed to stick in the popular imagination. Green Zone always seemed to say so much, here and abroad.

By slipping out of a fight between state Sen. Colleen Hanabusa and former U.S. Rep. Ed Case, Hawaii's Democrats are hoping for a November knockout against Republican U.S. Rep. Charles Djou.

Traditional Hawaiian music prevailed as expected last night but by a closer margin than usual as the Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts presented the 2010 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards at the Hawai'i Convention Center.

Two letters from a homesick soldier in Vietnam that took four decades to reach home have become a life-affirming message for a Kapolei woman and her family.

Bystanders watched as a 47-year-old Mountain View man allegedly stabbed his 38-year-old wife to death Saturday on Hilo's waterfront.

June Watanabe's "Kokua Line" will return in June.

The Honolulu-based Coast Guard Cutter Walnut is headed to the Gulf of Mexico to help with the massive oil spill cleanup from the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded on April 20.

Timmy Leong, a self-taught bodybuilder who was one of Hawaii's most prominent musclemen and owner of Timmy's Health Gym, died of natural causes May 16 at the Queen's Medical Center. He was 83.