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The guided missile destroyer USS Chafee is scheduled to return home to Pearl Harbor on Monday. Associated Press. Hawaii-based Marines for the first time yesterday began using robotic support vehicles designed to trail behind squads in unfriendly terrain to carry supplies and wounded Marines with no one at the wheel. Star-Advertiser. The return of the military’s biennial Rim of the Pacific Exercise this month has environmentalists concerned. Garden Island. Lt. Col. Christopher Faurot likened the Air Force’s new F-22 Raptor fighter jet to the io, the hawk that has soared over Hawaii’s forests and grasslands for thousands of years. Associated Press. Four years after Molokai veterans began the process of building a veterans center, a group of fed-up veterans traveled to Maui last week to protest further hold-ups in obtaining their building permit. Molokai Dispatch. Sunday night the Honolulu Symphony society board of directors announced its best and final Offer has been rejected by the musicians union. KHON2. On Friday, the musician’s union met with the symphony’s board of directors to offer its second counter proposal since negotiations began in April. KITV. Lax management and equipment problems have created a state Sheriff Division that could jeopardize public safety, a scathing audit concludes. Star-Advertiser. We hear a lot of talk about the ballooning federal deficit. But what about the financial commitments the Hawaii state government has made to public employees? Civil Beat. International Alzheimer’s conference sails to Hawaii for first time. Hawaii News Now.