In a game filled with big plays, Cesar Silva's pressure-packed 37-yard field goal proved to be the winning difference for Fresno State on Saturday night. Listen to this article: After Silva split the uprights as time expired, the visiting Bulldogs celebrated their 41-38 victory over Hawaii in a wild...
New Technology Helps Search Teams Find People in Wilderness
HONOLULU — Yesenia D'Alessandro loaded a GPS tracking app on her cellphone and trudged into a remote Hawaii forest, joining more than 100 other volunteers in the search for a missing hiker. She climbed through muddy ravines, crossed streams and faced steep drop-offs in the thick tangle of trees and...
Big Island Residents Struggle a Year After Historic Eruption
LEILANI ESTATES, Hawaii — A year after a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island rained lava and gases in one of its largest and most destructive eruptions in recorded history, people who lost their homes and farms in the disaster are still struggling to return to their cherished island lifestyle. More...
Researchers Come Face to Face With Huge Great White Shark
HALIEWA, Hawaii — Two shark researchers who came face to face with what could be one of the largest great whites ever recorded are using their encounter as an opportunity to push for legislation that would protect sharks in Hawaii. Ocean Ramsey, a shark researcher and conservationist, told The Associated...
Now 97, Navy Veteran Recalls 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor
HONOLULU — Retired U.S. Navy Cmdr. Don Long was alone on an anchored military seaplane in the middle of a bay across the island from Pearl Harbor when Japanese warplanes started striking Hawaii on December 7, 1941, watching from afar as the bombs and bullets killed and wounded thousands. The waves of...
Blowout Win Over Hawaii Moves Bulldogs into Top 25
Marcus McMaryion threw for 284 yards and four touchdowns and Fresno State blew it open before halftime to beat Hawaii 50-20 Saturday night. Following a power outage that delayed the game roughly 30 minutes not long after the contest started, Fresno State lit it up in the second quarter scoring...
Gecko Butt-Dials ‘Bazillion’ Times From Hawaii Seal Hospital
HONOLULU — If you got incessant phone calls last week from a hospital that cares for Hawaiian monk seals, you were butt-dialed. Or, more specifically, foot-dialed. By a gecko. Marine mammal veterinarian Claire Simeone was at lunch when she got a call from Ke Kai Ola, the Big Island hospital...
14 States Have Seen Record-Low Unemployment
Eight states, including California, hit record lows for unemployment in March. That brings the number of states setting marks for low unemployment rates to 14 in the past year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS has compiled employment figures for individual states since 1976. "The states hitting new unemployment...
Roll Back the Clock on Daylight Saving Time Scam
Daylight saving time is a scam. First proposed by Ben Franklin (with tongue firmly in cheek) in 1784 as a way of conserving candlepower, DST does not save any energy or produce any other measurable benefits, but does, in fact, impose real costs on many people around the world, forcing...