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Your Views for May 19
Your Views Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amFake 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
Their Views Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amWASHINGTON — 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
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...
Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply
Nation Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amBy 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
Nation Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amHONOLULU (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
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...
Last-minute fortune seekers buy Powerball tickets
Nation Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amLast-minute fortune seekers buy Powerball tickets
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — It’s all about the odds.
With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is...
Up to 60 injured after car drives into parade
Nation Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amBy 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
Nation Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amPolice 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...
First lady to high school grads: Live your dreams
Nation Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amFirst lady to high school grads: Live your dreams
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: Strike your own path in college...
