Republicans believe they can make major gains, including winning the governorship for the first time since 1959. Inside the 25,000-member Hawaii Democratic Party, there's tension between liberals, who since 1994 have controlled the party apparatus and who want elected Democrats to more closely follow the party platform, and moderates, who see the liberals as ideologues. Fearing their race for party chairman could splinter the party, former Lt. This weekend tops fatal holidays-courtesy of drivers who drink Memorial Day weekend has replaced New Year's Eve as the deadliest holiday for drunken driving, according to national statistics and local police. Oahu now has more drunken-driving arrests and accidents during the Memorial Day weekend than any other holiday, said Officer Robert Medeiros of the Honolulu Police Department's Traffic Division.
More people are out of school and on the road.
More people are going to picnics and drinking. It starts early too, around 6 p.m. People begin drinking right away. There are 2.7 times more alcohol-related accidents on the day preceding Memorial Day than on a typical weekday, said Kim, who looked at state statistics from 1986 to 1993. Mighty Mo heads to Hawaii Residents of Bremerton, Wash., bid a reluctant farewell to the USS Missouri Saturday as the historic battleship began a month-long journey to its final resting place at Pearl Harbor. A Bremerton, Wash., group called Missouri on the Mainland filed a lawsuit Wednesday in a federal court in Tacoma, Wash., but failed to stop the ship's departure.