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A state Senate committee Monday approved resolutions requesting a task force study the social, economic and religious consequences of enacting marriage equality legislation in Hawaii as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear two landmark same-sex marriage cases.

Members of the City Council and Mayor Kirk Caldwell's administration promised to try again to come up with a plan for the Haiku Stairs that would appease both hikers and Kaneohe residents who say they're tired of unruly visitors and other trespassers.

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　テキサス州ヒューストンに拠点を置くイタリアン・レストランチェーンの「ラッソズ・コール・ファイヤード・イタリアン・キッチン（Russo’s Coal-Fired Italian Kitchen）」が、オアフ島西部のエヴァ地区にハワイ1号店をオープン予定であることが明らかになった。　新レストランがオープンを予定しているのは、エヴァ地区にあるラウラニ・ビレッジ・ショッピング・センターで、関係者は、2,500平方フィートの店舗スペースのほか、約1,000平方フィートの屋外スペースを有するレストランになるとしている。
参考：パシフィック・ビジネス・ニュース

　米CBSは昨日、ハワイを舞台にしている人気ドラマ「ハワイ5-O」の新シーズンとなるシーズン4の製作を行うと発表した。CBSではこのほか、「NCIS～ネイビー犯罪捜査班」や「CSI科学捜査班」などの人気ドラマ18番組の制作を行うとしている。　ハワイ5-Oは現在シーズン3を全米で放映中で、4月19日（金）にはシーズン3の撮影が終了し、5月中旬にはシーズン3の最終話が放映される予定となっている。
参考：ホノルル・スター・アドバタイザー

State natural resources officials are asking a federal judge to overturn a Hawaii County ban on aerial hunting, at least when it is conducted by the state or its contractors.

Wol Sun Baek • Paul Exum Blakemore • Sayoko Doi • Lucy Lola Fielding • Charlene Dejionalyn Tuivale Fualaau • Janice Mitsue Kadooka • Fumiko Koike, and more

After 35 years of field research in the Serengeti plains, Craig Packer, director of the Lion Research Center at the University of Minnesota, has lost all patience with the romance of African wilderness.

The 921-foot cruise ship Pride of America is in the Pearl Harbor shipyard for two weeks for more than $30 million in renovation work, officials said.

A private garbage truck fatally injured an 88-year-old woman walking to her apartment at the Queen Emma Gardens condominium complex in Nuuanu on Monday morning.

We have noticed a small boat anchored off Magic Island that has not moved for weeks (possibly longer). There seems to be no activity onboard and the boat has not moved even during the recent windy and rough ocean weather.

Matthew Hayakawa would have you believe that he's just another shiftless 19-year-old who whiles away his days watching his beloved Oklahoma City Thunder on TV and playing "Call of Duty" until the wee hours.

Puna woman charged in knife attack • Collision leaves driver seriously injured • Man, 25, is hurt in apparent stabbing

Ex-LAPD officer pleads guilty in wife's death • Son gets jail for using dad's disability cash • Donors give DLNR a boat and funds to hire 6 people • Kayakers saved by Coast Guard off Valley Island

When roadwork doesn't get done, the effects aren't always obvious. Often it takes years for the cracks to appear, for the asphalt to crumble — for the damage to catch up to the neglect.

After a growing chorus of Hono­lulu motorists complained that thousands of potholes plaguing the streets were wrecking their cars, the city auditor's office decided to take a hard look at its roadwork practices.

Darrell Goo, vice president of operations for Grace Pacific Corp., has been with the company since 1992. The company is one of three contractors on Oahu bidding for city road repaving projects. He's never seen so much work out to bid for the city of Hono­lulu as there is right now.

Lawmakers have downgraded some of this year's unsuccessful education bills to resolutions encouraging public school officials to instead study or consider certain initiatives rather than make them with new laws.

A program to improve the oral health of pregnant Native Hawaiian women and their children has received a $100,000 grant from the HMSA Foundation.