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Hilo airport suffers power outage
Local News Comments Updated: May 20, 2013 12:05amThe Hilo International Airport lost power for about 90 minutes Sunday, causing headaches for weekend travelers.
Power was lost at 11:17 a.m., according to the airport’s security office, and...
What do we eat? New food map will tell us
Nation Comments Updated: May 20, 2013 12:05amBy MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought.
Same goes for soda.
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Nation roundup for May 20
Nation Comments Updated: May 20, 2013 12:05amOfficial: Va. driver likely had medical condition
DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) — Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered...
Mountain Thunder Coffee wins second gold medal
Local News Comments Updated: May 20, 2013 12:05amMountain Thunder Coffee Plantation won a gold medal May 1 at the prestigious Gold Bean Cupping Contest at SIAL, the global food marketplace, in Canada. Last year, Mountain Thunder won a national...
Hawaii Ecotourism Association honors its best
Local News Comments Updated: May 20, 2013 12:05amThree Hawaii tour guides and businesses and a Maui writer were recognized at the Hawaii Ecotourism Association’s annual awards luncheon for their commitment to sustainable travel practices and...
Odds and ends for May 20
Nation Comments Updated: May 20, 2013 12:05amFate of L.A. pot shops left to voters
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the...
Farmers Market plots future
Local News Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 8:42pmBy HUNTER BISHOP
Tribune-Herald Staff Writer
Ambitious plans to build a three-story commercial building on the site of the Hilo Farmers Market were shelved when the Great Recession put...
IRS probe ignored powerful groups
Nation Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amBy KEN THOMAS
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — There’s an irony in the Internal Revenue Service’s crackdown on conservative groups.
The nation’s tax agency has admitted to...
Assad warns US not to interfere in Syria struggle
World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amBy KARIN LAUB
Associated Press
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won’t step down before elections and that the United States has no right...
$1 million in jewelry stolen near Cannes film fest
World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amJewelry heist near Cannes film fest
PARIS (AP) — Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewelry, in a...
