BIIF football: Kamehameha goes smash-mouth in win over Kohala
KEAAU – In an efficient display of smash-mouth football, Kamehameha rolled over Kohala 21-7 in a BIIF Division II game Saturday at Paiea Stadium.
BIIF football: Wildcats beat Waveriders 42-13, enter postseason undefeated
KAILUA-KONA – In a cross-town battle on the gridiron, Kealakehe was ready to take the momentum with them into halftime.
Wood, Ueda crowned BIIF champions: Waiakea takes boys and girls team titles
Basketball: UHH women down Multnomah again
Nikki Miller posted another double-double, and Mandi Kawaha was an efficient playmaker with 23 points, seven assists against just one turnover for the UH-Hilo women’s basketball team, which crushed Multnomah 84-64 on Saturday at Hilo Civic.
BIIF football: Honokaa hot for playoffs, downs Ka’u 54-6
PAHALA – With every toss, dive and quarterback keeper play it runs, Honokaa continues to ascend the learning curve that is the triple-option offense.
Cartoon for November 21
The Big Island as seen by Hawaii Tribune-Herald cartoonist Gary Hoff.
Police: DUI roadblocks return for holiday season
With the holiday season under way, police once again will take to Hawaii County’s streets to conduct DUI roadblocks, according to Torey Keltner, Hawaii Police Department Traffic Services Division program manager.
Atlanta airport checkpoint chaos: Man grabs gun, it goes off
ATLANTA — A passenger awaiting a search at the Atlanta airport’s main security checkpoint reached in his bag and grabbed a firearm, and it went off, causing chaos among travelers and prompting a temporary FAA ground stop on flights Saturday afternoon, officials said. The man fled.
UH-Hilo geology students get ‘real-life experience on a volcano’
Instead of relaxing on a day off from school, seven students decided to wake up early on a recent Saturday for a long day of data collection.
Delayed sexual assault trial to begin Nov. 30
The oft-delayed jury trial for a 21-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting an elderly woman at a South Kohala campground in 2019 will begin later this month after the defendant allowed a material witness to testify via Zoom.
No cruise ships until 2022
Anyone hoping to travel on a cruise ship to Hawaii this year can forget about it.
Child tax credit is an investment in the nation’s future
Children are good. They may be sticky, loud and misbehaved. But that doesn’t make children, in themselves, any less good. It just makes them children — the adorable, needy, frustrating, chaotic and absolutely irreplaceable building blocks of society, and of human civilization itself.
New hurdle for COVID-19 home testing — the holiday season
WASHINGTON — Millions more home tests for COVID-19 are hitting store shelves, but will there be enough for Americans hoping to screen themselves before holiday gatherings?
Hundreds protest Rittenhouse acquittal across US
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Law enforcement in Portland Friday night declared a riot as about 200 demonstrators protested the acquittal of a teen who killed two people and injured another in Wisconsin.
US climate pledge faces test in Senate with global impact
WASHINGTON — After talking the climate talk at U.N. negotiations in Scotland, the Biden administration now tests whether a divided United States can walk the climate walk: push a massive investment for a new era of clean energy through the narrowest of margins in the Senate.
Help us transform health care
The COVID-19 pandemic changed everything about our world, our economy, our education system and our personal and professional lives. One of the earliest lessons the pandemic revealed to us was how vital access to quality health care, close to home, is for the health of our community.
Irwin: Grateful for their resilience
One of the things I am most in awe of on a day-to-day basis is the resilience of our students at UH-Hilo. That resilience has been even more on display in the last many months as life’s challenges have intersected with the various COVID-caused challenges, including reduced social and physical contact, strained finances, and anxiety over the pandemic itself and the vulnerabilities of our families and friends.
Fox says it did not pay for Rittenhouse film and interview
NEW YORK — A Fox News executive said Saturday the network did not pay Kyle Rittenhouse’s family for any special access during Rittenhouse’s murder trial or after his acquittal, after it was announced that he would speak to Tucker Carlson for an interview to air on Monday.
Protests erupt over virus rules in Austria, Italy, Croatia
VIENNA — Tens of thousands of protesters, many from far-right groups, marched through Vienna on Saturday after the Austrian government announced a nationwide lockdown beginning Monday to contain skyrocketing coronavirus infections.
Thanksgiving turkey giveaway honors slain rapper Young Dolph
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Friends and associates of slain rapper Young Dolph handed out Thanksgiving turkeys at a neighborhood church Friday in Memphis, Tennessee, two days after he was gunned down in broad daylight inside his favorite bakery.
