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In Brief | Nation & World

Updated: May 21, 2013 12:05am

Magic try to follow Howard trade with lottery luck

NEW YORK — Pat Williams is pretty good at being lucky, and he’s got a hunch.

“I got a funny feeling that this could be another Magic...

China-N. Korea tensions rise over boat held hostage

Updated: May 21, 2013 12:05am

BEIJING — A Chinese fishing boat has been seized by armed North Koreans who are demanding a ransom of nearly $100,000 for the release of the ship and 16 Chinese crew members.

The Chinese...

Police arrest 29 for DUI

Updated: May 21, 2013 12:05am

Police arrested 29 motorists between May 13 and Sunday for drunken driving. Ten of the drivers were involved in traffic crashes. Four were under the age of 21.

So far this year, there have...

Grand jury indicts 2 in separate molestation cases

Updated: May 21, 2013 12:05am

A Kona grand jury returned indictments last week against two men in separate child molestation cases.

A four-count indictment charges 31-year-old Dustin J. Jose of Kealakekua with first-...

World briefly 5/21

Updated: May 21, 2013 12:05am

Officials: Obama wasn’t told of IRS probe

WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the...

Scoreboard May 21, 2013

Updated: May 21, 2013 12:05am

TODAY’S TV SCHEDULE

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

1 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore or Tampa Bay at Toronto MLB

4 p.m. Seattle at L.A. Angels FOXSP

NBA BASKETBALL

2:30 p.m....

Public pension employees skip Hawaii conference

Updated: May 21, 2013 12:05am

HONOLULU — Organizers of an annual conference for people who manage more than $3 trillion in public sector pension funds in the U.S. and Canada say a significant number of administrators are...

Island Life 5-21-13

Updated: May 21, 2013 5:37am

<p>Paul-Devin Cadiente under a mountain of leis from family & friends after Kohala HS commencement Saturday evening. - Brad Ballesteros | West Hawaii Today</p>

Graduation Day

Updated: May 20, 2013 9:31am

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<p>Dave Schaefer, a volunteer, helps install blinds on Monday at the new American Cancer Society’s Resource Center Wig Closet in Tiana’s Avon & Wigs on Luhia Street in Kailua-Kona. (Laura Shimabuku/Special to West Hawaii Today)</p>

Center offers new hair, outlook to cancer patients

Updated: May 20, 2013 9:07pm

When 44-year-old Waimea resident Rose Bateman discovered a lump in her breast, this self-described “happy-go-lucky person” wasn’t worried. She dealt with the situation in a very matter-of-fact way...