Waipahu News

WAIPAHU - Alan Bartolome used to go to the Waipahu community swimming pool, but he hasn't been there now for more than four years.

Folks in central Oahu finally get back a neighborhood establishment. After being closed for four years, the Waipahu District Park pool reopened on Friday.

The State Department of Transportation will implement roving single-lane closures on Kamehameha Highway in both directions from Farrington Highway in Waipahu to Wilikina Drive in Wahiawa from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. today for pothole repairs.

A three-time drunk driver accused of killing a motorcyclist in a vehicular collision last year balked at entering a guilty plea when he appeared in court this morning.

The Honolulu Police Commission is aiming to select a police chief at its meeting Wednesday, commission Chairwoman Christine Camp said yesterday.

The Hawaii Public Housing Authority is considering a radical solution to decades of backlogged repairs, aging projects and limited resources: selling properties or units and ending state oversight of public housing.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, in a telephone news conference yesterday, again scolded Hawai'i for its decision to furlough teachers for 17 school days and said the move could hinder the state's ability to garner competitive federal grant money.

City ambulance crews took seven people from Waipahu Intermediate School to Hawaii Medical Center-West today following complaints of a strong smell of gas.

Mobi PCS said it has activated cellular sites in Waipahu and Makaha that enhance its voice and data coverage in those areas.

Fire officials have evacuated Waipahu Intermediate School due to reports of a noxious odor.

The lines of people waiting each week for a bag of grocery staples at island food pantries have doubled in the past year.

It took only four minutes for thieves to crash a Jeep Wrangler into the glass doors of the Cyberlife PC store on Liliha Street and grab 20 laptop computers.

A record 52 O'ahu public and private high schools will receive a share of the $100,000 raised from the Times Supermarkets and Kraft Foods in Hawai'i's annual "Shop and Score" program that enables schools to purchase athletic equipment.

A 37-year-old Ewa Beach man was arrested yesterday after a woman told police he threatened to kill her while she was driving on the freeway last week.

William Cope Moyers says he did not know what it meant to be addicted when alcohol became his "new best friend" as a college freshman and he began using other drugs.

Dozens of parents and educators appealed to state senators yesterday to take action - any action - to find the estimated $60 million to $85 million it would take to cancel teacher furlough days.

The City Council yesterday passed three resolutions the city needs if it's going to begin construction on a planned $5.5 billion rail transit project in December.

A witness in state protective custody said he watched murder defendant Patrick W. Deguair Jr.

The state Senate has formed a special committee to examine options to restore classroom instruction time lost to teacher furloughs.

A prosecution witness testified that hours before 24-year-old Jermaine Duckworth was found dead at the bottom of a cliff with a gunshot wound to the back of his head, he was in a home in Waipahu, bound with duct tape and being questioned about whether he had talked with police.