
Police investigate Kailua-Kona woman’s death as homicide
Hawaii island police have opened a homicide investigation after a 34-year-old woman was found dead in Kona Tuesday night.
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Hawaii island police have opened a homicide investigation after a 34-year-old woman was found dead in Kona Tuesday night.

UC Davis established itself as the primary contender to Hawaii in the Mountain West Conference this season with a rather easy 25-15, 27-25, 25-20 sweep of the Rainbow Wahine today at University Credit Union Center in Davis, Calif.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom today warned the state’s top judges that the Trump administration may try to seize midterm election ballots as a legal battle continued over unproven federal claims that noncitizens are voting in huge numbers in the state.

A 23-year-old man died today after he lost control of the speeding motorcycle he was riding and crashed on H-2 freeway in Mililani, police said.

CHERNIHIV REGION, Ukrain >> Starved and exhausted residents from the Russian-controlled town of Oleshky crossed into Ukraine today in a major return of civilians under the first humanitarian truce of its kind in more than four years of the war.

A 75-year-old woman who was struck by a vehicle as she walked through the Kahala Mall parking lot on Tuesday has died, police said.

A 66-year-old man was critically injured Friday night after he was hit by a vehicle while riding an electric bicycle on Punchbowl Street, according to Emergency Medical Services.
NEW YORK >> U.S. electricity prices had flown under the radar in past national elections, but they have become a major political issue in this year’s midterms as Americans grow angry over rising utility bills and deals for power-hungry data centers.

A 22-year-old with an undergraduate degree in biology has applied for 511 jobs and counting. She was recently rejected from a role at Whole Foods after being “interviewed” by a chatbot named Sage.

Costs are soaring for people who care for their older parents and other family members, according to a new study.

For decades, Republicans and Democrats agreed that a “smart wall” of surveillance cameras and other high-tech equipment would be a potent tool to stop illegal immigration and drug trafficking across the southern border.

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She nailed it. In a recent guest column by local pastor the Rev. Dr. Amy Butler of the Community Church of Honolulu, Butler was exceptionally clear about the difference between Christian nationalism and the Christian faith (“Christian nationalism simply has no place in practice of Christian faith,” Star-Advertiser, Island Voices, Oct. 26). She sees Christian nationalism as exclusionary, while Christian faith is inclusive — rightly aligned with the basic teachings of Jesus Christ.