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Oversize-truck permits rely on drivers to check height clearances
Nation & World News Comments Updated: May 25, 2013 12:05amA few minutes online and $10 are all it takes to get a permit to drive an oversize truck across Washington state.
Drivers obtain more than 130,000 of the permits every year, many of them...
A gift leads to grieving after boy fights for iPad
Nation & World News Comments Updated: May 25, 2013 12:05amLAS VEGAS — He was just a kid from the neighborhood who never had much. Mature for his age, the eldest of 11 children, Marcos Arenas always knew his blue-collar father was just scraping by.
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Parker School class of 2013 graduation
Local News Comments Updated: May 25, 2013 12:05amParker School Graduate Kanoe Schutte is covered in lei after Friday’s Commencement Ceremony at Kahilu Theatre in Waimea. (Laura Shimabuku/Special to West Hawaii Today)
Hulali Covington right...
Hawaii Preparatory Academy class of 2013
Local News Comments Updated: May 25, 2013 12:05amHawaii Preparatory Academy graduate Juan Yarawamai is covered with lei following commencement exercises on Friday. (Anna Pacheco/Special to West Hawaii Today)
Samuel Tuhy hugs Headmaster...
N. Korean envoy delivers letter to China’s president
Nation & World News Comments Updated: May 25, 2013 12:05amBEIJING — A top North Korean envoy has delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament...
Obama’s latest attempt to close Gitmo revives difficult political fight
Nation & World News Comments Updated: May 25, 2013 12:05amWASHINGTON — At the beginning of his first term, President Barack Obama, surrounded by former generals and admirals, announced his intention to close the military detention facility at Guantanamo...
Lassoing Paniolo Drive
Local News Comments Updated: May 25, 2013 12:05amA state appellate court ruling this week that a Waikoloa developer can’t be required to extend Paniolo Drive doesn’t mean that developer won’t be building the road, a county housing official said...
Soward’s work chosen for London show
Local Features Comments Updated: May 24, 2013 9:31am“Medicine,” one of Keaau artist Sarah Soward’s paintings from her Rhinotopia series, has been accepted into the Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 exhibition June 4 to 8 at the Mall Galleries in...
Neighbor island economies catching up
Local News Comments Updated: May 24, 2013 2:00amHILO — Hawaii Island and the other neighbor islands are catching up steadily to the economic recovery first experienced on Oahu, according to a 42-page report released today by the University of...
