Kauai Fire Department investigators suspect arson as the cause of two recent brush fires, including last week’s Kokee blaze on Pokii Ridge, which burned an estimated 1,600 acres and triggered evacuations and road closures.
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A suspect in three bank robberies with a lengthy criminal record was shot and killed by police at 4 a.m. Friday after an hours-long standoff.
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Scott David DeAngelo, who in 2022 escaped by jumping from a burning fourth-floor Pearl City apartment that he set on fire after fatally stabbing his roommate in the neck, has now escaped a possible sentence of life without parole.
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The sentences will run concurrently and not consecutively as Deputy Prosecutor Kyle Mesa had asked the court to do to protect the public.
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Circuit Judge Ronald Johnson sentenced a Honolulu police officer today to community service and a deferral of his no contest plea for committing insurance fraud, a Class C felony.
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Circuit Judge Shanlyn Park expressed sympathy Tuesday not just for the 45-year-old murder victim and his family, but for the 25-year-old Wahiawa man she was sending to prison for life with the possibility of parole in the Nov. 19, 2019, fatal stabbing of a family friend.
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The body of one person who had been aboard the four-seater Robinson R44 helicopter owned by Aloha Helicopter Tours LLC was found by Kauai Ocean Safety lifeguards.
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Police would not identify which of the three individuals was found Thursday.
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Abigail Charity Bernstein and her two young sons reportedly boarded a boat with its captain in October 2022 at the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor and have never been seen or heard from since, the FBI says.
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A former Oahu schoolteacher — initially discovered by FBI agents to be exchanging messages containing child pornography with a Philadelphia teacher — was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old former student and promoting child abuse.
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Hawaii County officials have designated a parking lot as a temporary resting area for homeless people who occupy an area in and around a storm drain in downtown Hilo.
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Emergency Medical Services said the female pedestrian and the moped driver were both taken to the hospital in serious condition.
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Aaron Tuitelapaga, found guilty Friday of second-degree murder and other charges for killing a man working as security at an illegal Ala Moana area game room, could be facing a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
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July 6, 2024
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The jury found Aaron Tuitelapaga guilty of murder in the killing of Sausau Togiai III on Aug. 12, 2020.
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This week marks the start of Hawaiian Electric’s program of proactively shutting off power in specified areas to protect the public if and when there is a high risk of wildfires on all the islands it serves.
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June 29, 2024
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Rescuers responded to a 10:01 a.m. 911 call regarding a male hiker who fell about 100 feet off the Puu Kalena Trail in Wahiawa.
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An Oahu grand jury Wednesday indicted a 33-year-old man on one count of second-degree attempted murder in the June 15 stabbing of a 32-year-old Walmart employee outside the Keeaumoku Street Walmart store.
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An Oahu Circuit Court judge found Anthony F. Pereira II guilty as charged Tuesday of second-degree murder in the June 10, 2016, shooting death of his 66-year-old mother, Barbara Pereira, at his home in Maili.
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Pereira testified that he shot his mother in the leg on June 10, 2016, but said he couldn’t remember that he shot her twice in the head with a semiautomatic rifle.
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A former Corrections Division training officer took the stand Friday at his murder and kidnapping trial and admitted to shooting his 66-year-old mother but cannot recall firing two shots to her head.
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A 56-year-old Waianae woman testified Thursday to the harrowing details of being held captive in June 2016 for three days in the house of a Maili man she had just met.
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