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Question: I think it’s fair to say that in Hawaii we eat more than our share of Spam, corned beef and Vienna sausage. With all the news lately about processed meat and colon cancer, does Hawaii have a higher occurrence of this cancer than the rest of the United States?

A new Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Bill for federal fiscal year 2016 won approval in the U.S. Senate Tuesday, and includes $444 million for military construction projects in Hawaii.

Federal Judge Susan Oki Mollway has rejected a bid by telecommunications entrepreneur Al Hee to have his seven federal tax convictions vacated, and has also rejected Hee’s request for a new trial.

One in 10 of Hawaii’s residents are veterans — the highest ratio in the nation, state adjutant Maj. Gen. Arthur “Joe” Logan said at Wednesday’s Veterans Day ceremony at the Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery in Kaneohe.

City Council Chairman Ernie Martin said he’s tired of being told that the $6.57 billion rail project cannot be changed because the city is being “held hostage” by the conditions of a $1.55 billion federal grant.

This year’s Hawai‘i Food & Wine Festival, a two-week culinary gala in September, benefited 16 organizations with a total of $350,000. Checks were presented Tuesday at Neiman Marcus’ Mariposa Restaurant.

Here's what's open and closed on Veterans Day.

Joyce Ah Moe Kainoa, whose back-to-the-land lifestyle was featured in a story in National Geographic magazine and in a Hawaii television documentary in the 1980s, died Nov. 1 at the Queen’s Medical Center. She was 69.

The state will seek criminal charges against an Oahu Community Correctional Center inmate who allegedly stabbed another inmate Monday, even though the victim did not want charges filed, a Department of Public Safety spokeswoman said.

The Clark County coroner’s office ruled Tuesday that a former Hawaii woman, 24-year-old Chelsea Patricia Ake-Salvacion, died from asphyxia caused by low oxygen levels in a cryotherapy chamber and that her death was an accident.