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Your Views for May 18

Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06am

Restrict GMOs

I remember my grandma in Honolulu lovingly holding a Kapoho papaya. I live on Hawaii Island now, and find it difficult to find that beautiful, large, old-style papaya. A 67...

Fire, prosecute IRS agents

Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06am

Even by the awful standards of Washington, where hubris and vindictiveness are standard operating procedure, the arrogance and malfeasance uncovered at the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S....

Your Views for May 19

Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06am

Fake surplus

Gov. Abercrombie’s $300 million budget surplus is a fake “paper” surplus. The reality is that the state has a massive deficit of at least $483 million! The state’s Employee...

Not such strange bedfellows after all

Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06am

WASHINGTON — Breaking news: Conservative organizations suddenly have found common cause with one of their favorite objects of contempt — the benighted Mainstream Media.

Or as the tea party...

$1 million in jewelry stolen near Cannes film fest

Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06am

Jewelry 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...

<p>Associated Press</p><p>A sign cautions visitors outside a “pump and treat” facility on the Marine base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., on Wednesday. The installation is the site of one of the worst drinking water contaminations in U.S. history.</p>

Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply

Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06am

By ALLEN G. BREED

Associated Press

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities...

Corrections officers graduate from training

Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06am

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s Department of Public Safety now has 27 new corrections officers.

The recruits graduated Friday in a ceremony at Waikiki’s Hale Koa Hotel.

Department...

Assad warns US not to interfere in Syria struggle

Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06am

By 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...

Up to 60 injured after car drives into parade

Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06am

By DEBRA McCOWN

Associated Press

DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) — About 50 to 60 people were injured Saturday when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of...

Police call fatal NYC shooting a hate crime

Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06am

Police call fatal NYC shooting a hate crime

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say the gunman who killed a gay man on a Manhattan street in an apparent hate crime has a previous arrest for attempted...