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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...
Official: Broken rail eyed in Conn. train crash
Nation Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amOfficial: Broken rail eyed in Conn. train crash
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Officials investigating a train collision in Connecticut have ruled out foul play and are studying a rail fracture...
FBI searches apartment in ricin letter case
Nation Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amFBI searches apartment in ricin letter case
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery...
Timber country ponders a future with fewer logs
Nation Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amBy 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...
Musician, bandleader Ollie Mitchell dies
Local News Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:07amBy JOHN BURNETT
Tribune-Herald staff writer
Ollie Mitchell, trumpeter, bandleader and a legendary studio musician, died May 11 at his Puako home. He was 86.
Founder and leader of...
Obituaries for May 19
Obituaries Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:07amPhilomina K. Eblacas, 87, of Oahu, formerly of Hilo and Kona, died May 11 on Oahu. Born in Kalaupapa, Moloka‘i, she was a housewife, musician, vocalist, practitioner of hula and traditional...
Big Island Democrats name Tarnas to lead party
Local News Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:07amBy NANCY COOK LAUER
Stephens Media
VOLCANO — Former state Rep. David Tarnas on Saturday took the helm of the Hawaii County Democratic Party, replacing Steve Pavao, who is stepping down...
Authorities: Hofstra student was killed by police
Nation Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amAuthorities: Hofstra student was killed by police
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer’s bullet killed a New York college student during the response to a home invasion at...
Hong: Yagong, Kawauchi claim too much attorney-client privilege
Local News Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:07amBy ERIN MILLER
Stephens Media
The attorney representing two county elections workers suing former county officials for defamation is asking a 3rd Circuit Court judge to require the...
Aloha spreads across cultures
Local News Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amBy JULIA O’MALLEY
Anchorage Daily News
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — This time of year across the country, gyms and auditoriums fill with robed students, “Class of 2013” balloons and the strains...
