Newswatch
Eight Waikiki residents unveiled the Waikiki Area Action Association at City Hall yesterday. Joining them were Councilman Duke Bainum and Rep. Mary-Jane McMurdo.
The residents, including a current member of the Waikiki Neighborhood Board, say a number of positions taken by the panel have irked them.
But Sam Bren, the neighborhood board's chairman, says the new group is the brainchild of two area politicians who oppose his policies, and that it doesn't represent the majority of Waikiki residents.
William Simpson, Jr. surfing a big waveA Maui man was collecting rent for a friend when he was shot to death in rural Olinda Monday.
Elsie Daniels says her son, William Simpson, Jr., walked into a hornet's nest.
Police are looking for the man suspected of doing the shooting.
Simpson was a big-wave surfer who had just returned from Fiji, where he was working with surfer Mike Waltze on a movie about big-wave riding. He had gone to Waltze's home in Olinda and collected $2,000 in rent. He was apparently shot when he returned to the home after learning the tenant owed more money.
Council Chairman John DeSoto and John Edmunds, Mirikitani's attorney, have agreed to formal mediation to resolve their differences.
Last Friday, DeSoto ordered Mirikitani and his secretary relocated from the Council's second-floor headquarters to the tower office on the eighth floor. The order came soon after Colleen Sakai, DeSoto's executive assistant, filed a police complaint claiming she had been verbally harassed by Mirikitani on May 24. DeSoto said the move was necessary to ensure the safety of women working in the Council offices.
Mirikitani has called the charges ludicrous. He said the order is retaliation for his opposition to political positions taken by DeSoto and the Council majority.
The medical examiner's office is trying to identify the body, believed to be that of Marine Lance Cpl. Juan Ramon Guerrero, last seen May 7.
The men, 20 and 21, were arrested yesterday afternoon for investigation of second-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery.
Police are seeking charges against another Kaneohe Marine, 22, arrested hours after the discovery.
The body, wrapped in a cloth, appeared to have been dumped there, police said. They estimated the man had been dead for at least 20 days.
The victim was flown to Queen's Hospital following the accident on Burke Street near Alana Street in Tenney Village. He suffered head injuries, police said. The accident occurred in the course of his employment.