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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

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.

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.

A Leilehua High teacher accused of distributing meth­am­pheta­mine was the person designated by her school to turn in confiscated drugs to police, a federal prosecutor said in court Monday.

Toby Stangel, accused of a shooting spree that killed a woman and wounded two others, will not take the witness stand in his own defense.

A search team found a missing 72-year-old Hana­lei, Kauai, woman in good condition Monday after she spent two nights — and Mother's Day — in the woods near Kokee.

Renee Gaspar quietly walked the periphery of the state Capitol courtyard with her 1-year-old granddaughter, Aleeya Boyett, Monday evening as Hono­­lulu Police Department Chaplain Shuji Koma­gata read the names of the 46 city law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty.

Advocates for Hawaiian sovereignty and other Native Hawaiian causes, the homeless and the (de)Occupy Hono­lulu movement dominated a community forum on the future of Thomas Square at the Honolulu Museum of Art on Monday night.

When Damien Memorial School senior Ethan Dayton steps to the dais May 26 to deliver his valedictory address, he'll do so with the wisdom of a young man who has not only reached a worthy academic milestone, but one who has seen his way through a personal journey of grief, love and self-discovery.

Flammable fluid allegedly used in attack • Truck fire closes parts of Maui highway • Man arrested in threat, injury to siblings