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BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN AND JIM DOOLEY - Two vendors involved in an illegal gambling operation that extends from Palolo Public Housing to stores and restaurants in Chinatown and throughout Oahu have confessed to Hawaii Reporter that they sold lottery numbers in a black market operation, but said their motivation was love of gambling, not making money. [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - A 10-page memo on the city's planned $5.3 billion elevated steel on steel rail project, created by the city's rail authority, and distributed by the Department of Planning and Permitting to city employees, has some council members and rail opponents questioning the city administration's motives. The May 8, 2012 document entitled [...]
BY JIM DOOLEY - The City Medical Examiner’s Office today released the results of an autopsy of Aaron Torres, the “Hawaii Five-0” crew member who died February 20 while being restrained by police at his Nanakuli home. “In my opinion, this 37-year-old man died as a result of asphyxiation during restraint by police officers when they [...]
Hawaii Republicans have a once in quarter century opportunity to elect a Republican to U.S. Senate. That was the rally cry from Former Governor turned U.S. Senate Candidate Linda Lingle to Hawaii Republicans at the Saturday GOP convention. “The chance to elect a United States Senator from Hawaii happens on average once every 25 years. [...]
BY JIM DOOLEY - A Teamsters Union supervisor on the “Hawaii Five-0” television production was asphyxiated by police at his Nanakuli home in February and was in a “cocaine-induced excited delirium” when he died, according to the City Medical Examiner’s office. Aaron “Spydah” Torres, 37, died of “mechanical asphyxia during police restraint” Feb. 20 and [...]
BY JIM DOOLEY - The February death of "Hawaii Five-0" driver Aaron Torres (see related story) is the latest link in a decades-long chain of incidents connecting Teamsters movie and television drivers here to drugs and violence. The Hawaii Five-0 show is no exception: Two Five-0 drivers are on federal parole after serving five-year prison [...]
BY Jeff Swicord | Washington - Federal prosecutors call mandatory minimum sentences one of their best tools in the war against illegal drugs. The sentences usually call for years of prison time depending on the quantity and type of drugs. Critics argue that such sentences take away judicial discretion from judges and are partially responsible for the explosion in [...]
International surfing officials and the Guinness Book of World records have officially confirmed a giant wave caught by a U.S. surfer off the coast of Portugal last November was the biggest wave ever ridden. The officials have awarded Hawaiian surfer Garret McNamara the Billabong Global Big Wave Awards prize after reviewing the feat - riding [...]
Mitt Romney, the presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee, drew rousing support Saturday at a conservative Christian university as he defended traditional marriage between a man and a woman. Romney, often viewed with skepticism by the most conservative ranks of the Republican party, stressed the importance of personal faith and commitment to families in a speech [...]
By Phillip Walter Wellman - Activists and opposition supporters in Bahrain have criticized a decision by the United States to resume arms sales to the troubled Gulf kingdom, saying it could encourage further human rights violations. The U.S. State Department announced last week that the United States would begin selling some military supplies to Bahrain to [...]
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