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Hillary Rodham Clinton has secured the support of many Democratic Party leaders in Hawaii and U.S. Pacific island territories as she pursues her party’s nomination for president.

A 21-year-old Kalihi man was charged with assault after he allegedly attacked a taxicab driver in Nuuanu, causing the driver to crash, authorities said.

The state Department of Health has restored the food establishment permit and given a green placard to Makittii Hawaii.

A woman told a state jury Friday that she is the reason her fiance, Dale Rodriguez Jr., is on trial for murder and the man she was cheating with is dead.

Firefighters are investigating the cause of a two-alarm fire that destroyed three vehicles and left hundreds without power in Kalihi on Friday.

Dengue fever cases on Hawaii island continue to climb as the Health Department confirmed four new cases Friday, including two more children for a total of six children infected with the mosquito-borne virus.

A graphic released by the Central Pacific Hurricane Center illustrates how lucky Hawaii has been so far in a record-breaking tropical cyclone season.

The state Department of Education is seeking a multiyear price hike to its after-school program that would increase the monthly rate families pay to $120 from $85 over three years, resulting in a more than 40 percent increase by 2018.

The head of the Federal Transit Administration said the agency would withhold the release of $250 million in grant money for the city’s $6.57 billion rail project unless it gets assurances that the City Council will pass an extension of the 0.5 percent surcharge on the general excise tax.

News of Friday’s violent tragedy in Paris hit more than a few folks pretty hard in Hawaii.

“I’m totally devastated,” said Kilohana Silve, a former 30-year Paris resident who, from afar, still leads a hula halau there that she started 20 years ago.