Honolulu Star-Advertiser

12/17/2024

The Rainbow Wahine held Arkansas-Pine Bluff to a record-low 15 points against a Division I opponent in a 56-15 thumping of the Golden Lions on Monday night.

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12/17/2024

TODAY'S BIG Q: Are you a believer in bitcoin and cryptocurrency?

A. Yes; fairly bullish on cryptocurrency
B. No; it’s a fad, very fringe thing
C. Hard to say, but openminded on it

This is not a scientific poll — results reflect only the opinions of those voting.

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12/17/2024

OPINION: "Now, the Navy must endeavor not to offset hard-won gains with ecological snafus, an example being the ongoing spate of untreated wastewater discharges at MCBH and Pearl Harbor."

Hawaii’s tenuous relationship with the Navy reached a tipping point in November 2021, when a crisis at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility saw thousands of gallons of jet fuel gush into a fire suppression system and later contaminate a drinking w...

12/17/2024

OPINION: "With modern technology and up-to-date equipment, the coroner is unable to find the cause and is keeping the investigation under wraps until an examination is complete. The public needs to know what happened, but some couldn’t care less what he died from."

Michael Miske’s death is still being investigated and so far there is no sign of foul play or su***de. An autopsy came back inconclusive. An exact cause of death remains under investigation. With modern technology and up-to-date equipment, the corone...

12/17/2024

OPINION: "As for those emptied Red Hill fuel tanks, these can serve as a kind of landfill to receive non-toxic trash. This would reduce demand for landfills or at least buy time to develop better trash disposal processes."

This perpetual search for new landfills is an endless exercise in futility, primarily because it deals with the symptom of opala overload rather than pursuing a goal of modernizing the handling of solid waste. Perhaps it is time for our modern-day pl...

12/17/2024

Here's how Hawaii players fared in the NFL.

University of Hawaii

12/17/2024

: "Whoever is proposing Bill 46 is a fool. Fascism starts when the government takes away property. This bill is an invasion of our basic right to own property. We have the right to keep that property empty or fill it with cats and dogs, or maybe even human beings," writes Allen Canter of Hawaii Kai in a letter to the editor.

📷: Craig T. Kojima

Whoever is proposing Bill 46 is a fool. Fascism starts when the government takes away property. This bill is an invasion of our basic right to own property. We have the right to keep that property empty or fill it with cats and dogs, or maybe even hu...

12/17/2024

The Army-Navy rivalry ran deep in Hawaii—and even Joe DiMaggio couldn’t escape the call to play.
📷: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The week of the annual Army-Navy football game does different things to different people.

12/17/2024

Star News Live - Hawaii's News Headlines with Kiana Cayabyab for 12/16/24.

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12/17/2024

Outside hitter Caylen Alexander is one of three Rainbow Wahine to enter the transfer portal after the season ended.

Outside hitter Caylen Alexander, who entered the transfer portal last week after completing her third season at Hawaii, announced on her Instagram page today she is transferring to Missouri.

12/17/2024

In a stinging resignation letter, Freeland dismissed Trudeau’s push for increased spending as a political gimmick that could hurt Ottawa’s ability to deal with the 25% import tariffs President-elect Donald Trump says he will impose.

📷: Reuters

OTTAWA >> Canada’s Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland quit today after clashing with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on issues including how to handle possible U.S. tariffs, dealing an unexpected blow to an already unpopular government.

12/17/2024

It marks the first time Kobayashi has been seen in the U.S. since she walked across the southern border between San Diego and Tijuana on Nov. 12.
📷: Wally Skalij / LA Times

Hannah Kobayashi has returned to the United States after disappearing for weeks and then being tracked down in Mexico, according to a report published today.

12/16/2024

: "The public needs to know what happened, but some couldn’t care less what he died from," writes John Keala of Waianae in a letter to the editor.
📷: HPD

Michael Miske’s death is still being investigated and so far there is no sign of foul play or su***de. An autopsy came back inconclusive. An exact cause of death remains under investigation. With modern technology and up-to-date equipment, the corone...

12/16/2024

Hawaii (5-3) lost for the first time this season to a team that isn’t undefeated. Its other two losses were against Portland (11-0) in its season opener and No. 1 UCLA (10-0) two weeks ago.

📷: George F. Lee

The Hawaii women’s basketball team lost its last game in extra time and then waited a long time to get back on the court.

12/16/2024

TikTok and ByteDance filed an emergency request to the justices for an injunction to halt the looming ban on the social media app used by about 170 million Americans while they appeal a lower court’s ruling that upheld the law.

📷: Reuters

WASHINGTON >> TikTok made a last-ditch effort today to continue operating in the United States, asking the Supreme Court to temporarily block a law intended to force ByteDance, its China-based parent company, to divest the short-video app by Jan. 19 ...

12/16/2024

The bill authorizing the medal to those who served in Dustoff units during Vietnam was introduced by Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, and signed into law Sept. 26 by President Joe Biden.

📷: Courtesy photo

A 90-year-old Kailua-Kona resident who served as a battlefield air ambulance
helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War is among about 3,500 U.S. Army Dustoff crew members, living and dead, recently honored with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest...

12/16/2024

The New York Police Department said investigators have matched Mangione’s fingerprints to evidence found near the scene, and that three shell casings they recovered match a ghost gun Mangione had when he was arrested.

📷: Altoona Police Department

Video. Fingerprints. A weapon. A manifesto. A plan.

12/16/2024

Community groups rally support for families this holiday season.

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📷: HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MAUI