The skipper of a Pearl Harbor-based attack submarine was fired this week after he was found guilty of drunkenness and conduct unbecoming an officer.

A plan to raise the general excise tax 1 percentage point is on the move, but Senate leaders are predicting it will not get far. The action is the first sign this year that some Democrats in the Legislature would risk a big tax increase in an election year.

Certified nurse aide Nena Lopez is facing between 30 and 90 days in prison for the reckless neglect that caused the death of her ailing 79-year-old mother in 2006.

Prosecutors charged a 54-year-old Mililani man yesterday with second- degree attempted murder for allegedly shooting his 45-year-old next-door neighbor multiple times with a revolver.

Despite a history of not always being in agreement with each other, the union representing 13,500 public school teachers has backed state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa in the special election for Congress.

City Councilman Charles Djou yesterday filed papers to run in a special election to fill the vacant U.S. 1st Congressional District seat once held by Neil Abercrombie.

Dennis McLaughlin spent his career studying the brain, on a practical level as a clinical psychologist helping clients with mental illnesses, as adviser to courts and government agencies analyzing the capabilities of patients and prisoners, and on an academic level as researcher.

QUESTION: Can you update us on the mysterious disappearance of the Jacobs lady? It seems like it's been about three years. Any recent news?

Congressional candidates sought to set themselves apart from the pack last night as six of the challengers vying to replace Neil Abercrombie debated their positions on issues including health care reform, the national debt, public education and campaign finance reform.

When Tom Sugita and his wife, Marie, head for Las Vegas, they will go with the knowledge that there's already a stash of loot waiting.

A Florida man was arrested yesterday in Punta Gorda for allegedly defrauding 64 Hawaii residents in a $10 million multistate Ponzi scheme, U.S. Attorney Florence Nakakuni announced yesterday at a news conference.

The car involved in a fatal crash on the H-3 freeway on Friday arrived in Hawaii from California earlier this month containing about 32 pounds of methamphetamine, federal authorities said yesterday.

A 54-year-old Mililani man allegedly fired a gun at five people in his neighbor's back yard Sunday night, critically wounding a 45-year-old man. The man was arrested at his home on suspicion of five counts of second-degree attempted murder.

If Hawaii smokers think they are getting a deal buying cigarettes on the Internet, the state attorney general has some advice: Forget it. The state has recently stepped up its campaign to collect the tobacco tax of 13 cents per cigarette on all out-of-state sales.

Lt. Gen. Duane Thiessen, deputy Marine Corps commandant for programs and resources at the Pentagon, will be the next commander of Marine Corps forces in the Pacific.

Global warming will change ocean temperature patterns and rainfall rates in the tropics and subtropics, but not in the way most scientists have assumed, says a Hawaii meteorologist.

QUESTION: I no longer have the name and address of the person who uses old Christmas cards to make children's books. I think her name was Cindy Delgado. Can you please provide the correct name and address?