Hanabusa’s fundraising reaches $770,000

Incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa raised $224,000 in the first quarter of 2012 as she prepares for an expected rematch with Republican Charles Djou for the seat they competed for two years ago.

Quarterly reports are due to the Federal Election Commission by today.

Hanabusa’s take for the January-March period brings her total for the election cycle to $770,000, and she has about $428,000 in cash on hand, according to her campaign.

Djou’s quarterly numbers were not available.

Neither is expected to spend much before the Aug. 11 primary — each is favored to win their party’s nomination to represent the 1st Congressional District, covering urban Oahu. It would be a rematch of 2010, when Djou was the incumbent after winning a special election in May of that year to fill the final months of the term vacated by Neil Abercrombie, who had resigned to concentrate on his run for governor.

Volcano woman charged in Hilo bicyclist’s death

Hawaii County police charged a 40-year-old Volcano woman Friday in a hit-and-run crash that left a bicyclist dead in Hilo.

Alison E. Taylor was charged with negligent homicide, failure to provide information or render aid, driving with a suspended license and inattention to driving. Bail was set at $8,500.

The bicyclist, a 20-year-old Hilo man, was struck from behind on Kinoole Street just before 7:30 a.m. Wednesday and pronounced dead at Hilo Medical Center. It was the 10th fatality this year for the county, compared with seven at this time last year.

County attorney named judge for family court

Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald has appointed Adrianne N. Heely, a deputy corporation counsel for Maui County, as a District Family Court judge on Maui.

Heely fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Geronimo Valdriz.

Heely was a deputy public defender on Maui and Oahu and a litigation associate at the law firms of Ashford & Wriston, Hisaka Goto Yoshida Cosgrove & Ching, and the law offices of Frank K. Goto Jr.

Heely received her law degree from the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law in 1998. She has been active in pro bono work for the community, according to a Judiciary news release. She sits on the Board of Examiners of the Hawaii Supreme Court and is the vice president of the Maui County Bar Association.

If confirmed by the state Senate, Heely will serve for six years.