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WASHINGTON » Robert S. Mueller III was awakened at home close to 1:30 a.m. on April 19 as one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing was in cardiac arrest and the other was on the run.

WEST, Texas » Five days after an explosion at a fertilizer plant leveled a wide swath of this town, Gov. Rick Perry tried to woo Illinois business officials by trumpeting his state's low taxes and limited regulations.

WASHINGTON » A former legal adviser to the State Department has sharply criticized the secrecy surrounding the Obama administration's use of drones for the targeted killing of terrorism suspects, saying it is unnecessary and has backfired.

SABHA, Jordan » The parents were petrified the oldest of their seven children would be drafted into the Syrian army. For their teenage girl, they feared rape and kidnapping.

Raw-sewage spill closes Maui beaches • Pot advocate's defense bogus, judge says • Dog is euthanized after attacking boy; and more

Police are looking for a group of males who allegedly impersonated police officers, kidnapped three people and took several machines in the robbery of a Kalihi gaming establishment early Tuesday morning.

State Sen. Malama Solomon, former Department of Hawaiian Home Lands Commissioner Stuart Hanchett and about 20 other Native Hawaiians are members of an exclusive group.

WAIMEA, Hawaii island » Just above the state's most expensive private school, four homes and several other structures sit on a 125-acre hillside parcel with commanding views of this rural community and the ocean on the distant horizon.

For the past 17 years, James and Jane Saku­gawa have rented roughly 5,000 acres of ranch property on Maui from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. That is 80 percent of all land DHHL is leasing to tenants on that island through its revocable-permit program.

City officials said they will begin installing potted plants along the rim of the Neal Blaisdell Center Concert Hall lawn to separate people camped on the sidewalk from high school graduates and their guests, as well as people attending public performances at the music hall.

The names, email addresses, cellphone numbers and passwords for about 3,500 people who signed up for email or text message alerts from the Hono­lulu Police Department's former "HPD Alerts" system may have had their personal information compromised after the server was hacked by "an unauthorized person or persons" over the weekend.

Kamehameha Schools CEO Dee Jay Mailer has announced plans to retire at the end of 2014, giving the school's board of trustees ample time to recruit a successor.

Maui police are looking for two men who allegedly attacked a Kahu­lui man on a street in Wai­luku, striking him on the head with a rock and shooting the rear window of his car with a shotgun.

M.R.C. Greenwood, who drew high praise and strong criticism during her four years at the helm of the University of Hawaii system, has announced she will retire in September to spend more time with family and deal with her health problems.

Cindy Nguyen pointed to Toby Stangel in state court Monday as the person who fatally shot her mother at a stoplight in Kaimuki nearly two years ago.

A midnight phone call is almost never good news, and that proved true for Roslyn Bersamin of Pearl City, who learned Saturday that her younger sister had died in a horrific limousine fire en route to her bachelorette party in the San Francisco Bay area.

Antonita Phillip knew her youngest daughter, Junny, needed more help than she could get at home in Onoun, Chuuk.

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　ハワイ州当局が発表した最新の調査結果で、2012年度に州内の公立高校を卒業した学生の大学進学率が前年より上昇したことが明らかになった。　調査結果によると、昨年の公立高校生卒業生の大学進学率は前年比1%増の54%となったほか、学生の英語と数学のレベルも上昇しており、より多くの学生が、大学進学時に予備クラスではなく、大学の英語や数学クラスに登録していることも同時に発表されている。
参考：ハワイ・ニュース・ナウ

　昨日午後3時20分ごろ、オアフ島ダウンタウンのフォート通りに小型ヘリコプターが不時着する事故があり、周辺道路が一時的に閉鎖となった。　不時着したのは、2人乗りの小型ヘリコプターで、ヘリを操縦していた30歳のジュリア・リンクさんと同乗者でカメラマンのカール・ヘドバーグさんの両名とも軽傷だったほか、不時着現場にいた人々にも怪我人は出なかった。　関係者によると、小型ヘリはパンチボウルとマキキ地区の上空で写真撮影を行っていた際にエンジントラブル見舞われ、ダウンタウン地区に不時着することになったとしている。なお、ヘリは不時着時に、路上に駐車してあった小型のセダンに衝突したものの、その他の大きな被害はなく、今後連邦航空局によるエンジントラブルの原因な調査などが行われる予定となっている。
参考：ハワイ・ニュース・ナウ