LOCAL

» University of Hawaii football coach Greg McMackin stepped down Monday following a 6-7 season. UH said it will pay him $600,000 of the $1.1 million he was due to earn in 2012. In four seasons under McMackin, the Warriors had a 29-25 record and went to two bowl games.

» More than 5,000 people, including seven surviving crew members of the USS Arizona, gathered Wednesday morning at Pearl Harbor to observe the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack that pushed the United States into World War II. The ceremony was one of the last official events for the 2,700-member Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, which is disbanding at the end of the year.

» A Vatican panel recommended Tuesday that Blessed Marianne Cope, a nun who cared for Hansen’s disease patients in Kalaupapa, be canonized as a saint. Her predecessor at Kalaupapa, Father Damien de Veuster, gained sainthood in 2009.

» School bus service on Oahu could be eliminated and students could pay 85 cents more for lunch, Department of Education officials said Tuesday, under Abercrombie administration cuts to DOE funding requests.

» Two Honolulu women who were denied a marriage license by the state Health Department sued the state Wednesday, saying Hawaii’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.

Mainland

» The U.S. Postal Service is pushing ahead with unprecedented cuts to first-class mail next spring that will slow delivery and eliminate the chance for stamped letters to arrive the next day. The estimated $3 billion in reductions are part of a wide-ranging effort by the cash-strapped Postal Service to quickly trim costs.

» A gunman killed a Virginia Tech police officer Thursday in a campus parking lot and then shot himself to death in an attack that shook the university nearly five years after it was the scene of the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.

» Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign continued to gain momentum last week as he sought to widen his lead over Republican rival Mitt Romney, with Gingrich saying Friday that Romney seemed desperate.

World

» European leaders closed a pivotal week Friday with an agreement in principle to join a new treaty that would force all but one European Union nation into common budget discipline and would empower EU courts to enforce the new rules. Great Britain was the lone holdout.

» Iranian television showed video Thursday of what it said was an unmanned surveillance American drone that the country’s armed forces recovered last weekend. Pentagon officials at first would not confirm whether the aircraft seen in the video was a U.S. drone.