Hawaii

Mom of 2 missing Idaho kids wants $5 million bail reduced

HONOLULU (AP) — A mother arrested in Hawaii over the disappearance of her two Idaho children wants a judge to reconsider...
23:55 25 February 2022

Case of missing children tied to doomsday beliefs, 3 deaths

HONOLULU (AP) — Family members used to describe Lori Vallow as an attentive mother who had her kids’ best interests at h...
3:23 22 February 2022

States step up funding for Planned Parenthood clinics

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Severalstates have begun picking up the tab for family planning services at clinics run by Planne...
10:57 21 February 2022

Mom of 2 missing kids found in Hawaii with new husband

BOISE, Idaho — Police say the mother of two missing kids has been found in Hawaii along with her new husband, but there's still no sign of the childre...
19:47 27 January 2022

Neighbor wanted Hawaii cop killing suspect evicted years ago

HONOLULU — A next door neighbor of a handyman accused of stabbing a woman and killing two Hawaii police officers before setting his home and neighborh...
22:26 21 January 2022

Suspect in Hawaii officers’ deaths described as unhinged

HONOLULU — A Hawaii handyman with a history of run-ins with police and neighbors faced eviction when he stabbed a woman and killed two officers before...
1:46 21 January 2022

Cameron Smith wins Sony Open in another Hawaii comeback

HONOLULU — Two weeks in Hawaii brought rain, unusually strong wind, playoffs and two players who thought victory was out of reach until the winner's l...
8:23 13 January 2022

New Hawaiian island, new course, same big wind for Sony Open

HONOLULU — Same state, new island, two courses that could not be more different.
23:47 8 January 2022

Justin Thomas grabs a win he thought he had lost

KAPALUA, Hawaii — Justin Thomas began the new year mildly disappointed by not having won more than he already has on the PGA Tour.
7:51 6 January 2022

Justin Thomas hangs on to win Kapalua in a playoff

KAPALUA, Hawaii — Justin Thomas won the Sentry Tournament of Champions, and he still doesn't know how.
5:23 6 January 2022

Schauffele holds onto a 1-shot lead at Kapalua

KAPALUA, Hawaii — Xander Schauffele finished stronger than everyone around him Saturday, and it was good enough to keep a one-shot lead going into the...
1:44 5 January 2022

Schauffele takes 1-shot lead at Kapalua in title defense

KAPALUA, Hawaii — The only thing that resembled paradise to Xander Schauffele at Kapalua was his name atop the leaderboard Friday at the Sentry Tourna...
3:53 4 January 2022

Justin Thomas has great start to career and wants more

KAPALUA, Hawaii — Justin Thomas is making his fifth straight start to a new year at Kapalua, a current streak matched only by Dustin Johnson and a rem...
22:17 1 January 2022

Schedule change a slight boost to some European Tour events

KAPALUA, Hawaii — The PGA Championship moving to May forced the hand of the European Tour, which smartly opted to move its flagship BMW PGA Championsh...
15:48 31 December 2022

Cliffs, jungle a big hurdle for feds in Hawaii copter crash

HONOLULU — The remote and rugged terrain on the Hawaiian island of Kauai where a sightseeing helicopter crashed, killing all seven people aboard, coul...
22:09 30 December 2022

Police: All 7 killed in Hawaii tour helicopter crash

HONOLULU — Tour helicopter operations in Hawaii have come under increased scrutiny after the deadly crash this week, one of several recent accidents i...
16:26 29 December 2022

Remains of 6 people found after Hawaii tour helicopter crash

HONOLULU — The remains of six people have been found after a helicopter on a tour of one of the most rugged and remote coastlines in Hawaii crashed at...
3:23 28 December 2022

Baba Ram Dass, spiritual guru and LSD proponent, dies at 88

HONOLULU — Baba Ram Dass, the 1960s counterculture spiritual leader who experimented with LSD and traveled to India to find enlightenment, returning t...
21:42 23 December 2021

Australia’s leader apologizes for vacation amid wildfires

SYDNEY — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologized Sunday for taking a family vacation in Hawaii as deadly bushfires raged across several st...
10:52 22 December 2021

American Samoa declares measles outbreak, closes schools

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa — The government of American Samoa declared that the U.S. territory has an outbreak of measles, a move that will lead to the...
1:10 8 December 2021

Ceremony to remember those killed in Pearl Harbor attack

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — More than 2,000 people are expected at a ceremony Saturday to remember those killed when Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor 78...
16:47 7 December 2021

Navy vet’s ashes destined for sunken Pearl Harbor battleship

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — On Dec. 7, 1941, then-21-year-old Lauren Bruner was the second-to-last man to escape the burning wreckage of the USS Arizona af...
17:50 6 December 2021

Michigan State helping Winston through grieving process

LAHAINA, Hawaii — Cassius Winston’s voice, already measured and low-key, has been tinged with melancholy these past weeks. A glint of sadness has been...
7:10 29 November 2021

Utah hearing for Hawaii suspect in extreme cyberstalking

HONOLULU — A man arrested in Hawaii will be sent to Utah, where he’s accused of tormenting a family for more than year by sending more than 500 people...
1:58 28 November 2021

No. 4 Kansas beats Dayton 90-84 in overtime for Maui title

LAHAINA, Hawaii — Devon Dotson scored 31 points, Udoka Azubuike had seven of his 29 in overtime and No. 4 Kansas outlasted Dayton 90-84 to win its thi...
0:43 28 November 2021

Man wanted in Utah ‘extreme stalking’ arrested in Hawaii

SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. prosecutors have arrested a Hawaii man they accuse of sending hundreds of unwanted service providers and others to a Utah home, ...
0:12 27 November 2021

Maui Invitational and Battle 4 Atlantis headline week

Michigan State and Kansas missed each other in the season-opening Champions Classic.
7:24 26 November 2021

Virginia Tech knocks off No. 3 Michigan State 71-66 in Maui

LAHAINA, Hawaii — Landers Nolley II hit a big 3-pointer in the final minute and scored 22 points, helping Virginia Tech hold off No. 3 Michigan State ...
0:26 26 November 2021

Police: $1M in diamonds taken during Maui Halloween heist

LAHAINA, Hawaii — An insurance company is offering a $50,000 reward to help find a masked man in a full-length black gown who stole more than $1 milli...
2:26 23 November 2021

3rd-party bid? Gabbard’s denials don’t ease Democrats’ fears

Tulsi Gabbard keeps making her fellow Democrats nervous.
5:09 7 November 2021