Kekaula, KHNL agree to go separate ways
Popular isle sportscaster Robert Kekaula is out as KHNL-News 8 sports director following a fracas in the station's newsroom Oct. 10.A short statement released yesterday from the Kekaula camp said KHNL and Kekaula "decided that it is in their mutual interest to discontinue their relationship."
During the incident, Kekaula grabbed executive producer Alex McGehee by either the shirt collar or the neck and pinned him against a desk, witnesses said. Kekaula apologized for his behavior and station management suspended him without pay from his $100,000-a-year job, a source said.
UPW charges group underpays handicapped
WAILUKU -- The United Public Workers union is challenging a county grant to a nonprofit Maui group that employs the handicapped for maintenance work at less than the minimum wage of $5.25 an hour.The union alleges Ka Lima O Maui pays 12 workers from $1.50 to $4.62 an hour.
The lawsuit, filed last week, charges the payroll was not properly certified to allow workers to receive below-minimum wages.
Ka Lima O Maui official Jamie Woodburn has said workers are paid less than minimum wage because they take longer on tasks.
Footaction USA offers $100,000 for college
High school seniors who participate in sports and who plan to attend college are eligible for up to $100,000 in scholarships from shoe retailer Footaction USA.Four graduating seniors will receive $10,000 scholarships and 30 others will receive $2,000 scholarships. Entry deadline is Jan. 15.
Two hundred semifinalists will be asked to submit a more detailed application, high school records, standardized test results and a financial need questionnaire. They also are required to submit an essay not to exceed 250 words on how athletics and education have positively influenced their lives.
For applications, write Hooked on Sports, 7880 Bent Branch Drive, #100, Irving, Texas 75063.
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Police/Fire
By Star-Bulletin staffOfficer slashed in youth scuffle at Ewa Beach
An Ewa Beach police officer trying to break up a fight between two large groups of teen-agers suffered a severe cut to his face when one of the combatants threw a fist-sized piece of coral at him.Officer Sean Asato received 10 stitches for a 11/2-inch cut at St. Francis West Hospital early yesterday morning after the incident at Hau Bush on Papipi Road and Ai Kanaka in Ewa Beach.
The fight broke out after minors from Mililani, Wahiawa and Halawa crashed an Ewa Beach party.
Police arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of first-degree assault in connection with the 1:40 a.m. incident but released him to the custody of his parents pending further investigation.
Police seek man in sex assault of teen-age girl
Police are searching for a man who took a 16-year-old girl from her Aiea home and sexually assaulted her yesterday morning.The man took the girl from her home between 3 and 6 a.m. to Round Top Drive in Tantalus where he sexually assaulted her. The victim did not know the man.
Man sought in attempt to rob Pearlridge eatery
Police are searching for a male in his 20s for pulling a knife and demanding cash at a Pearlridge Denny's Restaurant this morning.At 12:30 a.m., the man entered the restaurant and pulled the knife on the cashier. She pretended to push an alarm button, and he immediately fled the scene.
Threat with handgun brings firearm charges
WAIMEA, Hawaii -- Police are holding one man and investigating another in connection with a threat involving a handgun against a third man in Waimea.The suspects were arrested Saturday upon returning to the home of a 24-year-old Lindsey Subdivision man while police were there investigating the victim's complaint of a threat earlier that day.
Leigh Sidney Case, 39, of Waimea was charged yesterday with terroristic threatening, being a felon in possession of a firearm and keeping a firearm in an improper place. He is being held in Kona in lieu of $60,000 bail.
A 39-year-old man with him was arrested for terroristic threatening, marijuana possession and no drivers license, but was released pending investigation.
Two arrested following theft of surfer shorts
HILO -- Police arrested two people for the theft of nine pairs of surf shorts valued at $270 at the Hilo Wal-Mart yesterday.A male suspect attacked a store security guard who followed the two into the parking lot, they said.
Identified as Thane K. Leialoha, 20, of Ohuohu Street, the man ran away but was later caught and charged with robbery. He is being held in lieu of $2,000 bail.
The woman with him, Leayala L. White, 20, was charged with theft and was released.
Kailua-Kona man held in abduction of girl
KAILUA-KONA -- Police are holding Bingham Bruce Young, 50, of Kailua-Kona in lieu of $70,000 bail on a charge of sexual assault on a girl. Young was arrested Saturday for allegedly abducting the girl in Holualoa Oct. 8, driving her to another site where he sexually assaulted her, and then returning her to Holualoa.
In other news...
The military and the Coast Guard are looking for a man who dove in the ocean and fled from military police about 11:30 last night. Military police at Kaneohe Marine Corps Base Hawaii were making rounds when they spotted a "suspicious individual." After a two-minute chase, the man dove into the water at Fort Hase Beach and, as of 11 a.m. today, has not emerged, military officials said.
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