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Local News
•	Plan avoids library closures
•	Garbage shipment dispute settled
•	Suspect in killing wants confession tossed
•	Honolulu police chief says aloha to job, but may go into politics
•	Hawaii visitor arrivals up 1.3% — but their spending drops 12.4%
•	Inouye recalls optimism of Senate colleague Ted Kennedy
•	Retiree Al Chamizo, aka 'Courthouse Al'
•	Students being asked to step up for better diploma
•	Kennedy will be buried near brothers
•	Pearl Harbor, Hickam to merge
CITY GOVERNMENT
•	Property tax measure advances
MY COMMUNITIES
•	Woman found strangled in alley was McKinley grad
•	Driver killed in car crash near Leihoku Elementary
•	Publishers group plans print media expo on Sept. 15
•	Parachutist injured jumping from high up mountainside
•	1,000-gallon wastewater spill was due to clogged drain
•	Saint Louis alumni will hold their annual luau on Sunday
•	7th-graders to hold yard sale to benefit 9-week workshop
•	Six ocean-related programs to get $6.3M in federal funds
OTHER NEWS
•	Attorney: Victim was transgender inmate
•	Groups seeking new hearing on telescope
•	Obituaries
LEE CATALUNA
•	Poor guy doesn't have a clue