Local

» A city bus careened through a busy downtown intersection and smashed into a 170-year-old wall at Kawaiaha‘o Church on Monday. The driver was seriously injured; the out-of-service bus had no passengers, but it narrowly missed choral singers headed to a concert. The bus company said it appears the driver lost control after suffering a medical condition.

» Kumu hula and musician O’Brian Eselu died Tuesday at his Halawa home. He was 56. His halau, Ke Kai o Kahiki of Waianae, took first place overall at the Merrie Monarch Festival hula event in 2009 and 2010.

» A tiger shark 8 to 10 feet long bit the left foot of surfer Joshua Holley, 28, of Waialua on Tuesday at the Alligator Rock surf spot on Oahu’s North Shore.

» An Ewa Beach man, Michael P. Dahilig, was charged Thursday with manslaughter, arson and other offenses after a house fire March 30 that killed Pearl City resident Betty Hagihara, 97. Dahilig was also charged with other area burglaries.

» A U.S. House oversight committee on Thursday cited a 2010 music video made by a Honolulu-based General Services Administration employee, Hank Terlaje, in its investigation of lavish spending by the agency. The GSA had given Terlaje an award for the video, in which he sings, plays an ukulele and daydreams about all the spending he would do if he were GSA commissioner.

» Lunch wagons and other food trucks on Oahu will get to stay up to three hours at one spot, under a bill approved Tuesday by the City Council. Some vendors had been getting cited under the old 15-minute limit.

» Six Hawaii voters filed a federal lawsuit Friday saying the state’s political redistricting plan is unconstitutional because it excludes more than 108,000 military members, their families and university students.

Mainland

» Mitt Romney strengthened his hold on the GOP presidential nomination Tuesday, capturing victories in primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, D.C., and padding his lead over Rick Santorum.

» The Pentagon opened the door Wednesday for a death-penalty trial against five Guantanamo Bay captives charged with engineering the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 46.

» Oakland, Calif., was left reeling Monday after seven people were gunned down in one of the nation’s deadliest campus shootings in years. One Goh, 43, is being held without bail on suspicion of seven counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder and other charges after he opened fire at Oikos University, a small Christian school.

World

» Aung San Suu Kyi, the democracy advocate who struggled against Myanmar’s generals for years, assumed a new role in her nation’s political transition Sunday by winning a seat in parliament. Suu Kyi, a 1991 Nobel Peace laureate, will hold a public office for the first time but is joining a parliament still controlled by the military-backed ruling party.

» Fossil evidence from a trio of 125-million-year-old dinosaurs that were relatives of Tyrannosaurus rex indicates the giant creatures wore primitive feathers. The fossils are described in a study published in Thursday’s edition of the journal Nature.

THIS WEEK

Local

>> Tuesday: The state Board of Education’s Human Resource Committee will discuss linking pay to performance, teacher/principal performance evaluations and other items, 9:30 a.m., 1390 Miller St., room 404.
>> Wednesday: The Kauai County Public Works Department will hold community meetings on proposals to improve Kapahi, Opaekaa and Puuopae bridges. Sessions at 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., Kapaa Middle School.
>> Thursday: The University of Hawaii Board of Regents will discuss the UH quarterly financial report and other items, 9 a.m., Kapiolani Community College, Ohelo Building.
>> Thursday: The Kauai County Housing Agency will hold its “Parade of Projects” exhibition of government housing programs, 10 a.m., Lihue Civic Center, Piikoi Building.
>> Friday: The state Board of Land and Natural Resources will discuss amending Ahu o Laka Safety Zone rules in Kaneohe Bay to prevent entry while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and other items, 9 a.m., 1151 Punchbowl St., room 132.
>> Saturday: State and city agencies will hold a Mauka to Makai Expo with Earth-friendly family activities and entertainment, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Waikiki Aquarium. Free parking with shuttle service at Waikiki Elementary School.