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Teens kill endangered birds, setting back conservation efforts ten years
The first of the bodies was discovered by a hiker who snapped a photo of the suspicious scene with his cellphone. Buried in a nest on the westernmost spit of the Hawaiian island of Oahu was a dead bird the size of a human child… By Brittany Lyte.
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Hawaiian soldier charged with trying to provide documents, training to ISIS
An Army sergeant has been arrested in Hawaii and charged with seeking to provide classified military documents and training to ISIS, according to court records unsealed Monday. Sgt. Ikaika Erik Kang, 34, an air traffic control operator with the 25th Infantry Division at U.S. Army Pacific Command, was taken into custody Saturday by an FBI SWAT team after having been under surveillance for almost a year, according to the records, which were unsealed in U.S. District Court in Honolulu.
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10-year-old lobbies Congress in fight for National Parks
A 10-year-old Hawaiian boy is on a quest to protect our National Monuments, and he flew to Washington DC this week to meet with members of Congress and a member of the Trump Administration.
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Spam heists in Hawaii prompt retailers to put the wildly popular 'mystery meat' in locked cases
Last month in the Pearl City community on Oahu, Safeway customer Arlene Sua watched as a man suddenly grabbed eight cases of Spam and head for the door. She thought "'OK, this isn't real. No, he's not going to take it, no, no," she told KHON TV. But it was real. The man took off with the Spam and disappeared.
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Half of Hawaii's coral reefs were damaged in one year, and the worst is yet to come
Unprecedented amounts of coral reef bleaching destroyed the coasts of Hawaii, and it will probably keep getting worse.
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Hawaii reinstates 'attack warning' siren to prepare for possible North Korean missile
Ted Tsukiyama still recalls how quickly life changed when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. “It was quite traumatic and totally unexpected,” said the 96-year-old World War II veteran, who was a student at the University of Hawaii at the time. “That morning the radio called for all University ROTC [Reserved Officers’ Training Corps] to report to the university armory. We were issued rifles to help guard the city and our regiment was converted into the Hawaii Territorial Guard.”
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Climate change threatens Hawaiian fishponds, study suggests
Climate change poses a looming threat to Hawaiian fishponds, which have undergone a renaissance in recent years, University of Hawaii researchers have concluded. The study was conducted from 2004 to 2016 at Heeia Fishpond by scientists with the UH School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology and the fishpond stewards Paepae o He‘eia.
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Hawaii officials say 'false alarm' on alert about inbound ballistic missile
Hawaii officials on Saturday announced that an alert saying a missile was headed for the state was a false alarm after people received a mobile alert detailing an imminent threat.
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"Ballistic missile threat" warning in Hawaii a false alarm
Hawaiians were thrown into a panic Saturday morning after an emergency alert was mistakenly sent, warning them to "seek immediate shelter" from a ballistic missile threat, and it took emergency officials 38 minutes to send a new alert to mobile phones that the threat was a false alarm.
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Pearl Harbor visitors were watching video on Dec. 7 attack when false alarm dinged on their phones
It was a little too close to home when dozens of visitors to the USS Arizona Memorial gathered in the site’s theater to watch an introductory video documenting the terrifying moments when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. That’s when the alert of a missile threat in Hawaii sounded on their phones, sending waves of fear, confusion and panic through the room – eerily similar to that moment the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor 76 years ago.
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FCC: Person who sent false Hawaii missile alert refusing to cooperate
The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency employee who mistakenly sent out a mobile alert warning of an incoming ballistic missile is refusing to cooperate with the Federal Communications Commission investigation, an FCC official said Thursday on Capitol Hill.
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Warrant issued for Hawaii prof after he refuses to speak English
A bench warrant was issued for the arrest of a University of Hawaii professor on Wednesday.
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Hawaii fires employee who sent false missile alert
The administrator of Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency has resigned and an officer with a track record of "poor performance" has been fired after triggering mass panic with a false ballistic missile alert, officials said Tuesday. The Pacific archipelago, already on edge over the threat posed by North Korea, was terrorized by the erroneous alert, which was sent out by phone to residents and tourists and remained uncorrected for nearly 40 minutes.
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Lawmakers have an idea for keeping homeless in shelters: Pay them to stay
Hawaii has the nation's highest rate of homeless per capita — and more than half of the homeless live on the streets. To try to address that problem, legislators have a unique solution: Paying the homeless to live in shelters. House Bill 2649 moved forward Friday with amendments after committee review. If passed, chronically homeless individuals in the 96817 area (roughly, Urban Honolulu) would be paid a $12 stipend for every night they stay in a homeless shelter.
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Hawaii introduces bills targeting loot boxes setting age requirement and odds
Hawaii is leading the way in addressing the problem of loot boxes thanks to Chris Lee and multiple bills have been proposed. The bills tackle the problem on multiple fronts. First of all, they propose prohibiting the sale of a game to anyone under the age of 21 where there are randomised loot boxes that require payment. All games with loot boxes would also have to be labeled to show they included microtransactions and the odds of the rewards would also have to be disclosed.
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Hawai‘i’s Last Outlaw Hippies
Hawaii’s outlaw hippies are more Lost Boys than a signpost to a future post-consumer society. By Brendan Borrell.
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Hawaii: Where Evolution Can Be Surprisingly Predictable
On each Hawaiian island, stick spiders have evolved into the same basic forms—gold, white, and dark. It’s a stunning example of how predictable evolution can be.
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Bill to protect sharks, rays moves to House
A bill that would protect sharks and expand protections to all rays within state waters is cruising through the state Legislature. Senate Bill 2079, co-introduced by Democratic Sens. Mike Gabbard of Oahu and Russell Ruderman of Puna and four co-sponsors, seeks to protect the animals for ecological purposes and their value to Native Hawaiian cultural practices and the ocean recreation industry.
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Man stuck between walls says he thought he wasn't going to make it
Tens of thousands of people were transfixed Friday afternoon when a man got himself wedged between two walls near Ala Moana for more than three hours until firefighters came to his rescue. Michael Anthony Maggiacomo spoke to KHON2 and tells us he's grateful to the firefighters who got him out safely. Many in the area know him as Baseball Mike. He tells us he likes to play catch on top of the Heald College Plaza.
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Edison and the King: How Hawaii Became Electrified
In 1881, Thomas Edison convinced King Kalakaua that electric streetlamps were superior to gas
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