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Guam senators question kids' cultural show cost

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:32:28 -0400

HAGATNA, Guam - Guam senators are questioning spending $127,000 of taxpayer money to create a children's cultural television show.

Survivors sue StarKist parent firm over drowning

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:24:23 -0400

HAGATNA, Guam - The parent company of StarKist Tuna is being sued by the family of a man who drowned aboard a company fishing boat three years ago.

Guam gambling machines licensed amid legal fight

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:54:28 -0400

HAGATNA, Guam - Guam's tax department has renewed licenses for more than 200 gambling machines despite an ongoing fight over whether the devices are legal.

Guam sees increase in South Korea visitors

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:31:05 -0400

HAGATNA, Guam - The Guam Visitors Bureau says more than 180,000 people from South Korea visited the island last year and the number could jump to 200,000 in 2013.

5 from China suspected of illegally entering Guam

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:42:39 -0400

HAGATNA, Guam - A group of five Chinese nationals are suspected of using a small inflatable boat to illegally enter Guam.

Guam governor, senators propose hospital bailout

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:15:52 -0400

HAGATNA, Guam - Guam Gov. Eddie Calvo and four territorial senators have proposed a bailout for the island's only civilian hospital.

Guam moves forward with duty-free contract

Fri, 31 May 2013 12:05:01 -0400

HAGATNA, Guam - The agency that oversees the Guam airport is moving forward with a duty-free retail concession contract.

Scripps National Spelling Bee: Arvind Mahankali is 2013...

Fri, 31 May 2013 09:12:14 -0400

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. - By BARTHOLOMEW SULLIVAN

Scripps National Spelling Bee: 42 spellers advance...

Wed, 29 May 2013 19:49:13 -0400

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. - By BARTHOLOMEW SULLIVAN

Scripps National Spelling Bee: Vocabulary a new focus of...

Tue, 28 May 2013 17:47:31 -0400

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. - By BARTHOLOMEW SULLIVAN

Guam man convicted of sexually assaulting 3 girls

Tue, 28 May 2013 17:44:56 -0400

HAGATNA, Guam - Prosecutors intend to seek a maximum sentence of life without parole for a Guam man convicted of sexually assaulting three girls.

Scripps National Spelling Bee: Universities join newspapers...

Mon, 27 May 2013 16:50:38 -0400

By DON WADE - When what is now the Scripps National Spelling Bee began in 1925, it lacked, dare we say, the buzz it has today. No television, no Twitter and no way to know there would one day be a wildly popular movie, "Akeelah and the Bee."

Scripps National Spelling Bee: Make 'em spell! And make 'em...

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:55:45 -0400

By CAROLYN McATEE CERBIN - Chuckles rippled through the audience.

US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2,091

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:41:23 -0400

As of Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at least 2,091 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.