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The city has agreed to pay $5,000 to a man who says two Honolulu police officers roughed him up then told him they wouldn’t charge him if he refused medical treatment.

The attorney general’s office on Monday charged a 55-year-old Nuuanu man with attempted murder for allegedly trying to run down a 39-year-old homeless man with his car.

The senior enlisted sailor on the Pearl Harbor destroyer USS Michael Murphy was relieved of his duties in the wake of ship-based equal opportunity complaints, the Navy said today.

Volcano resident Marta Caproni and her boyfriend were walking Romeo and Tommy, two of her family’s four Labrador retriever littermates, Saturday afternoon when Romeo ran off and mysteriously disappeared for the night.

The city would be required to maintain vegetation along roads whose ownership is in dispute under a bill before the Honolulu City Council.

The heat and humidity in the Charles C. Spalding Clubhouse gym in McCully on Monday was oppressive but not nearly enough to wilt the determined smiles of Los Angeles Lakers players Jordan Clarkson and Julius Randle as they gripped, grinned and shaka’d their way through a meeting with some 200 young members of the Boys & Girls Club of Hawaii.

Work began Monday on chipping through the roughly 10-foot-thick layer of lava 500 feet long that overran Cemetery Road last October in Pahoa, Hawaii island.

Some people living in tents and tarps around the Hawaii Children’s Discovery Center said Monday they have no idea where they’ll go when city crews move in this week to clean out the last and densest portion of the Kakaako homeless encampment.

Obamacare is getting pricier for Hawaii residents.

The state approved a 27.3 percent rate hike for Hawaii Medical Service Association’s individual members and a 34.4 percent increase for Kaiser Permanente members in Affordable Care Act plans for 2016.

Tropical Storm Oho intensified and is expected to reach its peak strength, with about 70 mph winds, as it passes several hundred miles southeast and east of Hawaii island today.