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Gas Barreling Toward $4 A Gallon – New York’s PIX11 / WPIX-TV

Apr 17th, 2011 | By | Category: Around The Islands

AOL News
Gas Barreling Toward $4 A Gallon
New York’s PIX11 / WPIX-TV
Motorists in Washington, DC joined those in Hawaii, Alaska, California, Illinois and Connecticut where prices have already hit the $4 mark and beyond, according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge. Hawaii has the highest price in the US at $4.47 per gallon.
Hawaii gas prices leads nation at $4.46 a gallonBusinessWeek
Gas prices seem to be climbing highKPLC-TV
Gas hits $4 a gallon in DCWashington Examiner (blog)
DCist.com -Newser -Pacific Business News
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Gas Prices Average $4 in DC – DCist.com

Apr 16th, 2011 | By | Category: Around The Islands

WANE
Gas Prices Average $4 in DC
DCist.com
The District joins California, Hawaii, Alaska, and Illinois as the other places in the nation with the ungodly high average. Believe it or not, the $4 average actually isn't the highest DC has seen – on July 16, 2008, gas prices topped out at $4.19 per
Hawaii gas prices leads nation at $4.46 a gallonBusinessWeek
Cheapest gas prices for April 15WXXA
Hawaii's gas prices up 8 cents to $4.46Pacific Business News
Fredericksburg.com (blog) -TheDay.com -YourWestValley.com
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Missile defense test uses Pearl Harbor destroyer – The Associated Press

Apr 15th, 2011 | By | Category: Around The Islands

Daily Mail
Missile defense test uses Pearl Harbor destroyer
The Associated Press
HONOLULU (AP) — Officials say the US military's sea-based missile defense system successfully intercepted an intermediate-range missile for the first time during a test more than 2000 miles off Hawaii. The Missile Defense Agency said the USS Hopper
Lockheed's Aegis System Test Hits Intermediate Ballistic MissileBloomberg
Shoot Down Validates Obama's Missile Defense Plan, Capability to Defeat PR Newswire (press release)
US Military Successfully Tests Missile Defense SystemFox News
Reuters -Arizona Daily Star -Yokwe
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Obama: ‘I Was Born in Hawaii’ – The Root

Apr 15th, 2011 | By | Category: Around The Islands

Los Angeles Times
Obama: 'I Was Born in Hawaii'
The Root
And this controversy continues to puzzle us, as then-candidate Barack Obama released a birth certificate in the summer of 2008 showing that he was born in Hawaii. While we don't think this will stop Trump from spreading lies anytime soon,
Obama takes on birthers, Donald Trump: I was born in Hawaii, endeavor makes New York Daily News
April 15: Obama Takes On Birthers and Clinton to Visit Childhood Homemsnbc.com
Debunking the birther claimCNN Political Ticker (blog)
Examiner.com -STLtoday.com -Los Angeles Times
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Hawaii gas prices leads nation at $4.46 a gallon – The Seattle Times

Apr 15th, 2011 | By | Category: Around The Islands

KXLY Spokane
Hawaii gas prices leads nation at $4.46 a gallon
The Seattle Times
Hawaii's average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline hit a nation-leading $4.46 on Thursday, 28 cents higher than second-place California. Associated Press Hawaii's average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline hit a
Hawaii gas prices leads nation at $4.46 a gallonSan Francisco Chronicle

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Obama: I was born in Hawaii (and I don’t ‘have horns’) – USA Today

Apr 14th, 2011 | By | Category: Around The Islands

Reuters
Obama: I was born in Hawaii (and I don't 'have horns')
USA Today
It "creates, I think, a problem for them when they want to actually run in a general election where most people feel pretty confident the President was born where he says he was, in Hawaii," Obama told ABC News in an interview. The president added that
Obama: I was born in Hawaii, lack hornsCBS News
Obama: Most people confident he was born in HawaiiWall Street Journal
Obama Exclusive: I Was Born in Hawaii and I Don't 'Have Horns'ABC News (blog)
myfoxny.com -Baltimore Sun (blog) -Daily Mail
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Humble man, 65, dies while snorkeling in Hawaii – Houston Chronicle

Apr 14th, 2011 | By | Category: Around The Islands
Humble man, 65, dies while snorkeling in Hawaii
Houston Chronicle
AP KAILUA-KONA, HawaiiHawaii County officials plan on conducting an autopsy as part of their investigation into the death of a cruise ship passenger who lost consciousness and died during a snorkeling trip to a local beach.

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WaMu Hawaii Trips for Bankers Drove Risk as Regulator Failed, Report Says – Bloomberg

Apr 14th, 2011 | By | Category: Around The Islands
WaMu Hawaii Trips for Bankers Drove Risk as Regulator Failed, Report Says
Bloomberg
The lender gave its top producers free trips to places like Hawaii and the Bahamas in return for increasing mortgage volume, even as performance of the loans deteriorated, according to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report on the

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Pension tax proposal on life support in Hawaii – BusinessWeek

Apr 13th, 2011 | By | Category: Around The Islands
Pension tax proposal on life support in Hawaii
BusinessWeek
The Hawaii Senate on Tuesday rejected a proposal to begin taxing pension income, greatly diminishing its chances of becoming law. Senators said they were swayed by widespread opposition from senior citizens and an opinion from the state
Price of paradise going upKHON2

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Obama’s sister attacks Trump’s birther movement – DailyIndia.com

Apr 13th, 2011 | By | Category: Around The Islands

CTV.ca
Obama's sister attacks Trump's birther movement
DailyIndia.com
Washington, Apr.13: US President Barack Obama's sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, has slammed comments made by 'birthers', who claim that Obama was not born in Hawaii, saying it is time to put the argument to rest. Maya, who campaigned alongside Obama when he
Obama's sister: 'He was born in Hawaii and that's a fact'msnbc.com
President's sister says it's time to move past birther issueHonolulu Star-Advertiser
Obama's sister criticizes birthersCNN (blog)
Reuters -New York Daily News -WTMA
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