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1 suspect arrested in Kapolei kidnapping • No one injured in Hilo house fire

Man is arrested after ruckus aboard bus • Big Isle bus rider sought for touching minor • Man charged in girlfriend's shooting death • Moped driver dies after crash into rock wall

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　英単語の暗記力を競う大会「スペリング・ビー」が23日（土）に開催され、カウアイ島在住のタカバヤシ・アキラ君が見事優勝を果たした。タカバヤシ君は今年5月に首都ワシントンで開催される全米規模のスペル暗記大会に、ハワイ州代表として参加する予定となっている。　カウアイ島のチーフェス・カマカヘレイ中学8年生のタカバヤシ君は今回、英単語の「lamentation」の綴りを正確に発表し、チャンピオンの座を獲得している。
参考：KHON2

　ハワイ州のニール･アバクロンビー知事は昨日、州とハワイ州教職員組合間で話し合いが続けられていた教職員の新労働条件が仮合意にまで達したと発表した。　今回発表された新労働条件では、手始めに2011年度に実施された教職員の給与5%カットを廃止し、さらに3%の賃上げを行うほか、2年目には3.2%、3年目には3%、そして4年目には3.2%の賃上げを段階的に実施するとしている。
　なお今回詳細が明らかになった新労働条件は今後、組合員による投票で正式に合意に達するか否かが決定されることになっており、教職員組合では、4月17日（水）に組合員による投票を行いたいとしている。
参考：ホノルル・スター・アドバタイザー

By DALLAS » Daniel Vaughn stood at the counter at Lockhart Smokehouse here, ordering dinner. Lockhart serves smoked meat the way butchers serve raw meat — wrapped in a large rectangle of butcher paper — and its customers are encouraged to eat it the way cowboys used to, or maybe Neanderthals, without sauce, forks or even plates.

A screaming comes across the sky. Again and again, all day long. Here at the 36th annual TiCo Warbird Airshow, fighter jets and vintage planes roar and rumble by as viewers ooh, aah and then walk over to the line of food stands to buy funnel cakes and gyros, corn dogs and root-beer floats.

Priscilla Nacnac Andres • Serviliano Bantilan • James Keheakamana‘o-okaleookalani Beckley

The number of firearm registrations in Hawaii reached a record high of 50,394 last year, matching a national trend toward more gun ownership as the nation's leaders debate stiffer laws.

The shooting death of 24-year-old Malia Kahale­wai on Wednesday night rocked the tightknit community on Molokai. The Honouliwai woman was running from her abusive boyfriend, hiding at a female friend's Kawela home when 33-year-old Marlin Lavoie allegedly shot and killed her.

UH-Manoa Chancellor Tom Apple plans to ask the University of Hawaii Board of Regents to forgive the athletic department's $11.3 million — and escalating — accumulated net deficit as part of a major restructuring effort.

In a letter to an accrediting body Thursday, the University of Hawaii acknowledged rocky relationships with legislators in the wake of last year's Stevie Wonder concert debacle but said the situation is improving.

Three Senate committees on Thursday shelved a bill that would have required disclosure labels for genetically modified imported produce. Sen. Clarence Nishihara (D, Wai­pahu-Pearl City), chairman of the Agriculture Committee, said deferring the bill, which many legislators concede was flawed, was prudent and responsible.

Kamehameha Schools and Foodland Super Market say they have lots of community support to develop a new shopping center in Hawaii Kai, but many people turned out at a meeting Thursday night to say they don't like the plan envisioned for preservation-zoned land at the entry of the community.

A state judge ruled Thursday that even though Tittleman Fauatea has a long, documented history of mental illness and was probably suffering from mental illness when he fatally stabbed a stranger at Ewa Town Center four years ago, the level of his mental impairment was not substantial enough to qualify him for an insanity acquittal.

Fourteen students from public and private schools statewide are vying for the chance to represent Hawaii at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., in May.

Mayor Kirk Caldwell released a report Thursday that identifies sites that pose rockfall hazards to city property, and announced that the city has warned about 1,000 private property owners whose land is at high risk of rockfall.

Q: When are substitute teachers going to receive the back pay they won more than a year ago? • Mahalo: Police and county crew assist in removing road block

Man accused of murder gets new lawyer • Search for hiker called off after she calls in