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The scent of Christmas trees is in the air, as the final shipments of evergreens from the Northwest coast arrive on the shores of Hawaii. The first major shipment of 40 containers arrived on Matson in mid-November, mostly for retail store displays and...
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The royal family of Hawaii boosted Santa Cruz's claim as the real Surf City, giving the city a bronze plaque honoring the three island princes who introduced surfing to the mainland when they first paddled out at the San Lorenzo River's mouth in 1885.
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The world No.2 heads to the Pipeline Masters next month needing another competitor to defeat close friend Mick Fanning as he must finish several positions ahead of the 2007 champion to claim a maiden world crown. With Parkinson and Fanning on opposite...
Tags: world title, Joel Parkinson, ankle injury, Hawaiian, Haleiwa, Sprained ankle, Mick Fanning, Parkinson, allnews
Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints on Sunday, including a 19th century priest who worked with leprosy patients on an isolated Hawaiian island, praising them as models of perfection for sacrificing themselves for others...Peter's Basilica was...
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President Barack Obama is expressing his admiration for Father Damien, a Hawaiian priest set to become a saint on Sunday when he is canonized in Rome by Pope Benedict XVI...The president says he remembers stories about the Belgian-born priest's work on...
Tags: Father Damien de Veuster, Hawaiian, Damien Memorial School, Barack Obama, Daniel Akaka, Rome
The Hawaiian woman whose recovery from lung cancer was called miraculous says the Belgian-born priest she prayed to is already a saint, even before the pope canonizes him Sunday. Audrey Toguchi, in Rome for the ceremony, says Father Damien's work with...
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Hawaii-established hurricane insurer Zephyr Insurance Co. Inc. has been sold by the Canadian insurer that bought it in 2005. Kingsway Financial Services Inc. said yesterday it had sold Zephyr to an acquisition company led by Florida-based Ocean Harbor...
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A U.S. citizen was arraigned in Hawaii on charges of international sex tourism after being deported from Cambodia, the U.S...Richard David Mitchell, 61, a Hawaiian resident, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in August with engaging in illicit...
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Department of Veterans Affairs is going to take 131,000 homeless veterans off the nation's street in five years, vows Kauai-born Eric "Ric" Shinseki, the Vietnam War veteran who is the agency's new leader. Shinseki said the VA will spend $3.2 billion...
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Tropical Storm Felicia continued pushing toward Hawaii Sunday and reconnaissance flights indicated some weakening, the National Weather Service reported...Air Force hurricane hunter planes measured wind gusts around 50 mph in heart of the storm, which...
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