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An illegal migrant who has lived in the United States for more than 20 years is facing deportation after making a wrong turn into a California military facility. Ana Camero, 64, took a different route home from her dishwasher job at a La Jolla restaurant on April 7. After stopping at a gas station, she mistakenly drove onto the Marine Corps Depot in San Diego where she was asked for proper identification, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. Unable to provide ID, military officials called Border Patrol and the Mexican native was detained. 'If the individual cannot or does not...

In about two years from now, the Ford Mustang will be the last new car of its type still on the market – a fitting thing, given it was the first car of its type to come onto the market back in 1964. But it’s a sad communion – because it represents an end rather than a beginning. One as unnatural as Joe Biden’s hairline. The rivals whose existence the original 1964 Mustang prompted into existence – Chevy’s Camaro and the Dodge Challenger – are on their way out, again. Not because they aren’t selling but rather because forces conspire...

HILO, Hawaii — A community united to honor one of their own at the West Hawaii Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Aug. 18. Lance Cpl. Christopher Camero died July 12 after being injured in Helmand province, Afghanistan, serving with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, supporting combat operations during Operation Enduring Freedom. Against a vibrant green backdrop, nestled in the black lava field — a picturesque Hawaiian landscape — hundreds gathered to lay Camero to rest.

We thought he was “the first Big Island boy” to die in the Global War on Terror. The Honolulu mainstream media news reporters told us so and they told us “dozens of people” showed up to witness the passing of his hearse last week Thursday. Both turned out to be not the case. United States Marine Christopher Camero, a Waimea resident, was the first Big Island native to die from wounds received on the battlefield. He is the first to be buried at the West Hawaii Veterans Cemetery. And he is the youngest of the three men from our community...