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This 1980s photo provided by the family shows Gordon Sakamoto, former Associated Press bureau chief in Honolulu, at work in the UPI bureau in Honolulu . Sakamoto died at his Honolulu home Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, after heart failure and a long battle with chronic kidney disease, his son Kyle Sakamoto said. He was 82 years old. Honolulu-born Sakamoto was named chief of bureau in 1994, overseeing AP operations in Hawaii and the Central Pacific. He joined the AP after working for five years as a marketing specialist for the state of Hawaii and had worked for UPI for 27 years in San Francisco and Hawaii. (Courtesy Sakamoto Family via AP)

Former AP Hawaii bureau chief Gordon Sakamoto dies at age 82

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press

Former UPI executive sports editor Joe Carnicelli dies at 75

Associated Press

A sign advertising a home for sale peaks from a mound of snow, Monday, Feb. 23, 2015, in Marlborough, Mass. Real estate agents have found that purchase closings are being held up because of the heavy snowfall in the Boston area. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)

Boston-area entrepreneur sells snow by the pound nationwide

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Apple gives green light to marijuana app, Massroots

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

North American porcupine (Wikipedia)

Porcupine with record of winning ‘prognostication’ picks Seahawks to snag Super Bowl

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Killeen police investigate the death of a Fort Hood soldier who was found dead at his Killeen, Texas, home on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/The Killeen Daily Herald, Eric J. Shelton) ** FILE **

Big Brother grows: 50 police agencies use military radar that lets them peer into homes

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

This image made available on Thursday, Jan. 8. 2015, by Britain's MI5 Security Service shows an undated image of Andrew Parker, the director general of Britain's domestic security service MI5. (AP Photo/MI5 Security Service)

MI5 refuses agents with tattoos: ‘Make you unsuitable for this role’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

The New York Post confirmed Friday that its main Twitter account had been hacked.

New York Post, UPI Twitter accounts hacked, tweet fake ‘WWIII’ scare

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman held a press conference on a couple that took thousands of dollars in welfare benefits while the husband claimed to be a Scottish aristocrat and broadcast executive. (AP Photo/ The Star Tribune, Richard Sennott)

Colin Chisholm, Minnesota millionaire, gets 21 months prison time for bilking $167K in welfare

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this file photo taken Thursday, June 19, 2014, Islamic State group militants stand with a captured Iraqi army Humvee at a checkpoint outside Beiji refinery, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

Islamic State touts $250M year-end budget surplus; opens bank

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this March 20, 2014, photo released by Lake Superior State University, Steve Gregory, left, and David Drzewiecki, both with Lake Superior State University's physical plant department, eye a snowman effigy LSSU will burn in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. (AP Photo/Lake Superior State University, Tasha Cook)

Michigan university votes on ‘banished’ words: ‘Swag,’ ‘foodie,’ cra-cra,’ ‘hack’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Republican Dallas Woodhouse and his Democratic brother Brad Woodhouse, two pundits, were arguing on a recent Washington Journal television broadcast when their mother called in. (Screengrab from C-SPAN/YouTube)

Mom calls into C-SPAN to scold on-air pundit sons: Stop arguing

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington in this Sept. 17, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Rand Paul’s bill seeks to moot Obama’s executive amnesty

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Cheryl Shapiro displays the Hanukkah gift wrap with a swastika-like pattern she found at Walgreens in Northridge, Calif., Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. The wrapping paper has been recalled from stores nationwide. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Daily News, Andy Holzman)

Walgreens pulls wrapping paper woven with Nazi swastikas

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

(Screen grab from Twitter/UK Cop Humour)

British police mocked for cruiser misspelling: ‘POLCE’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Fugitive WikLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks via Skype at the South By SouthWest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, Saturday, March 8, 2014. Assange's appearance underscores the increasing attention that the technology industry is paying to issues of online privacy, security and surveillance. (AP Photo/Barbara Ortutay)

U.S. selling spy gear, technology to despotic nations: report

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks to reporters after voting at Briarwood Elementary School in Bowling Green, Ky., on Election Day Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Austin Anthony)

Rand Paul taunts Hillary Clinton on Twitter: She’s ‘yesterday’s news’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Rescuers and medics land by helicopter at a nuclear site in Marcoule, France, on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011, after an explosion at a plant that treats nuclear waste. (AP Photo/Claude Paris) ** FILE **

Mystery drones soar over French nuclear plants

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Beer is displayed at Beverage Baron in Barre, Vt., in this Sept. 11, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/J.M. Hirsch)

Minneapolis firm awards beer to workers who fill out their timecards

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A signed copy of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" was sold at auction in Ludlow, Shropshire, in 2009 for $32,600. (History Hunters Auction)

Hitler’s personal ‘Mein Kampf’ copy hits the auction block

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times