Audrey McAvoy

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Ariel view of the chemical tank at GKN Aerospace in Garden Grove, Calif. on Wednesday, June 10, 2026.
FBI Seizes Evidence at California Plant Where Chemical Tank Overheated, Forced Evacuations
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This is the Honda logo on a Honda Civic Sport Touring automobile on display at the Pittsburgh International Auto Show in Pittsburgh, Feb. 14, 2025.
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In this Jan. 14, 2016 file photo, a drainage pipe that was the original culprit of the coal ash spill is seen at the Dan River Steam Station in Eden, N.C. North Carolina's top public health official acted unethically and possibly illegally by telling residents living near Duke Energy coal ash pits that their well water is safe to drink when it's contaminated with a chemical known to cause cancer, a state toxicologist said in sworn testimony.
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A downed U.S. Navy aircraft is seen in Kaneohe Bay, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, in Kaneohe, Hawaii.
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Navy Removes Fuel from Plane that Overshot Hawaii Runway
It doesn't have a timetable for when it will get the aircraft out of the water.
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A downed U.S. Navy aircraft is seen in Kaneohe Bay, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, in Kaneohe, Hawaii.
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All nine aboard the aircraft escape unharmed.
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This image taken from video provided by the NAOJ & Asahi Shimbun, shows spiral swirling through the night sky from Mauna Kea, Hawaii's tallest mountain.
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It was a "jaw-dropping event."
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U.S. public health officials on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022, began investigating how civilians have been affected by the leakage of petroleum into Pearl Harbor's tap water from a Navy fuel storage facility.
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U.S. Agencies Investigate Navy Fuel Leak's Effect on Civilians
Petroleum leaked into tap water from a Navy fuel storage facility.
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Teri Mann Whyatt displays photos of her uncle, William Edward Mann, who died on the USS Arizona during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, at her home Wednesday, July 14, 2021, in Newcastle, Wash. In recent years, the U.S. military has taken advantage of advances in DNA technology to identify the remains of hundreds of sailors and Marines who died in the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Families Urge Using New DNA Tech to ID Pearl Harbor Unknowns
Eighty-five sailors and Marines from the USS Arizona were buried as unknowns.
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Protesters hold signs critical of agro-giant Monsanto.
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The pesticide, which was sprayed on research crops, was classified as acute hazardous waste.
November 22, 2019
A telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii's tallest mountain is viewed. Astronomers using a giant telescope planned for Hawaii's tallest peak will be able to study how the earliest galaxies formed. They will be able to study planets orbiting stars other than our own with much greater detail.
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Backers of Telescope Tout Benefits Amid Protests
Opponents have gotten more attention than supporters as they have blocked a road to prevent construction.
July 26, 2019
This is the site where a Beechcraft King Air twin-engine plane crashed Friday evening killing multiple people seen on Saturday, June 22, 2019, in Mokuleia, Hawaii. No one aboard survived the skydiving plane crash, which left a small pile of smoky wreckage near the chain link fence surrounding Dillingham Airfield, a one-runway seaside airfield.
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Feds Probe Quality of Repairs on Plane
The same plane sustained substantial damage to its tail section in a 2016 accident while carrying skydivers over Northern California.
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Aloha Poke Claim Revives Push
Many were shocked when a Chicago restaurant trademarked "Aloha Poke", and wrote to fish shops demanding that they stop using the Hawaiian moniker.
April 19, 2019
In this Thursday, March 14, 2019 photo, Belinda Lau, manager of the Wiki Wiki Drive Inn takeout restaurant in Honolulu, sprinkles cheese on an order of spaghetti in a styrofoam container. Hawaii would be the first state in the U.S. to ban most plastics used at restaurants under legislation that aims to cut down on waste that pollutes the ocean. Dozens of cities across the country have banned plastic foam containers, but Hawaii would be the first to bar them statewide.
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Hawaii Weighs Plastic Ban
It is also proposing to ban foam containers state-wide.
March 19, 2019
In this Nov. 27, 2017, photo released by the U.S. Northern Command Alaskan NORAD Region/Alaskan Command/11th Air Force shows the Cobra Dane radar, a single faced ground-based, L-band phased-array radar located at Eareckson Air Station, Shemya, Alaska. The U.S. military wants to install missile defense radar, similar to this one shown, in Hawaii to identify any ballistic missiles that are fired from North Korea or elsewhere, officials said Tuesday, June 26, 2018.
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The radar could be 50 feet wide and 80 feet high.
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In this March 28, 2018, photo, Roxy Creed, left, speaks to Mandara Spa Operations Manager Lena Andrade about employment opportunities at a job fair in Honolulu. Recently released numbers show Hawaii boasts the United States' lowest jobless rate, at 2.1 percent. But experts say the figure is masking underlying problems.
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What's Wrong with Very Low Unemployment?
Hawaii has experienced the downside to a low unemployment rate.
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In this April 6, 2017, file photo, activists of the Basel political action committee 'March against Monsanto and Syngenta' protest in front of the Syngenta headquarters against the acquisition of Syngenta by the Chinese company ChemChina, in Basel, Switzerland. After a February 2018 announcement, critics are blasting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for dramatically lowering a fine on agribusiness company Syngenta for violations of pesticide regulations.
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EPA Blasted for Lowering Fine
The EPA initially proposed a fine nearly nine times larger — or $4.9 million — for just one incident.
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EPA Wants to Fine Chemical Giant $5M
They seek fines for alleged violations of pesticide regulations.
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