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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...
Your Views for May 18
Your Views Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amRestrict 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
Their Views Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amEven 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
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...
$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...
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...
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...
