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The Honolulu Advertiser - Local News Local News articles for Thursday, May 04, 2006

Local News
•	No more oversight of health plan rates
•	A&B's Kaka'ako condo plans over
•	Lessons from eyes of Peggy Chun
•	Quake tests tsunami center
•	Liquor-probe bid withdrawn
LEGISLATURE
•	Bill on appointing lawmakers vetoed
•	Arakaki out of race for House
STATE GOVERNMENT
•	Lawmakers defer to utilities agency
CITY GOVERNMENT
•	11 charter proposals OK'd for voters to decide upon
EDUCATION
•	State gets D+ for technology
•	2 Hawai'i teachers win top award
•	Red Raiders tough to beat 'in court'
•	Education briefs: School's promise
•	Persistent teen gets to study in Chile
COURTS
•	Killer's prison term is now 5 years longer
POLICE
•	HPD recognizes four for top achievements
POLICE BEAT
•	Call to FBI leads to threat probe
WEATHER
•	Tsunami alerts sent as far as Fiji, New Zealand
•	Decision to not reopen schools questioned
HEALTH
•	Mental-health program doing better, judge says
OTHER NEWS
•	Volunteers
•	Most sodas will be expelled from U.S. schools
•	Salutes
•	Great white's transmitter lost
•	Community Calendar
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
•	Fund set up for workers' families
BUREAUCRACY BUSTER
•	Flashing billboard has waiver
OBITUARIES
•	'Jimmy' Chong, 81, helped his community
•	Kahala fashion retailer Nancy Lang, 82
•	Obituaries