HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 19 -- Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors issued the following news release on Sept. 18: Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors announced today that her department has joined the Hawaii State Ethics Commission in an effort to identify fraud, waste and abuse involving government funds. The Department of the Attorney General and the Hawaii State Ethics Commission collaborated on developing an informative website and establishing a phone number and email where membe more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 17 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on Sept. 16: Gov. David Ige today announced a new leadership team that will oversee the state's public health response to COVID-19 and the pre-travel testing program for COVID-19, which will start October 15. Pre-travel testing enables travelers to avoid a mandatory 14-day quarantine if they are tested no earlier than 72 hours before their flight arrives with an FDA-approved nucleic acid amplification tes more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 17 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on Sept. 16: Gov. David Ige has appointed Anne E. Perreira-Eustaquio as director of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR). Perreira-Eustaquio has been serving as DLIR's acting director since last month. Previously, she was the department's deputy director and has spent her career in various capacities in DLIR's unemployment division, most notably as administrator of the unemployment insu more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 17 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Gov. Ige has notified House and Senate leaders of his final veto list, which includes five of the six measures that were on the Intent to Veto list submitted to lawmakers on Aug. 31. VETO LIST: HB1523 Relating to the Department of Education Budget: This measure provides funding to the Department of Education utilizing Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act funding to purchase devices for sch more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 18 (TNSPer) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: University of Hawaii at Hilo Chancellor Bonnie D. Irwin announces the appointment of Dr. Karen Kopera-Frye as the new permanent dean of the College of Arts and Sciences following the UH Board of Regents meeting held virtually September 17, 2020. Kopera-Frye's appointment is effective December 28, 2020. "I am delighted to welcome Karen Kopera-Frye to the UH Hilo team!" said Irwin. "As an experienc more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Sept. 16 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on Sept. 15: Governor Phil Murphy today advised individuals traveling to New Jersey from states or territories with significant community spread of COVID-19 to quarantine for a 14-day period from the time of last contact within the identified state or territory. The updated advisory includes one additional territory, Puerto Rico-- with California, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, and Ohio remo more PR

ALBANY, New York, Sept. 16 -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-New York, issued the following news release on Sept. 15: Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that six states--California, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada and Ohio--have been removed from New York State's COVID-19 travel advisory. Puerto Rico has been added. The number of new cases, percentage of tests that were positive and many other helpful data points are always available at forward.ny.gov. "When other states and territories make more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 16 (TNSMon) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Inspired by the success of their $1 million donation in 2006 establishing the Barry and Virginia Weinman Fellowship to fund 10 medical students' educations, renowned philanthropists Barry and Virginia Weinman recently donated $1.56 million. This new gift will fund 10 full-tuition scholarships at the University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). The Weinmans, in partnersh more PR

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Sept. 17 (TNSRes) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: The greatest Christmas present Priscilla Grew received last year was an email. Priscilla and husband Ed were vacationing in Hawaii, escaping the respective winter climes of Nebraska and Maine, when it arrived in late December. It came from another married couple, Irina Galuskina and Evgeny Galuskin, whom Priscilla and Ed first met in 2010 at a meeting in Budapest. And it contai more PR