Dems told not to mail to state offices
Democratic Party chairman Walter Heen is warning Democrats not to send campaign literature to state government offices.Heen said that in a recent Democratic Party mailing "material may have been delivered in error to a few members at their government workplaces."
Two months ago, Heen called a news conference to say that the Republicans had violated state ethics laws when the GOP also mistakenly sent a political mailing to a state office.
Today, however, Heen said his campaign organization isn't always able to recognize an address as being a state office.
Heen said any partisan activity in a state office is improper and is not condoned by the Democratic Party.
ZipLane gets big test as students hit the road
Nearly 2,000 cars zipped through the H-1 Freeway's new ZipLane as it faced its biggest challenge this morning with 40,000 University of Hawaii and community college students returning to the classroom.Although no major problems were reported, transportation department officials said there should have been more zip in traffic. "There were too many cars traveling beneath the speed limit of 55 mph," said spokeswoman Marilyn Kali.
Kali said there were no problems this morning with cars trying to overtake each other -- a dangerous and prohibited practice. But there were other problems. "A lot of cars just had one person in them," Kali said, "and there were others where people weren't wearing seatbelts."
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffPolice hunt suspect in Hauula knifing
Police were searching for a 39-year-old man who allegedly stabbed an acquaintance yesterday at Hauula.A 40-year-old man was treated for puncture wounds in his left thigh and chest at Queen's Hospital and later released, a nursing supervisor said.
The incident was reported at 1:06 p.m.
The man identified his alleged attacker and told police they have had a long-standing disagreement.
The man said he was in his Chevy Blazer, parked in the rear of Hauula Elementary School, when the suspect allegedly punched him in the face and stabbed him with an unknown object, possibly a knife or screwdriver, according to a statement to police.
Motorcycle rider killed in Raceway Park crash
A motorcyclist who was competing yesterday at Hawaii Raceway Park was killed in a high-speed crash at the track.The man, 30, was injured after losing control of his motorcycle. He was pronounced dead at Queen's Hospital at 3 p.m.
Police have classified the case as an unattended death, not a traffic fatality.
17-year-old arrested in Waikele purse theft
Police yesterday arrested a 17-year-old boy, who was on furlough from the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility, as a suspect in a purse snatching involving a visitor from Japan.The theft occurred yesterday at Waikele at 3:15 p.m.
The boy and another unidentified male, who fled the scene in a white car, allegedly grabbed the purse of the 21-year-old visitor. The boy was arrested in the area about 30 minutes later.
The purse was recovered with nothing missing.
Masked gunmen rob market at Kaneohe
The Country Market at 47-723 Kamehameha Highway in Kaneohe was robbed Saturday night by two men armed with guns and wearing ski masks.It is the third armed robbery of a small store since Thursday, when a liquor store and convenience store in Central Oahu were hit by armed robbers.
Kalihi man arrested in 1987 Calif. shooting
A 35-year-old man wanted for murder in San Pablo, Calif., was arrested Saturday by police at his Iwilei work place.Authorities were trying to schedule an extradition hearing today for Edward Vasquez of Io Lane in Kalihi.
Vasquez, who has been living in Hawaii for several years, was arrested at 8:30 a.m. Saturday based on new evidence allegedly linking him to the 1987 shooting of his brother-in-law, said San Pablo police Sgt. Kenny Bays.
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