Waipahu News

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.

Police arrested nine people Friday night for alleged drug offenses at a reggae concert at the Waikiki Shell.

The recent decision to furlough teachers on 17 Fridays this school year will reduce the school year to 163 instructional days.

The man on trial for a March 2008 'execution-style' slaying was previously acquitted of attempted murder charges and was a suspect in a 2002 homicide, according to court records.

The city has awarded its first major rail transit construction contract -- $483 million for the first six miles -- to Kiewit Pacific Co., Mayor Mufi Hannemann announced late this morning.

Maui police have identified a 45-year-old man who was fatally shot Sunday in Kaupo as Alan Vegas of Kaupo.

A standoff with police in Waipahu overnight that forced the evacuation of dozens of residents ended peacefully.

A 53-year-old man who barricaded himself within a towing company in Waipahu last night was taken into custody early this morning.

The Hawaii State Land Use Commission, to its great credit, rejected, at least for now, the request by D. R. Horton to permit the Hoopili development on Oahu's Ewa plain agricultural lands.

Police believe someone was firing a gun from inside a business in Waipahu on Sunday night.

'I can't wait to go and see my elementary school again.'...'Yeah, I get the chance to do community service to my school.'...'Wow! I get to help today!' These were just some of the comments from the youth of Teens For Christ Hawaii, the church youth group of Filipino United Church of Christ in Waipahu.

Max's of Manila is expanding to Iwilei, after the Philippine-based chain established its first Hawaii restaurant in March 2006.

Prosecutors on Tuesday blamed drugs for a murder case so horrifying, the surviving son can hardly talk about it four years later.