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Melody Lewellen remembers the call vividly almost a decade later. A woman was screaming about someone trying to break into her Young Street home.

Question: There is an extremely large house being built at the entrance to Lanikai. It certainly looks to be way out of scale to other houses in the neighborhood.

Ten years after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banned cesspools serving 20 or more people the agency estimates that there are still about 1,400 of the raw-sewage pits in use throughout the state.

Two-thirds of a nearly $15 million federal grant awarded to Hawaii to fund public pre-kindergarten classrooms at charter schools has been slashed from spending bills in Congress.

Live Christmas trees will be allowed in hotel lobbies, larger restaurants and other assembly areas this holiday season, provided those settings have sprinklers in place, under a compromise proposal reached among businesses, the Honolulu Fire Department and the Honolulu City Council.

After learning Norm Chow was fired as the University of Hawaii football team's head coach, defensive coordinator Tom Mason summed his feelings in one word: "Damn."

Chris Naeole hopes to fix in four weeks the ills of the University of Hawaii football team's past four years. "I know guys want to jump off the ship," said Naeole, who was named interim head coach following Norm Chow's firing on Sunday.

Under terms of his contract, Norm Chow is due $337,499.99 for being relieved as the University of Hawaii's head football coach before the conclusion of his five-year contract.

Mounting losses and dwindling attendance added up to Norm Chow's dismissal as head coach of the University of Hawaii football team. Chow, 69, was "relieved of his duties" after four losing seasons, athletic director David Matlin announced Sunday.

For me, beach walking is often as rewarding as snorkeling. Sure, marine animals lying on beaches are dead or dying, but that means I can pick them up or turn them over and admire to my heart's content.