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Hawaiʻi Island police are renewing their request for the public’s help in identifying a person whose partially decomposed body was found in a West Hawaiʻi public park last summer. Police hope someone will recognize a two-dimensional facial reconstruction from the skull recovered at the scene.

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Hawaiʻi Island police are asking for the public’s help in locating one or more persons responsible for four thefts of coffee parchment from two companies in Kaʻū. The first three thefts were from a property on Wood Valley Road. In those incidents, unknown persons removed 1,300 pounds of coffee parchment over the past two weeks.

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A 41-year-old Japanese national reported that he was walking to his hotel with friends at about 2:30 a.m. when he was attacked by the three suspects at the intersection of Aliʻi Drive and Likana Lane. They knocked the victim to the ground, punched and kicked him and stole his fanny pack.

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Work begins Monday Feb 11 to increase parking (by 17 stalls) in the Mo‘oheau Bus Terminal parking lot in Downtown Hilo. The mauka lane, between Mamo and Hāla‘i Streets, fronting Kamehameha Avenue, will be widened by 7-ft.

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Police have arrested a 55-year-old Hilo man for a murder that occurred in the Hilo Bayfront area late last year. Mark Anthony Whyne, who has no permanent address, was arrested at 5:25 p.m. Wednesday (February 6) on suspicion of second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a separate felony.

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Hawaii Electric Light Company advises customers of a power outage affecting the Paauilo area from Kukaiau to Kalopa this Friday morning, February 8, from 1:00 a.m. to approximately 5:00 a.m. to allow HELCO personnel to safely perform emergency substation repairs.

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No destructive widespread tsunami threat exists based on historical earthquake and tsunami data. However – earthquakes of this size sometimes generate local tsunamis that can be destructive along coasts located within a hundred kilometers of the earthquake epicenter. Authorities in the region of the epicenter should be aware of this possibility and take appropriate action.

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Hawaiʻi Island police have located 19-year-old Nhi Nguyen Tuyet Pham of Maui, who was reported missing. She was found in good health in Puna on Sunday (February 10).

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MEDIA RELEASE AT&T has named industry veteran Stefanie Ball as director of sales to oversee AT&T’s retail stores in Hawaii. Ball will be based in Mililani. Ball has worked for AT&T for 10 years in various positions in indirect and company-owned retail, most recently serving as an area retail sales manager, in which she led […]

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Special to Hawaii 24/7 by Bob McElroy | USAG Pohakuloa Public Affairs About 50 Marines and sailors planted more than 400 native Hawaiian trees and plants Jan. 19 at West Hawaii Veterans Cemetery as part of a community service day. The Marines and sailors, all volunteers, came from units that trained in January on the […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Kona Pacific Public Charter School is accepting applications for junior kindergarten through eighth grade for school year 2013 – 2014. The school will accept applications for this enrollment period through March 31, 2013, with the lottery selection for available spaces April 8. Applications received between April 1 and Oct. 15 will be included […]

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Starting Monday (Feb 11), the DLNR will begin paving repairs to the main parking areas at the Hapuna Beach State Recreation Area. Additional work will be completed at the Waialea section of the park. The project is expected to take 90 days to complete, or sooner.

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Hawaii 24/7 Staff In conjunction with National Drug Facts Week (Jan. 28-Feb. 3), the Hawaii Meth Project and it’s Teen Advisory Council member Mahealani Yoshida hosted “Blackout Meth Day” on Wednesday, Jan. 30 at Konawaena High School to raise awareness about the “Not Even Once” message. Students staged a lunch rally in the Flagpole Courtyard […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The state Public Charter School Commission has announced the appointment of its executive director, Tom Hutton. Hutton is a national authority on education law and policy and was a co-founder of a noted Washington D.C. charter school, Thurgood Marshall Academy. Hutton has served as in-house counsel for the National School Boards Association and […]

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