Pin Itemailprint The 2012 NFL Pro Bowl went down yesterday at Aloha Stadium in Hawaii. The annual pro football All-Star game was rather boring throughout the first half, but quickly became an all-out shootout during the second half. In the end, it was the AFC that emerged victorious, defeating the NFC by a score of [...]
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Just months after squashing rumors that they were having marital difficulties, a source claims that Katy Perry and Russell Brand are indeed having “problems.” That source says that the pair spent “a lot of time apart” over the Christmas holiday. (UPDATE: Their divorce has now been confirmed) The “Firework” singer vacationed in Hawaii for Christmas [...]
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Sunday will mark the beginning of a brand new year, and with it will come the enactment of several new laws that were passed in 2011. In all, almost 40,000 laws were passed in 2011, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Many of these new 2012 laws go into effect on New Year’s [...]
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It sounds like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi had a pretty luxurious holiday. For the third consecutive year, the California Democrat spent Christmas holed up in a beachside hotel at Historic Ka’upulehu in Kona on the island of Hawaii. For each of the past two years, Pelosi has reserved a posh suite that goes for [...]
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It’s been nine months since that massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami decimated Japan, killing over 15,000 people in the process. Tsunami debris has already begun washing ashore thousands of miles from the epicenter on the West Coast of the U.S. Last week, along the coast of Washington state, nine polyethylene buoys that belonged to a [...]
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The state of Maryland has some pretty high rollers. Today, Phoenix Marketing International released their annual ranking of millionaires per capita by state. According to their Global Wealth Monitor, a service that tracks affluent and high net worth households, the state of Maryland has topped Hawaii as the state with the most millionaires per capita. [...]
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Thanks to two of the world’s biggest optical-infrared telescopes, the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, a group of astronomers has found more than two dozen brown dwarf stars floating freely throughout two galactic clusters. During the Substellar Objects in Nearby Young Clusters (SONYC) survey, these “failed stars” drew [...]
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A NASA spacecraft currently in orbit around the asteroid Vesta is uncovering some amazing new details about the huge space rock, including a gigantic mountain that’s taller than our own Mt. Everest. NASA’s Dawn probe has been orbiting the asteroid Vesta since mid-July, when it arrived in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. [...]
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Susan De Vanny and her family visited the the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. As is usually the case on such family outings, Susan took lots of pictures. One photo in particular, though, has her perplexed, as it seems to show a mysterious face in the water. 1,177 sailors died aboard the USS Arizona [...]
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A California man is dead after getting sucked into a Maui blowhole. Witnesses say tourist David Potts, 44, was dancing around in the sprays from the blowhole just before a wave knocked him down. California resident Rocco Piganelli says he watched in horror as a large wave pushed Potts into the gaping hole off Nakalele [...]
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Well, Justin Bieber‘s relationship with Selena Gomez seems to be going really well. The two were recently spotted frolicking on the beach in Hawaii and the two were clearly enjoying each other’s company. The “Baby” singer was seen grabbing a handful of the Wizards of Waverly Place starlet. The happy couple then proceeded to basically [...]
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Don’t piss off anyone from Utah. That’s the message in the latest Gallup poll, which shows how stressed out people are based on what state they live in. Among the least stressed out folks in the country are those in Hawaii, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota. At the other end of the spectrum, the [...]
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