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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...

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....

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...

$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...

FBI searches apartment in ricin letter case

Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06am

FBI searches apartment in ricin letter case

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery...

<p>Associated Press</p><p>Jeff Lauderdale sorts pine lumber at the Rough & Ready Lumber Co. mill in O’Brien, Ore. The mill is closing as timber towns continue to look for a new economic future 20 years after environmental constraints forced steep cutbacks in national forest logging.</p>

Timber country ponders a future with fewer logs

Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06am

By JEFF BARNARD

Associated Press

O’BRIEN, Ore. — Jennifer Phillippi’s grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a...

Last-minute fortune seekers buy Powerball tickets

Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06am

Last-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...