Kauaʿi police find missing woman
ANAHOLA — The Kaua‘i Police Department has found a missing California woman.
Omicron drives US deaths higher than in fall’s delta wave
Omicron, the highly contagious coronavirus variant sweeping across the country, is driving the daily American death toll higher than during last fall’s delta wave, with deaths likely to keep rising for days or even weeks.
After huge pandemic losses, governments see rapid rebound
State and local governments lost at least $117 billion of expected revenue early in the pandemic, according to an Associated Press analysis, but many are now awash in record amounts of money, boosted partly by federal aid.
Defense: 3 officers at Floyd killing not trained adequately
ST. PAUL, Minn. — An attorney for one of the three former Minneapolis police officers on trial for allegedly violating George Floyd’s civil rights suggested Friday that the department’s training is inadequate when it comes to intervening when a colleague is using excessive force and that new recruits are told to obey their senior officers.
Jan. 6 committee subpoenas fake Trump electors in 7 states
WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection subpoenaed more than a dozen individuals Friday who it says falsely tried to declare Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 election in seven swing states.
Supreme Court pick holds import for Black women in the law
DURHAM, N.C. — When Markicia Horton graduates this spring from the Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston and takes the bar, she’ll be stepping into a world where a Black woman is set to be on the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time in its 232-year history.
Austin says Putin now has full range of options in Ukraine
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Friday the buildup of Russian forces along Ukraine’s border has reached the point where President Vladimir Putin now has a complete range of military options, including actions short of a full-scale invasion.
US Consulate warns Los Cabos hospital preys on Americans
MEXICO CITY — The U.S. government is warning Americans to avoid a hospital at a Mexican beach destination, following years of complaints that the facility preyed on Americans by overcharging, bullying them and refusing to release medical records.
Chinese soft power in Iraq: Speak the language, get jobs
IRBIL, Iraq — In a classroom in northern Iraq, Zhiwei Hu presides over his students as a conductor would an orchestra. He cues with a question, and the response from his students resounds in perfect, fluent Chinese.
Ottawa police get reinforcements as anti-vax convoy arrives
OTTAWA, Ontario — Police in Canada’s capital have called in reinforcements as a planned anti-vaccine mandate protest began to swell in numbers.
Chinese travel for Lunar New Year despite plea to stay put
BEIJING — Chinese are traveling to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year, the country’s biggest family holiday, despite a government plea to stay where they are as Beijing tries to contain coronavirus outbreaks.
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Young humpback whale freed from mooring line, buoy off Maui
HONOLULU — Federal officials say a yearling humpback whale off Hawaii has been freed from a life-threatening entanglement in mooring gear.
Naka‘ahiki-Young key to Raiders’ win
LIHU‘E — Hema Naka‘ahiki-Young scored a game-high 22 points, Wednesday during the Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation girls basketball game contested at the Kaua‘i High School gym.
Kaua‘i girls, Kapa‘a win at soccer Wednesday
LIHU‘E — A pair of long-distance goals from Kaua‘i High School team captain Adrianna Hernandez set the pace for the Kaua‘i High School girls’ 5-1 win over the Island School girls, Wednesday afternoon during the Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation soccer match at the Island School field.
COVID test giveaways continue, 222 new cases Thursday
KAPA‘A — The county anticipated a large turnout for its distribution of at-home COVID-19 tests in Kapa‘a, and that anticipation was right.
KFD fights Wailua fire Wednesday, Thursday
WAILUA — A structure fire in Wailua displaced one resident on Kihei Road Wednesday evening, according to officials.
State boasts species return in Plant Extinction Prevent Program
HONOLULU — Hawai’i has less than 1% of the overall landmass in the U.S., but is often referred to as the “Endangered Species Capital of the World” as the state has 44% of the nation’s endangered and threatened plant species.
EPA fines Koloa real-estate company, citing illegal cesspool
KOLOA — The federal Environmental Protection Agency has fined real estate firm Hale Kaua‘i $40,000, after finding a large-capacity cesspool at the company’s Waikomo Road property, which operates as Hardware Hawai‘i.
Coffee leaf rust management ‘a learning process’
LIHU‘E — Coffee leaf rust, avocado lace bugs and beetles with a potential connection to rapid o‘hia death were among topics under the microscope Wednesday, during an online conference dedicated to Hawai‘i’s invasive pests.