Man guilty of manslaughter addresses victim’s family
A 21-year-old Kailua-Kona man who pleaded no contest to manslaughter in August for a 2022 traffic crash that killed a 63-year-old woman told a judge Monday he has “a heavy heart, fully aware of the gravity” of his actions.
A grim Trump and an upbeat Harris end the race hitting opposite notes
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris closed out their campaigns Monday in starkly different moods: The former president, appearing drained at arenas that were not filled, claimed that the country was on the brink of ruin, while the vice president promised a more united future as energized supporters chanted alongside her, “We’re not going back.”
Harris and Trump battle to the wire in swing states, Times/Siena polls find
The presidential race appears to be hurtling toward a photo finish, with the final set of polls by The New York Times and Siena College finding Vice President Kamala Harris showing new strength in North Carolina and Georgia as former President Donald Trump erases her lead in Pennsylvania and maintains his advantage in Arizona.
Coast Guard members, civilians honored for Lahaina heroism
A vivid Trump-Harris contrast in campaign’s grueling final days
It was the final Sunday of the campaign for president, and Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were continuing to race across battleground states in their search for support. But in message and demeanor, Harris, the Democrat, and Trump, the Republican, could not have been more different.
Weary, troubled and nervous: Americans flood the early vote
An anxious America, weary from a vitriolic campaign season and worried about the state of the nation’s democracy, is voting with determination, with roughly 75 million people having cast ballots in the early voting period.
Hotel occupancy dips below 70% for first time since January 2022
Big Island voters will help decide county, state and federal contests
The General Election will be held Tuesday, and Big Island voters will have the opportunity to choose Hawaii County’s next mayor, along with state senators and representatives, County Council members, and of course the U.S. president.
Trump and Harris offer night-and-day views of the economy
ATLANTA — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump swept through Southern battleground states Saturday, outlining sharply divergent economic messages for voters in areas where the presidential race remains in a dead heat.
1 in 4 child deaths after ER visits are preventable, study finds
The morning after Phyllis Rabinowitz brought her newborn daughter home from the hospital, she knew something was terribly wrong. The baby, Rebecca, had thick mucus, trouble breathing and lethargy unlike anything Rabinowitz had seen in her first child.
Xenophobia and hate speech are spiking heading into the election
The last time there was a presidential election, the country was coming off a summer of protests in favor of greater racial equality. Support for increased immigration was at the highest level ever polled.
They’re giving scammers all their money. The kids can’t stop them
When Chris Mancinelli walked into his father’s home for the first time after the 79-year-old man died last summer, he stopped to look at family photos displayed on the refrigerator door. Near a crayon drawing spelling out “grandpa” in rainbow colors were photos of his father’s three granddaughters at a swimming pool.
In election’s final days, dark money and ‘gray money’ fund ‘dirty tricks’
The campaign literature that landed in Republican mailboxes in North Carolina this week was jarring. On one side was a sonogram image of a human fetus, with this message: “Her heart is beating. We all know it. Only the courageous few will protect her.” On the other side was a call to action: “You have the courage and the conviction to vote for Randall Terry.”
Why we may not know the winner of the US presidential election on Nov. 5
The U.S. presidential election will take place on Nov. 5, but the winner of the razor-thin race between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump may not be known for days after the polls close.
Alaska’s first financial report since Hawaiian acquisition shows combined strengths
Visitor arrivals still recovering from the pandemic, Maui wildfires
Number of students at UH Hilo down 4% while most other UH campuses see gains
Although enrollment at nearly all of the campuses in the University of Hawaii system increased this fall semester compared to last year, UH Hilo is lagging behind.
US voters use trackers, cameras to deter political theft
WASHINGTON — Tired of her Kamala Harris signs disappearing from her Springfield, Missouri, front yard, Laura McCaskill taped a tracking device to one to see where it might end up.
Controversial do-over fills special seat on state water commission
In US swing states, officials brace for conspiracy theories and violence
DETROIT — With the U.S. election days just away, officials in the most competitive battleground states are bracing for misinformation, conspiracy theories, threats and possible violence.
