Beginners take heart: Indigo dyeing makes everyone look good
When the outcome of a craft project is a surprise, it’s often not a good surprise. My recent experience trying indigo dyeing in Tokyo was an exception to that rule.
Pocket-size seed packets speak volumes
A seed packet may be small, but it speaks volumes.
West Hawaii legislators outline session priorities
HILO — Hospital, courthouse, school and airport upgrades. Solutions to homelessness, protection for kupuna, tax credits for battery storage of electricity, outlawing a controversial pesticide.
Big doings in NFL finales center on NFC South
There’s no question the NFC has been the dominant conference this season, with the South being the top division.
Magnificent Mochi
KEALAKEKUA – Volunteers made over 1,000 pounds of Mochi Saturday for Kona Hongwanji’s annual New Year’s sale.
Illegal fireworks crackdown: Police: ‘We’re coming to look’ for aerial pyrotechnics
The Hawaii Police Department is taking an aggressive stand against illegal fireworks violators who threaten to turn New Year’s festivities into “war zones.”
New economic protests in Tehran challenge Iran’s government
TEHRAN, Iran — A wave of spontaneous protests over Iran’s weak economy swept into Tehran on Saturday, with college students and others chanting against the government just hours after hard-liners held their own rally in support of the Islamic Republic’s clerical establishment.
AP News in Brief 12-31-17
Men charged in deaths of two women and two children
Business roundup: 12-31-17
Boivin appointed new president of Young Brothers
When judicial deference becomes dereliction of duty
WASHINGTON — Wisconsin’s Supreme Court can soon right a flagrant wrong stemming from events set in motion in 2014 at Milwaukee’s Marquette University by Cheryl Abbate. Although just a graduate student, she already had a precocious aptitude for academic nastiness.
College basketball: Butler’s 3-point barrage stops No. 1 Villanova 101-93
INDIANAPOLIS — No. 1 Villanova learned a tough lesson Saturday.
College football: No. 9 Penn State tops No. 12 Washington 35-28 in Fiesta Bowl
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Trace McSorley threw for 342 yards and two touchdowns, Saquon Barkley ran for two more scores and No. 9 Penn State outlasted No. 12 Washington 35-28 in the Fiesta Bowl on Saturday.
College football: Meltdown by Richt, Hurricanes in 34-24 loss to Wisconsin
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The Miami Hurricanes took an early 11-point lead over Wisconsin in the Orange Bowl and lost it.
“Cyborg” Justino defends belt by decision vs Holm at UFC 219
LAS VEGAS — Cris “Cyborg” Justino used power strikes and kicks to beat Holly Holm by unanimous decision and defend her featherweight belt at UFC 219 on Saturday night.
Letters to the editor: 12-31-17
Tax change benefits rich
Obituaries: 12-30-17
Elvira Ramos
Sports deaths: Halladay, Hawkins; Enberg’s voice silenced
Roy Halladay seemed from another time. He pitched deep into games — complete games, the vanished art — and won a couple of Cy Young Awards along the way.
NFL: Where’s the power? NFC has big edge on AFC in 2017
The NFC dominated the AFC in interconference matchups this season in a fashion the conference hadn’t done since the first year of the merger.
No. 5 Ohio State take anger out on USC in Cotton Bowl
ARLINGTON, Texas — Playoff-snubbed Ohio State got a bit defensive even without one of its best defenders in the Cotton Bowl.
Police, ranchers cooperate to curb Ka‘u cattle killings
KAILUA-KONA — Cattle ranchers want more police hired to patrol Ka‘u, but Mayor Harry Kim and the Hawaii Police Department consider that request a non-starter.
Sea level forecast alarming: Report predicts hundreds on Big Island would be displaced, great economic loss
HILO — A state report on the impacts of sea level rise estimates that a 3.2-foot increase would displace 1,000 Hawaii Island residents and pose a serious flooding risk to urban areas of Hilo and Kona, in addition to resorts in Puako.
US appeals court: Feds erred in Hawaii fishery expansion
HONOLULU — Federal agencies were wrong to allow Hawaii’s longline swordfish industry to expand fishing efforts while allowing the hooking or entangling of more endangered sea turtles, a U.S. appeals court ruled.
AP News in Brief 12-30-17
Officials: Deadly NYC fire lit by child playing with stove
Trump trains crosshairs on favorite target, again – Amazon
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump returned to a favorite target Friday, saying that Amazon.com should be charged more by the U.S. Postal Service for the packages it sends around the world.
Gunman opens fire on Cairo church; shootout kills at least 9
CAIRO — A gunman on a motorcycle opened fire Friday outside a church in a Cairo suburb and at a nearby store, sparking a shootout that killed at least nine people, including eight Coptic Christians, authorities said. It was the latest attack targeting Egypt’s embattled Christian minority.
