The Hawai'i football team departed for San Jose, Calif., yesterday afternoon still unsure if it would have its quarterback and top receiver available for Saturday's game against the Spartans.

In a basketball game that was a blur of Bruin fastbreaks, the University of Hawai'i women's basketball team trailed by double digits early last night and UCLA barely missed triple digits at the end.

Slightly fewer home foreclosure cases in Hawai'i were begun in the third quarter compared with the second quarter, but the number of pending foreclosures and the number of delinquent mortgages that aren't in foreclosure yet both rose.

HAWAII — The state is moving ahead with plans to lay off most of the current Film Office staff, though it has come up with funding to save one of the four positions that were to be cut.

As a sophomore, Baldwin's Ro Wilson high jumped 6 feet, 3 inches to win the event at the Maui Interscholastic League track and field championships.

They are from different schools in different divisions. Yet, Leilehua's Kamana Akagi and 'Aiea's Phillip Madriaga have been brought together by another aspect that high school athletics provides: citizenship.

The "Aloha Prep Bowl" football all-star doubleheader is set for Dec. 12 at Aloha Stadium. The 19th Annual Hawai'i Union Builders Goodwill Senior Bowl will kick off the doubleheader at 4 p.m., featuring 100 local all-stars in an East vs.

Consumer spending has declined significantly this year, but it hasn't shown up so far in the amount of vacant retail space on O'ahu. Empty retail space this year is projected to stand at 3.47 percent, up only slightly from 3.23

OIA CHAMPIONSHIPAt Radford, 1 p.m.

The Vans Hawaiian Pro turned into a model victory for Alana Blanchard yesterday. Blanchard, who is from Hanalei, Kaua'i, scored the most significant victory of her young career by winning the Vans Hawaiian Pro women's surfing contest.

Hawaii Medical Center's shareholders would lose their ownership stake and its two hospitals operated by a nonprofit corporation under a plan being put forth by unsecured creditors of the bankrupt company.

Maybe it's a good thing that Brigham Young is not so much of a heated rival of the University of Hawai'i any more.

LOS ANGELES — Mall operator General Growth Properties, which filed the largest U.S. real estate bankruptcy case in April, said its lenders have agreed to restructure some $8.9 billion in shopping mall mortgage loans.

RICHMOND, Texas — Michelle Wie is gone, putting all the attention on Lorena Ochoa's player of the year fight with Jiyai Shin at the LPGA Tour Championship. Wie withdrew from the season-ending event yesterday because of a sprained left ankle,

MARIETTA, Pa. — Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it.

Ricky Williams is 32 and far from done. And even without Ronnie Brown, the once written-off Miami Dolphins are back in the playoff picture. Williams rushed for 119 yards and scored three touchdowns, and the Dolphins beat the Carolina Panthers,

Defending champion Bruce Irons of Kauai heads the prestigious list of invitees for this season's Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau big-wave surfing contest at Waimea Bay. The list of 28 invitees and 24 alternates was announced this week.

The slow pace of the global economic recovery means Hawai'i can't expect a speedy rebound either, according to a new forecast. The report from the University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization says some smaller Asian economies are leading a rebound,

East Oahu Red defeated JAIA in five set to win a junior volleyball tournament, featuring a team from Vancouver, Canada and three local teams.

HILO — Big Island Mayor Billy Kenoi's proposal to sell 737 acres of land to help balance the county's budget has been approved by the Hawaii County Council.