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Since Sunday, Emergency Medical Services paramedics have gone to the aid of four people in separate moped accidents — one fatal, one critical and two serious.

A state judge is giving former Honolulu police officer Danson Cappo, who pleaded no contest to theft, assault and property damage charges, a chance to eventually clear the offenses from his record.

A state jury found Michael Abella guilty of manslaughter Tuesday for the fatal beating of a fellow homeless man in downtown Honolulu in July 2014.

Raise your hand if you still slip and call it “Liberty House.”

Right?!! What’s up with that?

Liberty House was sold to Macy’s in 2001. Why is the old name still stuck in our heads?

City officials are proposing zoning changes for about 282 acres around Waipahu’s two rail stations to facilitate development of mixed-use neighborhoods patterned after the city planners’ concept of “live, work and play.”

A 31-year-old father of three died Tuesday after he shot himself with a shotgun following a police pursuit from Kapolei to Kalihi, forcing Dole Middle School into a brief lockdown.

A telecom company that serves about 3,600 residents of Hawaiian Home Lands is facing mounting financial difficulties following a Monday ruling by the state Public Utilities Commission that cuts off its federal subsidies through at least March.

Proposed rules announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of the Interior emphasize that Native Hawaiians — not the federal government — would decide how to reorganize a Native Hawaiian government and determine any relationship it would have with the United States.

A 34-year-old career criminal ordering a soccer mom to drive around Kapiolani Park during a gunpoint robbery Sept. 21 said he was “a druggy” and then left the car with more than $7,300 in money, cellphone, jewelry and Maui Jim sunglasses and several credit cards, according to a police affidavit filed Monday in Honolulu District Court.

In her yet young life, Grace Schnetzler has pursued all manner of extracurricular activity — soccer, paddling, cheerleading, judo — but none, she says, has resonated with her personal values quite like her recent explorations into filmmaking.