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* A federal appeals court denied an emergency request from the Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-Bulletin to let them shut down the Star-Bulletin next week. The three judges in San Francisco rejected an emergency motion by Gannett Pacific Corp., Liberty Newspapers and the Hawaii Newspaper Agency to stop enforcement of a preliminary injunction issued last week. That injunction by U.S. District Judge Alan Kay blocked the scheduled Oct. 30 closure of the 117-year-old Star-Bulletin while the courts consider whether a shutdown would violate antitrust laws, as the state of Hawaii claims.

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