Former envoy defies Trump, testifies he pushed to oust her

WASHINGTON — Testifying in defiance of President Donald Trump’s ban, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House impeachment investigators Friday that Trump himself pressured the State Department to oust her from her post and get her out of the country.

Get your flu shot

Our iPhones, social media and laptops give us a sense of connection, but there’s nothing like an infectious disease such as the flu to understand what “going viral” really means.

Trump fell in love with Kim Jong Un — and North Korea kept building missiles

During the past two years, President Donald Trump gambled that a fundamentally new approach to North Korea’s nuclear and missile threat would succeed where his three predecessors failed. Strong military threats and increased sanctions were followed by proactive diplomacy, including three summit meetings, in the hope that this new approach would deliver Pyongyang’s agreement to give up its burgeoning nuclear arsenal.

Can you help identify this photo?

The Tribune-Herald each Saturday is publishing a photo from the Lyman Museum’s John Howard Pierce Photography Collection. The Kona Historical Society generously donated the collection in 2007. The museum is seeking help identifying the people and places in the pictures, most of which are from the 1960s and ’70s. Those with information about the subjects in the photos can contact the museum at 935-5021 or archives@lymanmuseum.org. See identified photographs on Facebook at tinyurl.com/piercephotoid. THIS PHOTO (NO. 17086) was captured July 30, 1962.

Army rescues man from mountain

KAILUA-KONA — A mix of light snow and rain was falling Thursday evening high on the slopes of Maunakea when a U.S. Army helicopter spotted a lost and cold mountain biker as daylight faded.

Army helicopter rescues mountain biker on Maunakea

A 53-year-old visitor from Europe who rode a mountain bike from Holualoa to Maunakea was rescued from the 12,000-foot level of the the northeast side of the mountain late Thursday afternoon or early Thursday evening by an Army Black Hawk helicopter.