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The 77-foot sunken fishing vessel Judy K — covered in mud, algae and barnacles — was floated Tuesday for the first time in eight months at Pier 16 thanks to the Army’s 7th Engineer Dive Detachment taking on the recovery as training.

The Hawaii Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a city variance that was necessary for Kyo-ya to replace the existing eight-story Moana Surfrider Diamond Head Tower with a 26-story hotel and residential tower.

A technology park in Kakaako is at least a 20-year-old state idea. But one with about as much space as you’d find in a 35-story tower could be realized by 2020 under a plan being advanced by an agency that controls land in the area.

Already well known in the U.S. Air Force as a MiG-killing ace in the Korean War, Winton Whittier “Bones” Marshall cemented his legendary status in the service in July 1953, with a quick-thinking stunt that saved a burning nuclear bomber.

Man killed in highway accident ID’d • Homeless man charged with sex assault • Alleged attacker arrested in stabbing

Mayor Kirk Caldwell is in South Carolina this week, attending a Mayors’ Institute on City Design meeting.

Question: There was a power outage on upper Kaamilo Street in Aiea on Sept. 18. A day before that, another lasted for four hours. A few days before that, there were two outages back-to-back.

Family and friends of a 19-year-old whose body was recovered Tuesday morning near the Halona Blowhole lookout lit candles at his family home in Port Jervis, N.Y., Tuesday night, according to a friend’s Facebook post.

Maui County Councilwoman Elle Cochran filed a state Campaign Spending Commission complaint Tuesday against the political action group Pacific Resource Partnership/Forward Progress, alleging that it plotted illegally with a political opponent to unseat her.

It’s just sitting there, begging for snarky comments — the announcement that $40,000 has been budgeted for an official portrait of former Gov. Neil Abercrombie, one of the more unpopular local political figures of our era.