Reporting from Honolulu — Former Sen. Daniel Kahikina Akaka, the first Native Hawaiian elected to Congress who served for more than three decades, died Friday. He was 93. Akaka died in Honolulu after ...

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Former Democratic Sen. Daniel Akaka, who represented Hawaii in Congress for nearly four decades and was regarded as a champion of Native Hawaiian culture, died early Friday morning. He was 93. Jon ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Daniel Kahikina Akaka, the first Native Hawaiian to serve in the U.S. Senate and a fixture for decades on Capitol Hill, where he became known as the "ambassador of aloha," ...

HONOLULU — Sen. Daniel Kahikina Akaka, the first Native Hawaiian elected to Congress, has died. He was 93. Akaka died Friday in Honolulu after being hospitalized for several months, said Jon Yoshimura ...

Daniel K. Akaka, a Democrat from Hawaii who served on Capitol Hill for more than 35 in both houses of Congress and devoted himself to looking after the interests of his home islands, including ...

Former Sen. Daniel Akaka, a Democrat from Hawaii who served in Congress for more than three decades, died Friday, according to local media reports and lawmakers from Hawaii. He was 93. The first ...

Retired Democratic Senator Daniel Akaka, the only U.S. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry, will be honored tonight by the National Education Association as one of three recipients of the Human and ...

Hawaii Sen. Daniel Akaka announced late Wednesday he will retire next year, becoming the seventh senator and fifth Democrat to forgo another term in 2012. "After months of thinking about my political ...

(Reuters) - Former Senator Daniel Akaka, the first native Hawaiian in the U.S. Senate, who strove for recognition of Filipino veterans who fought with the United States during World War Two, died on ...

Rounds of heavy rain and storms could bring damaging winds and flash flooding to the area today. by CALEB JONES, Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Former Sen. Daniel Kahikina Akaka, the first Native ...