The Marines of the Two-Seven were not even supposed to deploy to Afghanistan. Their original destination was Iraq, and when they were sent here in April as a stopgap measure to help an overwhelmed NATO force, the plan had been to spend the time mentoring Afghan national police.

A Navy investigation has concluded that a sailor who died on the nuclear missile-carrying submarine USS Nebraska in September in waters off Hawai'i ignored posted warnings.

A 47-year-old Hilo man died yesterday while in the custody of Big Island police.