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date: 2024-04-21, updated: 2024-04-21, from: Marianas Variety
FORMER Department of Public Works Public Information Officer Felipe Q. Atalig said he wants to see justice while he is still alive.
date: 2024-04-21, updated: 2024-04-21, from: Marianas Variety
“HOPE of the Marianas” by Christian Apolonio was the Best of Show winner in Bridge Capital’s 11th Annual Art Competition at the Flame Tree Arts Festival on Saturday, April 20 at the Garapan Fishing Base.
date: 2024-04-21, updated: 2024-04-21, from: Marianas Variety
SUWASO Corp., which owns Coral Ocean Point Golf & Resort, is having a hard time complying with the 200-hotel room requirement under its current land lease agreement with the Department of Public Lands due to a lack of construction workers.
date: 2024-04-21, updated: 2024-04-21, from: Marianas Variety
ATTORNEY Joaquin DLG Torres wants to exercise his right to speak in Chamorro at the bench trial of Chief of Parole Nick Masga Reyes that begins today, Monday, April 22, at 10 a.m. in Superior Court.
date: 2024-04-21, updated: 2024-04-21, from: Marianas Variety
THE municipal officials of Guam, Saipan, Tinian and Rota met on Friday, April 19, at the Koblerville Youth Center on Saipan to discuss a host of regional issues.
date: 2024-04-21, updated: 2024-04-21, from: Marianas Variety
THE U.S. Senate on Tuesday, April 16, confirmed Ramona V. Manglona’s nomination to serve a second 10-year term as federal judge of the District Court for the NMI.
date: 2024-04-21, updated: 2024-04-21, from: Marianas Variety
IMPERIAL Pacific International LLC has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the District Court for the NMI, saying it owes creditors over $165.8 million.
date: 2024-04-21, updated: 2024-04-21, from: Marianas Variety
THE Commonwealth Ports Authority’s Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting unit conducted a full-scale triennial airport disaster drill at the southern end of Francisco C. Ada/Saipan International Airport on Friday.
date: 2024-04-21, updated: 2024-04-21, from: Marianas Variety
(Reuters) — Jose Berrios tossed six shutout innings and Daulton Varsho cracked a three-run homer to lift the visiting Toronto Blue Jays to a 5-2 win over the San Diego Padres on Saturday night.
date: 2024-04-21, updated: 2024-04-21, from: Marianas Variety
(Reuters) — Nikola Jokic had 32 points and 12 rebounds and the host Denver Nuggets opened their NBA title defense with a 114-103 win over the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 1 of their Western Conference first-round playoff series on Saturday night.
date: 2024-04-21, from: Pacific Island Times
FSM President Wesley Simina leads a 15-member delegation during a visit to Ch By Mar-Vic Cagurangan Barely a month after completing new…
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A proposed law that would make motorists thrice convicted of driving without a license within five years guilty of a felony will go to Gov. Josh Green’s desk for his signature.</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WILMINGTON, N.C. — Donald Trump had to cancel his first planned rally since the start of his criminal hush money trial because of a storm Saturday evening in North Carolina, an added complication that highlights the difficulty the former president faces in juggling his legal troubles with his rematch against President Joe Biden.</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The fate of the Thirty Meter Telescope rests in the hands of the Hawaiian community, observatory officials say.</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A 31-year-old Pepeekeo man was arrested Tuesday and charged for attempted distribution of fentanyl.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/04/21/hawaii-news/police-bust-pepeekeo-man-for-fentanyl/
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Honua Ola Bioenergy on Tuesday filed an objection to an order by U.S. Magistrate Judge Kenneth J. Mansfield denying its request to add three subsidiaries of Hawaiian Electric Industries as defendants in an ongoing lawsuit.</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A 25-year-old Pahoa woman accused of killing a pedestrian in a hit-and-run traffic incident on April 13 in Hilo will receive a court-ordered mental examination.</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — The House swiftly approved $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies in a rare Saturday session as Democrats and Republicans banded together after months of hard-right resistance over renewed American support for repelling Russia’s invasion.</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed legislation reauthorizing a key U.S. surveillance law after divisions over whether the FBI should be restricted from using the program to search for Americans’ data nearly forced the statute to lapse. Barely missing its midnight deadline, the Senate had approved the bill by a 60-34 vote hours earlier with bipartisan support, extending for two years the program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Biden thanked congressional leaders for their work.</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — The House passed legislation Saturday that would ban TikTok in the United States if the popular social media platform’s China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake within a year, but don’t expect the app to go away anytime soon.</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>RAFAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah killed at least nine people, six of them children, hospital authorities said Saturday, as Israel pursued its nearly seven-month offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory.</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>BANGKOK — About 1,300 people have fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand, officials said Saturday, as fresh fighting erupted at a border town that has recently been captured by ethnic guerillas.</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Gary Aganus, 91, of Papaaloa died Feb. 1 at North Hawaii Community Hospital. Born in Paauhau, he was a retired plantation field manager for the former Hamakua Sugar, worked for the former Paauhau Sugar and the county Planning Department, served on the Liquor Commission, played and coached baseball from youth to makule, diver/fisherman and gardener. Visitation 9-10 a.m. Saturday (April 27) at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Honokaa. Celebration of Life Mass at 10 a.m. Urn burial to follow at Honokaa Catholic Cemetery. Survived by daughter, Garolyn Akiona; son, Stacy Aganus; sister, Charlene (Michael) Sohriakoff; sisters-in-law, Jane Aganus, Caroline Hart and Kazue Hart; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/04/21/obituaries/obituaries-for-april-21-14/
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Earth’s magnetic field surrounds us every second of the day, everywhere on the planet. Anyone who has picked up a pocket compass and seen the magnetic needle quickly align itself has seen the action of this ever-present invisible field. But can we harness the magnetic field to forecast volcanic activity? Emerging technology in the field of “quantum” science may aid us in doing so.</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Baseball</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Scoring Live officially released its All-Hawaii awards for the 2023-24 basketball season, and multiple Big Island Interscholastic (BIIF) players represented the isle by making the list.</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p><strong>CLA 3 - MLCA 0</strong></p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/04/21/sports/biif-dii-volleyball-concludes-di-nears-end/
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>DENVER (AP) — Unlike their crowd that drowned out the Los Angeles Lakers’ pregame introductions, the defending NBA champion Denver Nuggets were a little late to the playoff party Saturday night.</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>RALEIGH, N.C. — Nothing came easily for the Carolina Hurricanes to start the NHL playoffs.</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Bucks are dealing with injuries to key players during the playoffs — again. And Tyrese Haliburton and the Indiana Pacers are standing in their way.</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>SAN DIEGO — When SeaWorld San Diego marked its half-century anniversary 10 years ago, it was enmeshed in a public relations quagmire following the release just a year earlier of “Blackfish,” the searing anti-captivity documentary that threatened to upend the theme park’s identity as the home of Shamu the beloved killer whale.</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The phrase, “Don’t waste a crisis,” has almost become a cliche, and we use it in reference to many things, especially economic crises. Indeed, when we experience a crisis, we should always learn what we can from it in the hopes of not experiencing it again. Experiencing a medical crisis often leads us to pay greater attention to our health. An economic crisis may lead us to make better decisions about spending and saving.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/04/21/opinion/ready-to-welcome-hundreds-of-keiki/
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>More funds needed
to serve homeless</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/04/21/opinion/your-views-for-april-21-9/
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The 49 Senate Republicans spent Wednesday afternoon furiously sputtering that they weren’t allowed to debate if Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security, duly and formally impeached by the House, should be tried in the upper chamber.</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Dodging four men pushing a cart full of honeydew melons, I step out of the noisy traffic of Istanbul, pass through the horseshoe-arched door, and trade one commotion for another. Suddenly the air — heated by millions of watts of electric bulbs — is several degrees warmer. Like carnivorous flowers, merchants seduce from glittering shops. They say “Welcome to the Grand Bazaar.”</p>
date: 2024-04-21, from: Guam Daily Post
The measure looking to extend the deadline to bring an arrested person before a magistrate judge - from 48 hours to 72 hours - received opposition from public defense attorneys on Thursday, who testified that the bill is unnecessary and…
date: 2024-04-21, from: Guam Daily Post
The eight Guam Department of Education schools on the list for refurbishment have not been identified publicly, but they may be as soon as the contract details have been completed.
date: 2024-04-21, from: Guam Daily Post
With the cost of rent and homeownership sky-high, officials from the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development in Hawaii will be coming to Guam to share what loans and grants are available for residents, businesses and cooperatives in the…
date: 2024-04-21, from: Guam Daily Post
Drake Aquiningoc Sanchez, 30, was exhibiting “tumultuous behavior,” when at 2 a.m., Guam Police Department officers were called by his grandparents out of fear.
date: 2024-04-21, from: Guam Daily Post
A man has been arrested for allegedly taking a picture of a young girl as she showered.
date: 2024-04-21, from: Guam Daily Post
Officers with the Guam Police Department said Anthony Raymond Mendiola, 40, cried when they allegedly found drugs and a gun in his possession during a traffic stop on April 20.
date: 2024-04-21, from: Pacific Island Times
By Bryan Manabat Asia Pacific Airlines, a Guam-based air cargo service, is facing $2.9 million in civil penalties proposed by the Federal…