Drug War
Pacifist Cannabis minister Reverend Roger Christie has been held without bail at the Honolulu Federal Detention Center since July 8, 2010. He's been denied bail 7 times. His trial on federal drug trafficking charges has been set back to July 23, 2013.
Hawaii News Daily deplores Christie's incarceration without bail as a miscarriage of justice. You can learn about the case of Roger Christie and the Green 14 here.
Puna fatality 10-23-11
Hawaii Police Department — A 53-year-old Hilo woman died Sunday (October 23) from injuries she sustained in a motorcycle crash on Kapoho-Pahoa Road .2 miles south of the 2-mile marker,
Responding to a 2:55 p.m. call, Puna patrol officers determined that the victim was operating a 1999 Honda motorcycle and traveling north...
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A Maui man died and an Ohio man was critically injured in a zip line accident Wednesday morning in Paukaʻa.
Both men were employed by a Maui company that builds and maintains zip lines. They had just made an adjustment to the line and were in the process of testing it.
The 36-year-old Maui...
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Big Island police have arrested a 35-year-old Pāhoa man in connection with the attempted kidnapping and attempted sexual assault of a female child in a restroom at a Hilo public school on Tuesday morning (September 20).
Samson Perez, also known as Samson Kahumoku, was located on Aupuni Street in Hilo at 9:50 a.m. and...
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Apparently it’s the crime that will not speak its name.
When the first word in the headline- “Decapitation…” caught our eye Wednesday we almost kept scanning the Honolulu paper for less bloody fare — until, that is, we read “…of papaya trees unnerves Hawaii isle farmers.”
According to the article, someone took a machete to 10...
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I was born on the Fourth of July and feel that it is undemocratic and un-American that the population of Hawaii Island, which has increased 25% since the last census in 2000, is being denied an additional Senate seat in our State Legislature, so that military people who are not considered state residents and...
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