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Police on lookout for robbery suspect • Man who set fire to truck still on the loose

Old tires collect water and give mosquitoes a breeding ground, which Hawaii County is trying to reduce amid a dengue fever outbreak by offering free recycling.

My two weeks of snorkeling in Palau are nearly over, and even though my husband, Craig, isn’t here, I can hear him ask the question he asks at the end of every adventure: What was your favorite part of the trip?

Question: Is there a state agency that’s responsible for noise issues? My parents live behind a restaurant that has an exhaust fan that is making a lot of noise. It’s running about 12 hours a day, so it’s very annoying to my parents and my brother.

Freshly cut Christmas trees will once again be legal in hotel lobbies, larger restaurants and other assembly areas this holiday season, provided they have sprinklers in place, under new rules signed into law by Mayor Kirk Caldwell on Thursday.

University of Hawaii researchers who examined some of Earth’s most primitive rocks have found that they contain droplets of water — evidence that water was part of the planet’s formation.

Despite the failure of a rail-guided rocket launch on Kauai with a $1.3 million University of Hawaii satellite aboard, officials say there could be more space launches, but the Air Force won’t be paying for them.

Hawaii’s public worker pension fund already has teams of lawyers pursuing lawsuits over investment losses where improper or fraudulent activities by publicly traded companies allegedly reduced the fund’s earnings, and the $14 billion retirement fund is ramping up to pursue possible new legal claims.

The Pentagon agency that recovers missing American war dead said it plans to more than double this fiscal year the number of identifications it made last year — possibly fulfilling for the first time a mandate previously set by Congress.

Hawaii received a grade of “C” on the latest March of Dimes Premature Birth Report Card. With the state falling short of an above-average grade for the past several years, Lin Joseph, director of program services for the March of Dimes Hawaii chapter, said, “We are disappointed that we didn’t see greater improvement.”