An 18-month-old girl's hand was cut off after it got entangled in a conveyor belt at a chocolate factory she was touring with her family. The girl's left hand was caught Saturday in a belt at the Menehune Mac Factory Gift Center but by the time firefighters arrived, employees had already bandaged the girl and retrieved her hand.

Hawaii is looking to reinstate a animal as its state fish. The humuhumunukunukuapuaa, or humuhumu for short, lost its official title as state fish over a decade ago, yet new legislation has passed to bring it back to prominence.

A court awards $5. 6 million to the family of a man who had a screwdriver shaft implanted in his spine by an orthopedic surgeon. The jury found Dr. Robert Ricketson, 48, negligent after he attached the stainless steel screwdriver to Arturo Iturralde's spine in 2001.

At the first thought of Hawaii, a snowstorm rarely comes to mind. However, the access road to the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island was forced to close, according to reports, due to snow.

Bible belters are among the most generous to the unfortunate, while New Englanders are the least likely to contribute to charities, according to the Catalogue of Philanthropy's Generosity Index. For the fourth year running, New Hampshire was the most scrooge-like, with Mississippi remaining the most generous.