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What Grace and Hideo Simon did for Sun Kum Medeiros is an extraordinary example of what loving people do in the name of family.

The biggest construction and renovation projects at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific since 1966 have the Department of Veterans Affairs warning visitors to Punchbowl that things will be bumpy — and noisy and somewhat unsightly — for some time at the usually serene cemetery.

Each week, 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 statistics cover the five-business-day period ending the Thursday of the previous week.

Kailua resident Greg Turnbull sent a picture of a freshly dead, 36-inch-long fish he found on Kailua Beach during a recent dawn walk.

The Honolulu medical examiner’s office is trying to identify a man who died Saturday while walking along Kamehameha Highway in Haleiwa.

A 20-year-old Waimea man died following a two-car collision on Mamalahoa Highway, Route 190, on Saturday evening, Hawaii County police said.

Question: Our organization has stopped collecting Capri Sun juice pouches. If there is a school or organization in Honolulu collecting these pouches (which are redeemed for 2 cents per pouch), we would be glad to donate our collection of pouches for their redemption.

The Honolulu Planning Commission voted last week to recommend approval of a city proposal to rezone about 282 acres in Waipahu to make way for mixed-use communities around the area’s two rail stations.

Tropical Storm Oho is moving northeast away from the state and is no longer expected to become a hurricane, according to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center.

Family members are hoping for more answers two weeks after a man drove himself to a Waianae clinic with multiple gunshot wounds and collapsed.