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WASHINGTON – A former top aide to California Republican Rep. John Doolittle traveled to Puerto Rico on a trip paid for by Jack Abramoff‘s lobbying firm, records show. House rules prohibit lawmakers and staff from taking trips paid for by registered lobbyists or lobbying firms. David G. Lopez was Doolittle’s …

HONOLULU – A crowd of mostly baby boomers rocked an otherwise silent volcano, dancing and singing to the first concert inside Diamond Head crater in nearly 30 years. “The crater is our Woodstock in Hawaii,” screamed 49-year-old Eddie Knoebel, who once joined wild teenagers for popular crater concerts in the …

NEW YORK – Surfing the Web at work is equivalent to reading a newspaper or talking on the phone, an administrative law judge said in recommending the lightest possible punishment for a city worker accused of disregarding warnings to stay off the Internet. The case involved Toquir Choudhri, a 14-year …