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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 [...]
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 [...]
BY JIM DOOLEY - The first time Honolulu police officer Craig Clissold was accused of peeping into the home of a Hawaii Kai neighbor, he was allowed to enter a deferred plea of no contest that resulted in eventual erasure of the charge against him. Not this time, prosecutors say. Clissold, now retired from HPD, was [...]
Two state appellate judges, two Circuit Court judges and a law school professor have been nominated to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Hawaii Supreme Court. The Hawaii Judicial Selection Commission announced today it nominated the five candidates to fill a vacancy on the high court when Associate Justice James Duffy reaches the mandatory retirement [...]
The Departments of Health and Agriculture launched an investigation into whether pesticides are being used incorrectly at several Thai and Sweet Basil farms in Kunia and Ewa on Oahu. The answer was yes: After testing 10 basil samples from 5 produce distributors, 7 of the 10 samples tested positive for the presence of one or [...]
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