HONOLULU (AP) — Three Honolulu police officers appeared in court on Friday to face charges in connection with the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old Micronesian boy, the first cases of their kind against law enforcement in the city in more than 40 years. The officers were not asked to enter ...
HONOLULU (AP) — A pilot said he was was performing a stunt in his single-engine, two-seat plane when he lost power and crashed into the ocean in Hawaii. Pilot Claus Hansen, 57, was not injured in the Thursday crash off Oahu. He told KITV that he sent a message on the radio just before ...
The Associated Press Ex-Honolulu managing director target in US probe HONOLULU — A legislative aide to a Honolulu city councilman is on paid administrative leave after receiving a letter from federal authorities informing him he’s a target in an investigation. Roy Amemiya was ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Dozens of baby squid from Hawaii are in space for study. The baby Hawaiian bobtail squid were raised at the University of Hawaii’s Kewalo Marine Laboratory and were blasted into space earlier this month on a SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space ...
HONOLULU (AP) — The Honolulu Police Department says it is making changes to be more transparent and address use of force tactics. The department will hold news conferences within 24 hours of all shootings involving officers, implement training changes including emphasizing de-escalation ...
HONOLULU (AP) — A police officer was charged with murder and two others were charged with attempted murder in connection with the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy, Honolulu prosecutors said Tuesday. It comes after a grand jury last week declined to indict the officers in the shooting ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Two Hawaii health department inspectors showed up at an Oahu home unannounced after a complaint and found it was operating an adult care facility without a license, leading to a fine of more than $800,000. The $828,000 fine against Island Promise Homes LLC announced ...
HILO (AP) — The Hawaii Department of Transportation has indefinitely closed one of two runways at the Hilo International Airport after the lights went out. Department spokesman Jai Cunningham said the runway went dark on Friday and airport personnel are trying to determine the cause, the ...
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER The Associated Press HONOLULU — Grand jurors have declined to indict three Honolulu police officers in a shooting that killed a 16-year-old boy. The Honolulu prosecuting attorney’s office said it presented evidence to a grand jury Wednesday seeking ...
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER The Associated Press HONOLULU — A class-action lawsuit on behalf of Hawaii inmates says the state has failed to protect people from COVID-19 outbreaks in unsanitary jails. Nearly half of the people in Hawaii custody have contracted the virus, and five out ...
HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. military gave an “all-clear” after an unspecified threat prompted an hours-long lockdown of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on Tuesday. A military news release didn’t elaborate on the “potential incident” that required the base to close its entrances and ...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A kayaker hoping to paddle solo from California to Hawaii was rescued six days after he set out by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter amid rough seas and high winds. Cyril Derreumaux endured several problems with his 23-foot kayak, but when he lost his sea anchor he ...
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME The Associated Press HONOLULU — Lindsay Myeni and her South African husband moved to Hawaii, where she grew up, believing it would be safer to raise their two Black children here than in another U.S. state. Three months after they ...
CALEB JONES The Associated Press HONOLULU — An earthquake at an active deep sea volcano off Hawaii island but didn’t appear to have any impact on other nearby volcanoes and no significant damage was reported. The U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the ...
WAIMEA, HI (AP) — An aerial search for a Nebraska man missing in Hawaii has been suspended, but volunteers planned to continue searching for him on the ground Tuesday. Samuel Joseph Martinez, 23, was studying microbiology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln before he flew to the Hawaiian ...
DELTA, Utah (AP) — The remains of a Navy sailor who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor have returned to Salt Lake City, and a ceremony at his home in Delta is scheduled, officials said. Navy Radioman 3rd Class Theodore Q. Jensen, 22, of Delta was identified in December 2020 using ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Firefighters in Hawaii rescued an 11-year-old girl who was injured while hiking on a mountain range east of Honolulu on Monday. The Honolulu Fire Department responded to a report of a young girl who fell while hiking with family on the Wiliwilinui Ridge Trail around 9:30 ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Federal and state officials in Hawaii are investigating the suspicious deaths of two endangered monk seals on the island of Molokai. The seals were found dead on April 27 on the west side of Molokai, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Thursday. Examinations revealed ...
By CALEB JONES The Associated Press HONOLULU — “Ghost nets” from unknown origins drift among the Pacific’s currents, threatening sea creatures and littering shorelines with the entangled remains of what they kill. Lost or discarded at sea, sometimes decades ago, this fishing ...
HONOLULU (AP) — A magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck Sunday beneath the south flank of Kilauea Volcano on the island of Hawaii, the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported. The earthquake was centered about 9 miles south of the volcano, at a depth of about 5 miles, ...