Leila Fujimori

The nonpartisan primaries for the mayors of Maui and Kauai counties held no surprises, with the front- runners easily advancing Saturday, setting the stage for what are expected to be much tighter races in the Nov. 3 general election.

An Oahu Circuit Court trial judge is ordering the 12 jurors, who found on April 8 a Maui anesthesiologist guilty of attempted manslaughter rather than attempted murder as charged, to return to court for questioning regarding possible jury tampering.

Hawaii island avoided a direct hit from Hurricane Lala Saturday by about 30 miles, but the storm still wreaked havoc across the island before weakening as it moved toward Oahu, where officials warned residents to prepare for worsening conditions today.

The two medics stood on the top of their truck after it got caught in raging floodwater near Lala.

City officials have ordered Happy Days Chinese Seafood Restaurant to remain closed pending an investigation following the collapse of a large section of ceiling onto diners at the popular Chinese restaurant Tuesday inside a 91-year-old Kaimuki building.

The “doors-off” sightseeing helicopter tour that Patrick Haskell, 59, and Margaret Rimmler, 65, took March 26 along the picturesque Napali Coast on Kauai was supposed to be safe.

Chauntelle Acol had just turned 8 and was in the second grade in 1997 when her stepfather treated her and her older brother, Allan, to burritos and Sprite, sat them down on their back porch and told them that “Pepe was going to go live with family to learn Hawaiian stuff.”

The property owner of a 91-year-old Kaimuki building where a ceiling collapse on Aug. 18, injured patrons of a popular Chinese restaurant, has “begun repairing the wall along 11th Avenue that may pose a hazard,” Department of Planning and Permitting officials said.

Scott David DeAngelo, who jumped from the window of a burning fourth-floor Pearl City apartment after fatally stabbing his 33-year-old roommate in the neck, then fleeing in the roommate’s car, was convicted by a jury on April 12, 2024, of murder and arson.

Seven students from Hiroshima, Japan, folded origami paper cranes with their Hawaii counterparts and others Saturday morning at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial in memory of Sadako Sasaki, a young girl who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima but was stricken with leukemia from radiation and died 10 years later at age 12.