Mid-Pac taps educator from Maryland

Thomas E. McManus, a school administrator in Maryland, has been named high school principal of Mid-Pacific Institute, Mid-Pac announced Wednesday.

McManus will arrive in July, the school said.

McManus is currently head of the Upper School at St. Paul’s School in Brooklandville, Md. McManus will be accompanied by his wife, Micheline, who is head of the English department at the Friends School of Baltimore. They have three children, ages 13, 10 and 5.

"I am honored and pleased to be joining the Mid-Pacific Institute community as the upper school principal," McManus said in a news release. "Mid-Pacific Institute is a dynamic and forward-looking school with deep roots and a tradition of caring, student-centered education."

McManus will lead the 840-student high school. Mid-Pacific is a pre-kindergarten and K-12 school in Manoa Valley with an enrollment of 1,550 students.

6th Amendment limit exceeded, charges nixed

Animal cruelty charges against the woman who owns 16 horses confiscated by the Kauai Humane Society have been dismissed.

The Garden Island newspaper reported Wednesday a Kauai judge granted Lara Butler-Brady’s motion to dismiss the charges because prosecutors reached the six-month time limit for a speedy trial, but the state could still file new charges.

The humane society took away her horses in 2010, claiming the animals were thin or emaciated. The horses remain in protective custody at a Kauai shelter.

Woman awaits extradition in custody case

The stepmother of three children who were taken by their father to the Bahamas on a sailboat against custody orders is being held without bail in Hawaii and will be extradited to Montana.

Circuit Judge Greg Nakamura on Hawaii island ordered Angela Bryant, 45, Wednesday to be held without bail, pending extradition on charges of parenting interference, Hawaii County Deputy Prosecutor Jason Skier told the Associated Press.

Skier said Nakamura approved his request to reconsider Bryant’s bail amount, which had been previously set at $250. Montana authorities have until June 13 to take her back.

Her public defender, Michael Ebesugawa, could not immediately be reached for comment.

The children’s father, James Ray Bryant, 44, pleaded guilty earlier this week in Montana to a felony count of parenting interference after the children’s mother said he failed to return them under a custody agreement.

The abduction touched off a months-long search last year.