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Honolulu Fire Department and Ocean Safety personnel assisted a pair of one-man canoe paddlers Saturday as strong winds and high surf ushered in what is expected to be a windy and rainy three-day weekend.

BOSTON » When the U.S. military reported that Osama bin Laden was dead, social media went crazy.

Every weekday Robert Pa Jr. takes a two-hour bus ride from his home in Waianae to Waimanalo, looking forward to a full day's work — not in a stuffy office, but under a sunlit canopy of blue.

Since Lanakila's founding in 1939 as a "social enterprise" — employing people with disabilities in a business to fund and ensure social services — the organization has presented different faces to the community, according to www.lanakilapacific.org.

Hawaii Opera Theatre and Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites" are almost the same age: "Dialogues" premiered in 1957, HOT in 1961. In the half-century since, HOT has performed "Dialogues" only this once, making it Hawaii's premiere.

A Honolulu car salesman admitted in U.S. District Court on Thursday that he was a bookie for two Internet sports betting websites based in Costa Rica.

One of the defendants in a so-called "hit-and-run" credit card scam is being held in state custody without the opportunity for bail.

It's sowing season at the square building as we "flASHback" on the week's news that amused and confused:

　3連休となった週末、ハワイ州では強風注意報が発令され、各地で強風による倒木や建物被害が相次いだ。　ホノルル消防局は、オアフ島のリリハ地区、カパラマ地区、ワイキキ地区などで強風によって電柱が傾くなどの被害が発生し、カパラマ地区やカリヒ地区の一部で停電となったほか、パールシティ地区、アイエア地区、リリハ地区などでは強風によって住宅の屋根の一部が吹き飛ばされるなどの被害が発生したとしている。また、マウイ島でも強風によって倒れた木がアラモアナ通り沿いの送電線を切断するなどの被害が確認されている。　米国気象サービスは、今日の午後6時まで州内に強風注意報を発令しているほか、明日までは、風速25～30マイル、場所によっては風速50マイルの突風が吹く場合もあるとして、市民に対して引き続き強風に注意するよう呼びかけている。
参考：ホノルル・スター・アドバタイザー

　ハワイ最大級のチャリティー・ランニング・イベント「グレート・アロハ・ラン」が昨日開催され、約20,000人の参加者が強風の中、ランとウォーキングを楽しんだ。　8.15マイルのレースを最初に制したのは、39分46秒のタイムを記録したコロラド州ボルダーから参加したタイラー・マッキャンドレさんで、女性で最初にゴールインしたのは、ホノルル市在住のナタリー・クラフチェクさんで、タイムは49分38秒だった。
参考：パシフィック・ビジネス・ニュース

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The politically prominent owner of an engineering company that does work for the University of Hawaii has accused a top UH executive of wasting potentially millions of dollars in state money through what the engineer called blatant mismanagement of construction projects, including steering contracts to firms operated by friends.

EVERGREEN, Ala. » Jerome Gray, a 74-year-old black man, has voted in every election since 1974 in this verdant little outpost of some 4,000 people halfway between Mobile and Montgomery.

NEW YORK » For generations the residents of Breezy Point, Queens, have clung to their emerald roots.

John Aldaya • Ambrocio Burcena Aquino • Eugene Eiji Asato; and more

Man accused of having sex with minor • Driver seriously hurt after crashing vehicle

Cracked window forces helicopter to land • Comment period on fee extended • Highway lane to be closed

BOULDER, Colo. » Public colleges and universities have become a major front in the nation's debate over guns as gun-rights advocates press to expand the right to carry concealed weapons, a campaign that gained steam after the 2007 shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, which left 33 people dead.

HANJING, China » Wu Yiebing has been going down coal shafts practically every workday of his life, wrestling an electric drill for $500 a month in the choking dust of claustrophobic tunnels, with one goal in mind: paying for his daughter's education.

The City Council is considering a bill to make bus service free for senior citizens and disabled passengers, as the public awaits Mayor Kirk Caldwell's plan to reverse last year's service cuts and route changes.