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Mililani’s Christian and Angela Lee prepare for this weekend’s bout in Japan.

Hawaii safety Kalen Hicks and defensive lineman Pumba Williams tackled Arizona quarterback Khalil Tate a yard short of the end zone to preserve Hawaii’s season-opening, 45-38 victory before 20,572 fans on Saturday night at Aloha Stadium. Video by Brian McInnis

Police said a husband and wife died in a murder-suicide today in Kalihi.

Police responded to a man who holed up in a home on Komo Mai Drive in Pearl City today.

“Hawaii Five-0” and “Magnum P.I.,” fans gathered in Waikiki today for a Sunset on the Beach screening at Queen’s Surf Beach.

Michael Gibbs has been charged with attempted murder and assault.

About 30 protesters who had been sitting in the road blocking construction vehicles and police from entering Waimanalo Bay Beach Park have been arrested.

Law enforcement officials gathered at the base of Mauna Kea Access Road today to begin tearing down an illegal wooden structure erected near the Mauna Kea camp.

Police have opened a homicide investigation after a man was found early Saturday, Aug. 17 with stab wounds in downtown Honolulu.

An armed and wounded man with a long criminal history barricaded himself in his ex-girlfriend’s Pacific Palisades house Thursday morning in a standoff with police that continued late into the night.

Hundreds of vehicles began leaving Maunalua Bay in Hawaii Kai at 9 a.m. Sept. 8, with people shouting “ku kia’i mauna” as they headed toward Maili. An hour later, dozens of vehicles — many outfitted with Hawaii flags — were still pulling out of packed parking lots in East Honolulu. Read more about the mobile protest at staradvertiser.com.

A 62-year-old female driver has died after driving her Mercedes into the lagoon this afternoon in Hawaii Kai, police said. At about 12:12 p.m. today, the woman was traveling southbound on Opoi Street at Mariner’s Cove, when for unknown reasons, she failed to stop and ended up in the lagoon at Niumalu Loop. Emergency Medical Services treated and transported her to the hospital in critical condition. Police say the woman later succumbed to her injuries, and died. Video by Craig T. Kojima

Kapono Miranda made his initial court appearance on Wednesday. He's accused of fatally shooting Alan Jennings in the parking lot fronting Lucky Strike Honolulu early Sunday.

After 50 years at 885 Queen St., the mom-and-pop grocery H. Hamada Store closed for good in 2007. The grocery store was reinvented earlier this month as a plate lunch and catering restaurant in the same location. Visit staradvertiser.com for more Hawaii news. Star-Advertiser video by Diane S. W. Lee

A new Coast Guard cutter headed for its homeport in Honolulu has already made two drug busts, seizing nearly $90 million in cocaine.

A house fire broke out on Kinau Street shortly after 4 p.m. Tuesday.

A 21-year-old man who was drift racing when he crashed into a bicyclist on Tantalus Drive is going to jail for one year.

Thousands of opponents of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope atop Hawaii island’s Mauna Kea marched through Waikiki Saturday afternoon for this year’s Aloha Aina Unity March. Tourists, hotel workers and Hawaii residents filled the sidewalks of Kalakaua Avenue, which was closed for several hours for the event, looking on as waves of marchers in red and yellow Mauna Kea-inspired T-shirts walked down the thoroughfare through the heart of the state’s tourism epicenter. Hundreds waved Hawaii flags. March organizers estimated that at least 20,000 people walked the two-mile route from Ala Moana Beach Park to Kapiolani Park. Video by Cindy Ellen Russell

Passengers on a Hawaiian Airlines flight had to evacuate the plane from emergency slides Thursday, Aug. 22 after it landed in Honolulu due to reports of smoke in the cargo hold.

Suicide survivor Denise Geelhart recently returned to The Queen's Medical Center to thank the doctors and nurses who treated her 23 years ago.

The fire was on Lanikuhana Avenue.

Firefighters respond to large house fire in Aiea.

State officials announced Thursday that they are working to stop an invasion of black-chin tilapia in the near-shore waters of the Napali Coast State Wilderness Park on Kauai. Video courtesy Hawaii Dept. of Land and Natural Resources

The Los Angeles Rams practiced Friday at the University of Hawaii ahead of their exhibition game against the Dallas Cowboys on Saturday. It will be the first NFL exhibition game in Hawaii since 1976. Video by Brian McInnis

Windward Oahu residents welcomed the Sunday 1 p.m. opening of Pali Highway in both directions for the first time since a February rockslide closed the popular road. The Pali is now open in both directions from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sundays through Fridays. The highway will remain closed on Saturdays through early November to allow further repairs to be completed. Video by Bruce Asato