LOCAL

» Virginia Hinshaw, chancellor of the University of Hawaii’s Manoa campus, announced Wednesday she will leave the $337,672-a-year job in May 2012 when her five-year contract ends. Hinshaw, 67, is credited with speeding campus repairs and attaining the maximum 10-year accreditation for UH-Manoa.

» Hilo won the Senior League World Series on Aug. 20 by defeating Tyler, Texas, 11-1 in Bangor, Maine. The tournament is for youth 14-16. Meanwhile, Lexington, Ky., beat Eastside of Oahu 10-0 on Aug. 20 in the U.S. championship game of the Cal Ripken World Series in Aberdeen, Md.

» U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa said Tuesday she will run for re-election to Hawaii’s 1st Congressional District seat, ending talk the Democrat would run for the open Senate seat of the retiring Daniel Akaka. Republican Charles Djou is also running.

» The Star-Advertiser sued Gov. Neil Abercrombie on Tuesday to compel the governor to release the names of candidates he has considered in appointing state judges. Abercrombie maintained that disclosing the candidates would hamper the state’s ability to attract qualified candidates.

» Vice President Joe Biden made a 36-hour stopover on Oahu last week on his way home from a trip to Asia. Biden told a crowd of about 1,000 at Marine Corps Base Hawaii on Thursday that they are "the greatest generation of warriors that the world has ever produced."

» UH-Manoa undergrads would see annual tuition and fees rise from the current $9,100 to $12,076 in 2016 under a proposal before the Board of Regents. UH will hold 11 public hearings before the regents make a decision this fall.

» The owners of Turtle Bay Resort are advancing a scaled-back expansion plan that would add a total of 1,375 hotel rooms and residential units. The previous plan called for 3,500 units.

» Kauai landowner Grove Farm said Wednesday it will block public access to a popular swimming hole at Kipu Falls, where five visitors have died in the past five years.

MAINLAND

» Weakened but unbowed, Hurricane Irene mowed across coastal North Carolina and Virginia on Saturday as it churned up the Atlantic Seaboard toward a region unaccustomed to such a major storm.

» Tens of millions of people from Georgia to Canada were jolted Tuesday by the strongest earthquake to strike the East Coast since World War II. Three weeks before the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, office workers poured out of New York skyscrapers and the Pentagon, relieved it was nothing more sinister than an act of nature.

WORLD

» Bolstered by the development of a new stealth fighter, an aircraft carrier and a record number of space launches over the past year, China is on pace to achieve its goal of building a modern, regionally focused military by 2020, according to a Pentagon report released Wednesday.

» Libyan rebels swept into Tripoli on Aug. 21 and consolidated their position throughout the week. Moammar Gadhafi continued to urge his supporters to resist, but the Libyan leader was nowhere to be found.

» Mexicans have endured plenty of horrific crimes during their country’s bloody five-year war against drug gangs, but the torching of a casino that killed at least 52 people Thursday was a shocking new low for many. President Felipe Calderon declared three days of mourning and labeled the attack on the casino in Monterrey the worst against civilians in the nation’s recent history.

THIS WEEK, AUG. 28-SEPT. 3

LOCAL

» Monday: The state Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a confirmation hearing for Circuit Court judge nominee Karen Tooko Nakasone, noon, State Capitol, Room 16.

» Friday: The Battleship Missouri Memorial will hold a free public observance to commemorate the 66th anniversary of the end of World War II. Shuttle buses to run from Pearl Harbor Visitor Center beginning at 7 a.m. "The End of the War in the Pacific" ceremony 8-9 a.m. Go to www.ussmissouri.com.

MAINLAND

» Monday: A presidential bioethics commission discusses its investigation of American scientists who deliberately infected prisoners and patients with syphilis in a mental hospital 60 years ago in Guatemala. The hearing runs through Tuesday in Washington.

» Thursday: Ground controllers will test NASA’s humanoid robot, "Robonaut," which is in residence at the International Space Station. The test will involve getting Robonaut to move its fingers, hands and arms for the first time.