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Broadway has played it safe many times in the last 25 or 30 years, staging shows that come with a built-in audience thanks to their prior success as a movie, television show or comic book. “Sister Act,” Broadway’s version of the hit 1992 movie of the same name, is one of them.

Albert Minn sat in the shade while people around him talked about why he’s so special. The 90-year-old wore his trademark pointed beard and a red T-shirt with a logo (depicting him with his trademark pointed beard) framed by the words “Al Minn Invitational.”

As news spread this month of the disappearance of fisheries observer Keith Davis aboard a Panamanian-flagged fishing vessel, many of those most familiar with the life of embedded observers on high-seas fishing expeditions were struck with the same uneasy feeling.

Internal Revenue Service auditor Crystal Carey had been poring over boxes of complex, convoluted accounting records for Waimana Enterprises Inc. for months when she asked to see the jewelry.

SAN FRANCISCO >> Ryan Ramirez, 31, had gone three days without cleaning himself when he brushed his teeth and enjoyed a hot shower inside an abandoned city bus that has been converted into a mobile hygiene station for homeless people like him.

After its skipper and senior enlisted leader were removed from duty in 2012, the Pearl Harbor attack submarine USS Columbia did a 180-degree course change, improving its operations and conducting a challenging deployment to the western Pacific.

Environmentalists on Friday asked a federal judge to stop the National Marine Fisheries Service from allowing Hawaii-based fishermen to attribute some of the bigeye tuna they catch to U.S. territories.

Police are looking for a man who stole a vehicle Thursday with a 3-year-old girl inside.

Bike event registration still open • Longshoremen to clean harbor debris •
Man dies after being found floating in bay; and more

As a record season of tropical cyclone activity continues, the National Weather Service issued several advisories Friday in advance of approaching Tropical Storm Niala.