I almost clicked into an odd Malware trap

[bananas]

10. Ok, I see what's happening.

That's a firefox warning when it can't connect securely to an https site.
The link I posted was just plain http not https, so you didn't get a warning.
Your original search probably returned the same link with https.

I just tried the link using https instead of http, and got the same warning with firefox:
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/community-bulletin/defense-contractor-plead-guilty

The site administrators probably messed up, this would be a serious problem for a bank or anyplace you log into with personal info, but here the site administrators are using the wrong domain name for the certificates they're using, they'll probably consider a low priority problem and not fix it, they may not even be aware of it.

This Connection is Untrusted

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Technical details

www.westhawaiitoday.com uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is only valid for the following names:
*.newsengin.com, newsengin.com

(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)

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