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Hit-and-run driver sought in Aiea incident
Honolulu police and CrimeStoppers are asking for the public’s help to find a suspect who fled after his truck hit a 14-year-old girl near the Pearlridge Center on March 3.
The man was driving a cream-colored truck and hit the girl as she crossed an access road near the First Hawaiian Bank at about 3 p.m., police said.
The driver stopped briefly, said "sorry," and drove away on Moanalua Road, police said.
The girl sustained injuries to her legs and hip, and was treated for bruises and abrasions, police said.
Brush fire busies Hawaii isle firefighters
Ten Hawaii County Fire Department companies, a volunteer company and two police units responded at 3:06 p.m. Tuesday to a brush fire in Waikoloa.
The fire eventually scorched eight acres of grass and brush on the Waikoloa side of Kawaihae Road between the 64-mile and 65-mile markers.
Police kept one lane of Highway 19 closed for several hours, fire officials said.
Firefighters brought the blaze under control at 4:17 p.m.
The cause of the fire was undetermined.
Three firefighters remained at the scene to monitor the situation during the night.
Man uses machete to threaten woman
Police arrested a 43-year-old Aliamanu man who allegedly threatened a 51-year-old woman with a machete Tuesday morning in Kalihi.
Police said the man and woman were arguing when the man brandished a machete at about 7:15 a.m. and made threatening remarks.
Officers found the man on Palama Street and arrested him on suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening, unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle and drug offenses.