WASHINGTON - Recovering from war wounds that left him with one arm, Danny Inouye wanted a cigarette and needed a light. The nurse at the Army hospital in Michigan threw a pack of matches on his chest.

Sen. Daniel Inouye, a World War II hero, pioneer for the state of Hawaii and the second-longest serving senator in American history, died Monday at the Walter Reed Medical Center after fighting ...

She headed two major foundations, established a Japanese-American museum and, the widow of a senator, quietly helped lift Detroit out of bankruptcy. By Katharine Q. Seelye A new telescope in Hawaii ...

The late Daniel Inouye didn't ask for much in his last days, only that Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa would fill his seat in the Senate until the 2014 election. On Wednesday, Hawaii Governor Neil ...

Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye has died at the age of 88, The Washington Post's Ed O'Keefe reports. The Democrat was hospitalized this weekend for respiratory complications. Inouye was an Army veteran of ...

Sen. Brian Schatz will square off against Rep. Colleen Hanabusa in a Democratic primary that will likely determine the Senate seat for Hawaii in 2014. (AP File) On Dec. 18, a letter from Sen. Daniel ...

WASHINGTON -- Recovering from war wounds that left him with one arm, Danny Inouye wanted a cigarette and needed a light. The nurse at the Army hospital in Michigan threw a pack of matches on his chest ...