Audrey McAvoy

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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
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Navy Plane Overshoots Runway, Ends Up in Ocean
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November 21, 2023
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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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
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Protesters hold signs critical of agro-giant Monsanto.
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Monsanto Guilty of Illegal Pesticide Use
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.
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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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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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It is also proposing to ban foam containers state-wide.
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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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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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