LOCAL

» Tesoro Corp. announced Tuesday it plans to sell its Hawaii unit, which includes Hawaii’s largest oil refinery, 32 gas stations and 550 employees. Tesoro said the sale would be no sooner than the second half of 2012.

» Former city Managing Director Kirk Caldwell announced Thursday he will run for Honolulu mayor. Peter Carlisle defeated Caldwell by 4 percentage points in the 2010 mayoral special election.

» Hawaii did not reach most of the education-reform goals it set for the first year of its four-year, $75 million Race to the Top grant program, said a U.S. Department of Education report released Tuesday.

» The city conducted its first large-scale enforcement of the new sidewalk property-storage ban Tuesday, clearing homeless encampments at three parks in the Moiliili-McCully area.

» Fireworks-related injuries reported to Oahu emergency rooms dropped from 79 in 2010 to 15 during New Year’s Eve 2011, the first year of Oahu’s ban on all consumer fireworks except firecrackers, the state Department of Health said Monday.

» The state began Monday a $2.3 million project to pump 24,000 cubic yards of sand from offshore to widen 1,730 feet of Waikiki shoreline.

» The state and animal-welfare groups announced Wednesday rewards of up to $30,000 for information on the people who killed three Hawaiian monk seals, an endangered species, since November on Molokai and Kauai.

MAINLAND

» Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney eased to a solid win Tuesday in the New Hampshire primary, building on momentum from his first-place finish in the lead-off Iowa caucuses and establishing himself as the man to beat for the Republican presidential nomination.

» Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., made a rare public appearance Sunday, returning to Tucson for a candlelight vigil and other events one year after a shooting that wounded her and 12 others and left six people dead. Giffords must decide by May whether to seek re-election.

» The Marine Corps has identified the four Marines shown in a video urinating on what appear to be dead Taliban fighters, without releasing any names, and has named a lead investigating officer to decide whether they should be charged, Marine officials said Friday. The video emerged early Thursday and has incited a wave of anti-U.S. sentiment.

WORLD

» A Peruvian court on Friday sentenced Joran van der Sloot to 28 years in prison for the murder of a young woman, even as the family of American teenager Natalee Holloway sought to have him prosecuted in the United States over her disappearance in 2005.

» Tensions rising by the day, the Obama administration said Friday it is warning Iran through public and private channels against any action that threatens the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf. Iran has threatened to block the strategic Strait of Hormuz, angry over economic sanctions imposed by the West.

THIS WEEK, JAN. 16-21

LOCAL

» Monday: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade, 9 a.m. from Magic Island to Kapiolani Park, followed by Unity Rally at Kapiolani Park.

» Tuesday: The state Board of Education will discuss the teachers contract, legislative budget report, campus advertising, Race to the Top grant and other items, 8:30 a.m., Queen Liliuokalani Building, 1390 Miller St., room 404.

MAINLAND

» Tuesday: President Barack Obama welcomes the world champion St. Louis Cardinals to the White House.

» Thursday: Film director Spike Lee will hold a fundraiser in New York for the president.

WORLD

» Friday: Italian Premier Mario Monti will host French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel for a day of talks in Rome.