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WELLS, Maine » It was an unusual sign, even for a restaurant here along the Maine coast, where seasonal home-grown businesses are a way of life.

NEW YORK » The old steel rim that presides over this public basketball court absorbs missed shots with an angry clank, sending the ball careening upward and the wood and metal backboard into a rickety seizure.

Hawaii's Democratic Party starts this Memorial Day weekend testing how far it can go without blowing up. The party's biennial convention opened last night at the Hilton Hawaiian Village with an estimated 750 delegates and a warning from interim Chairman Dante Carpenter.

The city hopes students graduating this weekend will help make sure that there are enough leis to adorn the graves of veterans on Memorial Day.

Hawaii has become the first state to ban the possession, sale, trade or distribution of shark fins in an attempt to prevent the extinction of the ocean predators.

The USS Texas has left Pearl Harbor on the first six-month deployment conducted by a Pacific-based Virginia-class submarine.

Candidates hoping to fill the vacancy on the City Council will get a job interview of sorts at a special committee hearing Thursday, when a potential successor is likely to be picked.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Gervin Miyamoto, a longtime isle law enforcement officer, as the next U.S. marshal for Hawaii.

The U.S. attorney is defending a U.S. census worker in a state trespass charge and wants to transfer the case to federal court.

Island philanthropist, former beauty queen and actress Marjorie Carter Midkiff showed generosity not just to her family and through charitable organizations, but also to people with whom she came into contact on a daily basis, her granddaughter Catherine Sharpe said.

The Kaohe Game Management Area and portions of the Mauna Kea Forest Reserve on the Big Island will be closed to the public from June 4 to Aug. 31 due to a high risk of fire.

QUESTION: Which agency is responsible for picking up fishnets, (dead) animals and debris that float up on Oahu beaches?

Five-year-old Sadiq was not a casualty of war. He was simply unlucky. The boy had opened a sack of grain at his home Wednesday morning, and a pit viper coiled inside lashed up and bit him above the lip.

After years of citing national security, social necessity and economic crisis as sufficient justification to pass costly legislation without paying for it, members of Congress are getting cold feet about continually adding to the national vat of red ink.

The race is officially on. Again. Mufi Hannemann made the long-expected announcement yesterday that he will skip his final two years as Honolulu mayor to run for governor.