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This season, however, only one team enters the event ranked in the Top 25 - 25th-ranked Maryland.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_UNEMPLOYMENT_TAXES_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT WASHINGTON (AP) -- As if small businesses needed another reason not to hire, consider their latest financial burden: The cost of rising unemployment itself.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SAIPAN_SHOOTING_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) -- The gunman who killed four people and wounded nine in a shooting rampage on the Pacific island of Saipan was identified Sunday as a Chinese national believed to be employed at the shooting range where the deaths occurred.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HI_UNEMPLOYMENT_TAX_HAWAII_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT HONOLULU (AP) -- Hawaii lawmakers are thinking about ways to ease the burden of a giant business tax increase that will hit next year.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HI_STIMULUS_HAWAII_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT HONOLULU (AP) -- A joint panel of the state Legislature will examine the use of federal economic stimulus money in the state departments of health and human services.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HI_ENERGY_EFFICIENCY_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT HONOLULU (AP) -- Gov. Linda Lingle has released over $3 million to improve energy efficiency at state health centers and other Department of Health facilities.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FBC_HAWAII_SAN_JOSE_ST_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Backup quarterback Shane Austin threw for a career-high 299 yards and Leon Wright-Jackson scored on a 5-yard touchdown run in overtime to lift Hawaii to a 17-10 win over San Jose State on Saturday night.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HI_HAWAII_DEGREES_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT HONOLULU (AP) -- The University of Hawaii has approved three new bachelor of science degrees.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HI_GREEN_JOBS_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT HONOLULU (AP) -- The state has been awarded a $1 million labor market information grant.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HAWAII_TUNA_SHORTAGE_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT HONOLULU (AP) -- On New Year's Eve each year, thousands line up at fish counters across Hawaii to buy blocks of raw tuna, hoping that eating it will bring good luck and prosperity in the new year. This year, the long tradition may get a little more difficult to observe.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BKC_BYU_HAWAII_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT HONOLULU (AP) -- Coach Dave Rose won his 100th game at Brigham Young with Friday night's 83-65 victory over Hawaii.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HI_TEACHER_FURLOUGHS_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT HONOLULU (AP) -- Hawaii's top lawmakers want a vote of approval from teachers before the state puts them back to work and reopens public schools on furlough days.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HI_LEGISLATIVE_CUTS_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT HONOLULU (AP) -- The Hawaii House of Representatives will pay lower salaries to its staff beginning in January, but state Senate staff will keep their current pay.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HI_HAWAII_BUDGET_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT HONOLULU (AP) -- The Hawaii Government Employees Association is calling into question the basis on which state workers were chosen to be laid off recently and whether the layoffs were necessary.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HI_HAWAII_UNEMPLOYMENT_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT HONOLULU (AP) -- Hawaii's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate held steady at 7.2 percent in October, the same as it was in September.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HI_BOOK_AWARD_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT HONOLULU (AP) -- The American Folklore Society has awarded a book by the late Nona Beamer its 2009 Aesop Prize for Children's Folklore.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HI_MAILE_FARM_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT WAILEA, Hawaii (AP) -- A Hawaii company is starting the state's first large-scale commercial maile farm on the slopes of Mauna Kea.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HI_MAUI_SPY_CASE_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT HONOLULU (AP) -- The competency hearing of a Maui man accused of spying for China has ended with the prosecutor claiming the defendant is difficult to work with and makes wild exaggerations but is legally able to stand trial.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MED_SWINE_FLU_HIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT ATLANTA (AP) -- Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday....