Oahu driver gets 30 years after truck kills 3, injures 4
HONOLULU — An Oahu judge sentenced a man to 30 years in prison for manslaughter and assault after his speeding pickup truck killed three people waiting to cross a street and injured four others.
In Brief: June 20, 2021
Bidens’ older dog, Champ, has died; German shepherd was 13
Juneteenth, recalling end of slavery, is marked across US
Parades, picnics and lessons in history were offered Saturday to commemorate Juneteenth in the U.S., a day that carried even more significance after Congress and President Joe Biden created a federal holiday to observe the end of slavery.
Maui’s remote ‘Road to Hana’ sees crowds and traffic jams
HANA — Some people who live in east Maui say the famed Road to Hana is becoming a gridlocked maze of illegally parked cars driven by tourists.
Social media fact check: June 19, 2021
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
Lawmakers mark Juneteenth by reviving ‘abolition amendment’
As the nation this week made Juneteenth a federal holiday, honoring the end of the enslavement of Black people, lawmakers are reviving calls to end a loophole in the Constitution that allowed another form of slavery — forced labor for those convicted of some crimes — to thrive.
In Brief: June 19, 2021
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Sharpton condemns Honolulu police shooting of Black man
HONOLULU — Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton is condemning the Honolulu Police Department for the fatal shooting of a Black man as various versions of what led to the death continue to emerge.
In Brief: June 18, 2021
‘Obamacare’ survives: Supreme Court dismisses big challenge
Honolulu police vow to be more transparent after shootings
HONOLULU — The Honolulu Police Department says it is making changes to be more transparent and address use of force tactics.
‘Suffocated’: Art becomes form of protest against Olympics
TOKYO — Miwako Sakauchi stands in her studio and brushes spinning swirls on torn cardboard and drawing paper, using the five colors designated as symbols of the modern Olympiad.
Ige appoints DeCoite to empty Senate seat
HONOLULU — Gov. David Ige on Thursday appointed state Rep. Lynn DeCoite to fill the Senate seat left vacant by the retirement of former Sen. Kalani English.
Israel strikes Gaza after Hamas fires incendiary balloons
JERUSALEM — Israel launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip late Thursday for a second time since a shaky cease-fire ended last month’s 11-day war. The strikes came after activists mobilized by Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers launched incendiary balloons into Israel for a third straight day.
Top general ‘shocked’ by AP report on AWOL guns, mulls fix
Shocked by an Associated Press investigation into the loss and theft of military guns, the Pentagon’s top general signaled Thursday that he will consider a “systematic fix” to how the armed services keep account of their firearms.
New Zealand apologizes for 1970s raids on Pacific people
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Aupito William Sio recalled the terrifying day during his childhood when police officers holding German shepherd dogs turned up at his family home before dawn and shined flashlights into their faces while his father stood there helpless.
Kauai police search for missing Nebraska man suspended
LIHUE — Police in Hawaii have suspended searches for a Nebraska man whose family reported him missing after he failed to return home from a hiking and camping trip.
Millions fear eviction as US housing crisis worsens
NEW YORK — More than 4 million people say they fear being evicted or foreclosed upon in the coming months, just as two studies released Wednesday found that the nation’s housing availability and affordability crisis is expected to worsen significantly following the pandemic.
What’s going on up there? The significance of China’s new space station
JIUQUAN, China — Adding a crew to China’s new orbiting space station is another major advance for the burgeoning space power.
Deep differences remain on multiple important issues in Biden-Putin summit
GENEVA — U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin exchanged cordial words and plotted modest steps on arms control and diplomacy but emerged from their much-anticipated Swiss summit Wednesday largely where they started — with deep differences on human rights, cyberattacks, election interference and more.
Computer trouble hits Hubble Space Telescope, science halted
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Hubble Space Telescope has been hit with computer trouble, with all astronomical viewing halted, NASA said Wednesday.
