Honolulu paramedics treating heart attack victims can now wirelessly transmit vital data ahead of the ambulance

MIDWAY MIRACLES AND MYSTERIES, lecture by Midway expert Alan Lloyd, 2 p.m. Monday and 7 p.m. Tuesday at Pacific Aviation Museum — Pearl Harbor; find out how Pearl Harbor's second bombing, the Doolittle raid, the Aleutian attack and the Battle of Midway relate; Laniakea Cafe will be open for dinner before the lecture, as will the museum shop; $14, children $7 (Hawai'i resident and military $10 and children $5), museum members free. Reservations required: 441-1008 by May 28. Information: www.pacificaviationmuseum.org.

MILWAUKEE — Republican John McCain's estimate of U.S. troop levels in Iraq touched off squabbling with Democrat Barack Obama yesterday, the latest turn in the presidential rivals' escalating disagreement over the war.

Accusations by the New York attorney general that the flayed cadavers in a traveling anatomy display are those of executed Chinese prisoners will not prevent the opening of the exhibit at Ala Moana Center in two weeks, organizers said yesterday.

Four years after the City Council voted to allow loft apartments in Chinatown for the first time since World War II, a new study on why so few residential lofts have actually been created recommends more incentives for landowners, including property tax exemptions.

Collections of delinquent traffic fines in Hawai'i have tripled since November, officials said yesterday.

Five people have been indicted on federal charges in a scheme in which they allegedly profited from home mortgage loans

NEW YORK — Like the island where so much of the action takes place, "Lost" giveth and it taketh away. Flashes of illumination for its viewers are routinely undone the next moment by bewilderment.

WASHINGTON — The Army recorded 115 soldiers' suicides in 2007, the highest total since it started counting in 1980, the service announced yesterday. That's more than twice the 52 suicides in 2001.

Talmage Nakamoto, calm and businesslike, wasted no time yesterday at the Scripps National Spelling Bee.