There were warnings of high wildfire danger in the days before a deadly blaze overtook the town of Lahaina in Hawaii last year, but the Maui Fire Department did little to get crews set in areas at risk and then struggled to launch firefighting vehicles once the blaze began consuming the town, according to an […]
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For the better part of a decade, some of Hawaii’s most powerful people huddled together at late-night parties in a cramped second-floor office where lobbyists and executives seeking government contracts lined up to drop cash and checks into a metal lockbox. That was the entry fee for these extraordinary political fund-raisers. Inside the office, just […]
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Taro Akebono, a Hawaii-born sumo wrestler who became the sport’s first foreign grand champion and helped to fuel a resurgence in the sport’s popularity in the 1990s, has died in Tokyo. He was 54. He died of heart failure in early April while receiving care at a Tokyo hospital, according to a statement from his […]
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Taro Akebono, a Hawaii-born sumo wrestler who became the sport’s first foreign grand champion, has died. He was 54. He died of heart failure in early April while receiving care at a hospital in Tokyo, the United States Forces in Japan said in a statement on Thursday. Born Chad George Ha’aheo Rowan in Hawaii, Akebono […]
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