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The city likely won't be able to begin enforcement of a new "sidewalk nuisance" law until the summer, Mayor Kirk Caldwell said Tuesday after the City Council unanimously approved the bill.

Public school teachers voted Wednesday to approve a $330 million, four-year contract that will tie their pay raises in part to student performance.

Around 6:15 a.m., Sunday, April 7, I noticed a city truck on Kahekili Highway in Kaneohe hauling a large boat with the driver and his passenger on their way to what appeared to be a fishing trip. Was this an official use of a city vehicle?

Whatever happened to the 20,000 tons of Oahu municipal waste that Hawaiian Waste Systems planned to ship to the U.S. mainland?

Date of Pflueger trial to be decided today • Water outage set in Hanalei

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　自動車購入サイトであるCars.comが発表した最新の調査結果で、ホノルル市内での電気自動車やハイブリッド自動車などのエコカー購入率が全米7位であることが明らかになった。　同サイトによると、全米でもっともエコカーの購入率が高かったのは、カリフォルニア州のサンフランシスコ・オークランド・サンノゼ地区で、次いでカリフォルニアのモントレー・サリナス地区、3位には同じくカリフォルニアのサンディエゴがランクインしている。また、第7位のハワイに次いでエコカーの購入率が高かったのはオハイオ州のリマ、次いでオレゴン州のメドフォード、カリフォルニア州のサクラメント・ストックトン・モデストとなっている。
参考：ホノルル・スター・アドバタイザー

　ホノルル市のカーク・コールドウェル市長は昨日、当局によるホノルル市内の歩道に放置されている個人の所有物の即時撤去を認める新法案を承認した。なお、新法案の本格施行は今年7月からとなっている。　ホノルル市内では今回の新法案が承認されるまで、市内の歩道に放置されているテントや家具などを含む個人の所有物を当局側が強制撤去する際には、持ち物の所有者に対し24時間の猶予を与えるとしていたものの、今回承認された新法案では、放置アイテムの即時撤去が認められている。
参考：KHON2

WASHINGTON » Moments after the Senate defeated gun legislation this week, Patricia Maisch, a 64-year-old Tucson, Ariz., woman who helped stop the 2011 massacre there, stood up in the gallery and shouted "Shame on you!" at the lawmakers below.

The latest commercial for Dove seems to have gone beyond the skin and touched a nerve. An online video, presented in three- and six-minute versions, shows a forensic sketch artist who is asked to draw a series of women based only on their descriptions.

Pedestrian dies in Puna crash

Bandleader Matt Catingub announced Tuesday the formation of a new organization, Hawaii Pops, which will pre­sent music in a variety of forms, from orchestral to big band to small ensemble.

A Queen's Health Systems administrator Tuesday made it clear to Ewa Beach lawmakers that the state's largest private hospital system will not be able to open emergency room operations before the scheduled opening of the new Queen's Medical Center West Oahu in spring 2014.

State Circuit Judge Michael Wilson sentenced Less Schna­bel Jr. on Tuesday to 10 years in prison — the maximum allowed for first-degree assault — for killing a prospective University of Hawaii law student in 2007 with one punch.

A second Hono­lulu man allegedly connected to a gambling website is scheduled to plead guilty to placing bets online, money laundering and filing a false tax return.

The arrival of sharks canceled state and federal officials' plans Tuesday to tow a newborn humpback whale carcass ashore and find out the cause of its death off the North Shore.

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell said he'll personally forgo a raise proposed by the city Salary Commission and will hold off on pay raises for his department heads until contracts are reached with union employees.

By Derrick DePledge

ddepledge@staradvertiser.

Legislators are aiming to expand the state's partial public financing law this session by providing a means for House of Representative candidates to run completely taxpayer-funded campaigns.