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Aug. 31– Tomorrow is Labor Day– have any of youse seen my pinky ring? But the most amazing thing about this year’s breakfast is the free pass the three female candidates for statewide office– Marsha Coakley, Maura Healey and Deb Goldberg– are getting for their support from a different union, Teamsters Local 25. It’s outrageous enough, the way AFL-CIO boss Steve Tolman…

Aug. 31– Hardly a day goes by when retired Honolulu Police Department officer Stan Cook doesn’t think about the gunfight in Waipahu that left a 30- year-old unemployed father of three dead 20 years ago. The Aug. 31, 1994, morning shooting was the first time an officer shot with a semi-automatic weapon survived in Hawaii, according to Eddie Croom, a retired HPD…

The Hawaii Pacific men’s soccer team defeated Chaminade 2-0 in a nonconference match Saturday at Saint Louis Field. The Sharks scored in the 16th minute when Kona Gibson put a shot past Silverswords goalkeeper Bernd Buescherhoff. HPU plays BYU-Hawaii on Monday in Laie, and Chaminade will face the Seasiders in Laie on Sept. 13.

Aug. 31– The wind howled like a pack of ravenous wolves as we huddled in the darkness, listening while claws ripped into trees, splitting them into flying splinters. The nightmare we had dreaded, that our Treasure Coast had escaped for so many years, suddenly became our reality 10 years ago this Labor Day weekend as Hurricane Frances made landfall with a direct hit…

Aug. 30– ALBANY– A pall hangs over the housing units of the Seasons Christian Care Center at 2724 Ledo Road these days. Entrepreneur Mike Bowden paid $3.905 million for the 148 housing units and has indicated he wants to renovate them and rent them at market rate. “Mr. Bowden has said he’d like for everyone who’s currently living in those units to stay there,” Albany…

Vickie Moorehead Nolen, a Christian Writer/Evangelist, has completed her new book “When You Don’t Know What to Do”; it is a guidebook to redemption, inspiration, and the expansion of one’s Christian awareness. Speaking about her faith Nolen says: “Life is a continuous test of faith, personal strength, and one’s ability to endure whatever challenges it brings.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the leading cause of death for those 15-24 is motor vehicle crashes. Drive Safer, a New Jersey company devoted to improving safety among young drivers, thinks it has the answer. Drive Safer’s inaugural South Jersey Boot Camp is Sept. 21 at Susquehanna Bank Center on the Camden waterfront.

Aug. 31– Downtown Billings is gaining two new hot spots while another is leaving for the West End. Sandwich shop Pita Pit is planning a second location later this year at 2813 Second Ave. N., former site of Hippy Cowgirl. The Pita Pit is keeping its West End store at 2228 Grand Ave., which opened eight years ago, franchise owner Kristi Grob said.

Aug. 31– Twice a week, 4- year-old Tritt Gannon receives speech therapy in the Scottish Rite Speech and Language Clinic at Avera St. Luke’s Therapy Center. It’s awesome, “said his mother, Katelyn Gannon, who brings her son to Aberdeen from their Ipswich home. Tritt works with speech and language pathologist Shauna Klipfel.

Aug. 31– The only thing most people know about the University of Pittsburgh Applied Research Center in Harmar is that it has a building with the Pitt logo on a tower along Route 28. But there are more traditional companies such as Busy Beaver, the Allegheny Valley Credit Union and Dolan Insurance Agency. The University of Pittsburgh pays about $319,000 in property…

Aug. 31– Richard Shoemaker stood in line patiently for about 30 minutes Tuesday as other York residents posed questions and concerns to a panel of police executives. The NAACP- organized meeting lasted three hours and covered several topics related to improving relations between a diverse York community and the police. But the conversation started Tuesday by…

Aug. 31– WICHITA FALLS, Texas– With a saw blade no thicker than a hair, John Hatfield can create masterpieces of intricate woodwork one cut at a time, some taking as long as three months. And on Sept. 9, he’ll be 90 years old. Born in 1924, Hatfield grew up in Stony Gap, West Virginia, in a family of “mountaineers,” learning to live off the land and never waste anything.

The Birdsongs took their youngest of five to Lindsborg Community Hospital on Aug. 19. Doctors called for an air ambulance, and the toddler and his mother were flown by LifeWatch to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. Dustin drove the family pickup. After 7 1/ 2 hours in an operating room on the 22nd, doctors announced that nearly all of the fast-growing…

Aug. 31– WILKES-BARRE– A security breach in Community Health System’s databases has resulted in 4.5 million patients being affected and a class-action lawsuit by five patients in Alabama that were affected. Based in Franklin, Tennessee, CHS owns or leases 206 hospitals in 29 states, including: Wilkes-Barre General Hospital; First Hospital in Kingston; Regional…

Aug. 31– The state of Minnesota is holding lost money for Prince, U.S. Amy Klobuchar, state Human Services Commissioner Lucinda Jesson and a sports columnist so legendary there’s a statue of him outside the Target Field in Minneapolis. Sports personality Sid Hartman regularly shuffles into the Star Tribune.

Aug. 31– DINWIDDIE– Ninth- and 10th- graders at Dinwiddie High School will be going digital this year when they receive tablets for the new school year. Timothy Ampy, director of technology for Dinwiddie County Public Schools, said the school will be receiving 836 Asus Transformer Book T100 tablets for freshmen and sophomore students in order to begin phasing out…

Aug. 31– HARTFORD– When Jeff King was laid off from a construction purchasing job in 2007 two years after he graduated college, it was just the beginning of a major recession for the construction industry. His father, Allan, who was running both a hardware store in Hartford’s North End and a flooring installation company, was suffering from the same market forces…

Aug. 31– Dozens of area police officers in the past decade have made the split-second decision to pull the trigger and use lethal force against a member of the public. Nationwide, it happens on average more than once per day, according to FBI statistics. Seven local law enforcement officers were wounded in these shootings in the past decade, and Clark County…