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Each Sunday, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser publishes Oahu vital statistics for marriage licenses and birth certificates filed with the state Department of Health’s Vital Statistics System.

The Honolulu Fire Department responded to a two-alarm building fire Saturday morning in Waianae.

Tropical Storm Olaf, far away in the eastern Pacific, strengthened Saturday and was expected to become a hurricane by today.

Back-to-back shark attacks Saturday off Oahu left two men injured, one critically. A 44-year-old Kailua man received critical injuries to both feet in a shark attack late Saturday morning off Lanikai Beach.

A 31-year-old Waiehu man is facing an attempted murder charge after he allegedly injured a police officer and tried to run over another while attempting to avoid arrest on Friday.

In 2013, there were whispers about Saint Louis School shutting down.

Alumni and supporters rallied, and now the campus is clearly, palpably vibrant. Construction of a new athletic complex is underway behind dust screens.

The embattled Sandwich Isles Communications Inc. owes $108.6 million to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for loans it obtained to finance its telecommunications network on Hawaiian home lands, and has been in default on some or all of those loans for the past two years, according to federal records.

Robert Wade’s wife told him to get out of her life for good and bought him a one-way ticket from Tampa, Fla., to Honolulu, where Wade landed on Sept. 30 with no job, no home, no friends, no family and no plan.

The state Division of Aquatic Resources has scheduled public hearings in November on a proposed rule to permanently regulate the harvesting of sea cucumbers in state waters.

A Maui police officer has been arrested in connection with an alleged attempt to bribe a witness against him in a theft case, police said Friday.