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Ninety-year-old Blanche Keahi leaned toward Hayden Orchard and smiled for a selfie. “Aw, I didn’t have my hair done!” she said when she saw the result on Hayden’s phone. The two laughed and took another picture.

Staff Sgt. Joseph McKenzie was less than an inch away from possible death four years ago on a ridgetop in eastern Afghanistan.

University of Hawaii-Manoa Chancellor Robert Bley-Vroman told lawmakers Tuesday he stands by his decision to fire men’s basketball coach Gib Arnold without cause a year ago, a decision that resulted in a settlement expected to ultimately cost the university and taxpayers more than $1 million.

More than 250 Oahu residents gathered Tuesday night at the McKinley High School auditorium to voice their opinions on the proposed purchase of Hawaiian Electric Industries by Florida-based NextEra Energy Inc.

Academic gains Hawaii public school students saw two years ago on the National Assessment of Educational Progress were essentially erased this year as math and reading scores slipped to 2011 levels on the standardized test known as the “Nation’s Report Card.”

A man believed to be in his 50s died when he and two other fishermen were apparently swept out to sea by a large wave at the Moi Hole at Kaena Point State Park on Tuesday afternoon, according to an Emergency Services Department spokeswoman.

Scottie Te’o looks back at his early struggles in school and figures it was a matter of concentrating.

He couldn’t.

And, really, who could?

A 20-year-old Kaneohe man was arrested late Sunday in a hit-and-run crash after he allegedly injured two people on a motor scooter in Kaneohe.

Maui police charged a 49-year-old man with attempted murder Monday in connection with a stabbing in a Kihei park that left a Kahului man in critical condition.

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