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The commander of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan met with the army chiefs of Pakistan and Afghanistan in Islamabad Sunday to discuss border security and anti-terror coordination. The meeting of the Afghanistan-Pakistan-ISAF Tripartite Commission came as Pakistani civilian and military leaders are preparing for talks Tuesday on ending the nearly six-month blockade of NATO supply routes [...]
BY MICHAEL BOWMAN - The United States and NATO-led international forces have condemned the assassination of a top Afghan peace negotiator. The Taliban denied responsibility for the attack, but a high-ranking U.S. senator says the killing of Afghan High Peace Council member Arsala Rahmani is further evidence of Taliban intentions as American force levels are [...]
Internet company Yahoo has its fourth CEO in less than four years, after chief Scott Thompson left the company amid a controversy about his academic record. Yahoo on Sunday named the company's global media head, Ross Levinsohn, as its interim CEO. Thompson leaves Yahoo after just four months as chief executive. The company's stock price [...]
BY JIM DOOLEY - The first time Honolulu police officer Craig Clissold was accused of peeping into the home of a Hawaii Kai neighbor, he was allowed to enter a deferred plea of no contest that resulted in eventual erasure of the charge against him. Not this time, prosecutors say. Clissold, now retired from HPD, was [...]
Two state appellate judges, two Circuit Court judges and a law school professor have been nominated to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Hawaii Supreme Court. The Hawaii Judicial Selection Commission announced today it nominated the five candidates to fill a vacancy on the high court when Associate Justice James Duffy reaches the mandatory retirement [...]
The Departments of Health and Agriculture launched an investigation into whether pesticides are being used incorrectly at several Thai and Sweet Basil farms in Kunia and Ewa on Oahu. The answer was yes: After testing 10 basil samples from 5 produce distributors, 7 of the 10 samples tested positive for the presence of one or [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Every October, some 2,000 people along with their favorite pets, meet at Ala Moana Beach Park’s Magic Island. The Saturday morning event, run by the Hawaiian Humane Society, is called Petwalk. People bring their dogs, cats, bunny rabbits and even birds, and walk around the beach park. There are some unusual [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle has been noticeably absent from city council hearings. Budget Chair Ann Kobayashi has brought up the issue, particularly when the mayor’s own executive budget is being presented to the council for consideration. “Is the mayor here?” Kobayashi regularly asked at the start of this year’s Spring budget hearings [...]
The city's rail authority - HART - has released renderings for its planned Chinatown station. Talk about urban sprawl: This drawing is from the HART website and is their engineering drawing of the Chinatown station (page 44/85). Using the right hand lane height from ground level to the underside of the rail structure of 18' 1" (as [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - The Honolulu City Council passed bill 37 on the second of three scheduled readings last night after its monthly meeting that included several controversial items. Bill 37 would allow the city to borrow as much as $450 million in commercial paper for its planned $5.3 billion elevated steel on steel rail [...]
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