Not Guilty: Ex-Honolulu Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro, Businessman Dennis Mitsunaga And Others Walk In Bribery CaseÂ
Tearful defendants and their attorneys embraced after the clerk read the verdict.
Paul R. Philbrook
Born Nov. 6, 1931 Norwich, Vermont Died March 3, 2024 Venice, Florida Details of services Celebration of Life: Sunday, June 2 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Snow Farm…
Oregon House Republican leader used minor ballot delivery delay to question election integrity
Rep. Jeff Helfrich, R-Hood River, used a minor delay in transferring ballots from post offices to county election offices to spread doubt in Oregon’s election system. (Julia Shumway/Oregon Capital Chronicle)…
More than half of states sue to block Biden Title IX rule protecting LGBTQ+ students
More than half of states, all with Republican attorneys general, have sued to block a recent U.S. Department of Education final rule seeking to protect LGBTQ+ students from discrimination. (Credit:…
Minnesota Legislature pushes off 2024 to-do list for final two daysÂ
The new Minnesota state flag flies alongside the Quadriga on May 13, 2024. Photo by Andrew VonBank/Minnesota House Public Information Services. The Minnesota Legislature’s Democratic majority has about two days…
Electrician strike in Puget Sound region stretches beyond five weeks
An IBEW Local 46 electrician on strike. (IBEW Local 46) More than 1,000 electricians in the Puget Sound region have been on strike for the past five weeks, disrupting construction…
Amid criticism, postal service pauses plans to restructure facilities in White River Junction and Burlington
Carol Fairbanks loads sorted mail into bins at the U.S. Postal Service processing plant in White River Junction on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. File photo by James M. Patterson/Valley News…
Biden celebrates ‘the power of an education’ on Brown v. Board 70th anniversary
A section of the Brown v. Board mural is seen on April 2, 2024, at the Kansas Statehouse. The mural appears outside the former Kansas Supreme Court room where 11…
Farm bill text released in U.S. House, setting up fight with Senate
Doug Goyings, a fifth-generation farmer in northwestern Ohio, received a USDA Rural Energy for America Program grant in 2023 to install a 288-panel solar array (seen at left) at his…
Navajo leaders outraged after a Lakota student’s tribal regalia was removed at graduation
A school official at Farmington High School speaks with graduate Genesis White Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, before taking away her personalized graduation cap and…