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A federal judge gave final approval Monday to a $5.75 million settlement to a class-action lawsuit that claims students at the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind physically and sexually assaulted other students.

Legislators and activists were all smiles Monday as they packed into Gov. Neil Abercrombie's ceremony room at the state Capitol to watch him sign into law a bill that ensures sexually assaulted women will have access to emergency contraception anywhere they seek emergency care.

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　ハワイ州運輸省は、過去6ヶ月間で道路上に設置してあった緊急連絡用の非常電話、約276台を撤去していたことを明らかにした。　当局スポークスマンは非常電話の撤去理由として、2001年度に2,634件だった非常電話の利用数が携帯電話の普及によって、2011年度には361件と大幅減となっているほか、約45の非常電話が損傷等による取替えが必要となるなど、非常電話の維持費も高騰しているためとしている。　一方市民からは携帯電話を利用してないドライバーもいるほか、携帯電話の電波が届かない場所で緊急事態に陥った際には非常電話が必要になるとの意見が上がっており、当局では今後もH3ハイウェイのトンネル内の40の非常電話とヨコハバベイの非常電話は引き続き利用可能とするとしている。
参考：ハワイ・ニュース・ナウ

　ニューヨークに拠点をおき、世界中から集めたグルメアイテムを販売している食のセレクトショップ「ディーン＆デルーカ（Dean & Deluca）」が、オアフ島ワイキキにハワイ1号店をオープンすることが明らかになった。　今回ディーン＆デルーカの出店が予定されているのは、ワイキキに2015年末から2016年初頭に完成予定となっている38階建てのリッツカールトン・レジデンス内で、ディーン＆デルーカの関係者は「世界に名だたるコミュニティーであるワイキキ地区に出店できることに興奮しています」とのコメントを発表している。　さらにディーン＆デルーカでは、今回出店が発表されたワイキキ店のほか、州内に数店舗の出店も計画している。
参考：パシフィック・ビジネス・ニュース

Paulino Calayag Baluyot • Pascual Berdadero • Richard Edward Bernard • Antonio Catugal • Victoriano P. Galiza • Dante Peter Gilman • Fredilina Higa-Castillo • Chiyoko Hiraoka • Yvonne Eva Iaela, and more

A loose coalition of Democratic elected officials, shareholder activists and pension funds has flooded the Securities and Exchange Commission with calls to require publicly traded corporations to disclose to shareholders all of their political donations, a move that could transform the growing world of secret campaign spending.

EAST LANSING, Mich. » President Barack Obama and the Democrats passed the 2010 health care law to make medical insurance available to more than 30 million people who do not have it.

State House and Senate budget negotiators said Monday that new contracts for public-sector labor unions would likely limit their options for spending on tax incentives and new state programs.

Glenn Cannon, an award-winning actor and director, educator and mentor to several generations of young actors, died Saturday at Straub Clinic & Hospital. He was 80.

Wally Lau, a member of the Juvenile Justice State Advisory Council who lives on Hawaii island, comes across the teenagers in chains at the Kona Airport, headed to Hono­lulu.

Wearing a pink frock and an upright pigtail, the toddler tapped a pen on the courtroom table and babbled a few syllables of her own while Family Court Judge Christine Kuri­yama addressed her parents.

U.S. Rep. Colleen Hana­busa has decided to challenge U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz in the Demo­cratic primary next year, according to a source close to her campaign.

Question: Renovation of the tennis courts at Kala­heo High School was begun well more than a year ago and seems to have stalled several times. The Kala­heo tennis team hasn’t been able to use these courts in years. When is the renovation going to be completed?

It may be true that the character of the worker is revealed by the tools she selects, but in the case of Lolly Romano — whose tools of trade include bulging bags of bouncing balls and not-so-bouncy beanbags, a fleet of modified trikes and go-carts, storerooms of hand-painted cardboard dinosaurs, and trunkloads of paddles and pulleys and fishing rods and catapults — perhaps it is wiser to focus on the results.

Driver dies after solo crash on Kunia Road • Ewa Beach vehicle blaze likely was arson

Governor signs repeal of land agency • Training will increase noise at Schofield • Charges filed in pellet attack at golf course • National parks' superintendent will start in June

Nearly 5,000 young people get in trouble with the law and land in Oahu's Family Court each year, but their cases are confidential by law so few people know who they are, how they wound up in court or what happens to them.

Mental health advocates are cautiously optimistic about a proposed law that would clarify who can be ordered to get outpatient psychiatric help.

Some 50,000 intermediate and high school students at public schools statewide will start taking a four-hour college-prep test beginning Tuesday.