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Tenants set to move into new Liu Building
Two commercial tenants will occupy the first floor of the city's redone and renamed Daniel Liu Building at 61 N. Hotel St.Hiroto and Tan Fujiwara will operate a barber and hair salon in a 531-square-foot space. Ross Sasamura, director of the Department of Facility Maintenance, told the City Council's Budget Committee that the Fujiwaras will pay $1,062 a month through September 2005 and pay fair market value on the remaining five years of the 10-year lease.
Jenny's Signs and Photos also is getting a 10-year lease and will occupy 242 square feet. It will pay $484 a month through 2005 and fair market value for the remainder of its lease.
The parties also have agreed to chip in at least $25,000 each in improvements to their respective properties.
The building was purchased and renovated by the city and is the middle structure of a three-structure complex that includes the newly built Chinatown police station on the corner of Hotel and Maunakea streets.
A building on the Smith Street side of the block was seized by the federal government as a drug forfeiture.
The Liu Building is named after the late police chief.
Hawaii volunteer aids Taiwan crash relief
Hawaii Red Cross volunteer Ken Lee has been sent to Los Angeles to help provide emergency relief in response to the Singapore Airlines crash in Taipei.Lee, part of the American Red Cross' 18-member Aviation Incident Response Team, left for Los Angeles yesterday afternoon.
The response team is helping dozens of local Red Cross volunteers provide emotional support, food and beverages to crash victims' relatives and emergency workers.
Prozac maker settles Pearl City suicide suit
INDIANAPOLIS -- Eli Lilly and Co. has settled a wrongful-death case involving a Pearl City teen who killed himself after taking Prozac.The parents of Hugh B. Blowers sued Lilly, which makes the drug, 10 months ago in U.S. District Court in Hawaii. Blowers hanged himself in his bedroom about a week after he started taking the drug to treat depression.
They accused the Indianapolis-based company of negligence and misrepresentation for not warning that Prozac can cause suicidal feelings.
Lilly filed for dismissal on Oct. 10, and the case has been terminated, a court clerk told the Indianapolis Star.
Lilly settled the case for less than it would have cost to try the case, spokesman Edward A. West said.
Man who illegally took unemployment must repay funds
Circuit Judge Richard Perkins sentenced Edward Lumives to five years' probation for illegally receiving $7,371 in unemployment insurance benefits.The judge, in the Friday sentencing, also ordered Lumives to pay the money back to the state.
From Sept. 21, 1997, through and including Feb. 14, 1998, Lumives submitted fraudulent claim certifications, the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations said.
At the time he was receiving unemployment insurance benefits, Lumives was employed as a pipe fitter and earning about $1,000 a week, the state said.
Tomorrow
Some events of interest
6:30 p.m., Haleiwa Alii Beach Park: Vision meeting. Contact: Ross Sasamura, 523-4341.
Clarification
Morgado said he was not given an opportunity to respond to a Star-Bulletin article yesterday detailing Pinky Thompson's contribution to his campaign. A reporter seeking comment had attempted to reach Morgado but left a message at an incorrect telephone number.
Corrections
Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
Big Isle man, 43, died suspiciously, police say
KAILUA-KONA -- Preliminary autopsy results indicate that a man found floating in the ocean near Kailua-Kona on Saturday died under suspicious circumstances, police said.The exact cause of death was not determined and further tests are needed, they said.
The name of the 43-year-old victim, believed to be a Kona resident, was withheld pending notification of his next of kin.
Hilo motorcyclist dies after head-on crash
HILO -- A 48-year-old motorcycle rider died after crashing head-on into a station wagon on the Hawaii Belt Road just north of Hilo last night, police said. The rider was identified as Karl Wersing of Hilo.
Woman arrested in knifing
A 28-year-old woman was arrested downtown yesterday after she allegedly knifed a woman who was waiting for a bus.The victim was at a bus stop near Alapai and Hotel streets when a screaming woman stabbed her at 6:08 p.m., police said. The victim tried to get away by boarding the bus, but was stabbed again in the arm.
She was treated at Queen's Medical Center for her injuries.
Police credited witnesses with detaining the suspect until police arrived.
Suspect nabbed after wet chase
WAILUKU -- Maui police detectives are holding a 21-year-old Hana man as a suspect in the abduction of an 8-year-old girl during Halloween festivities in Lahaina town.Police Lt. Lenie Lawrence said the man snatched the girl while the mother and grandmother were listening to music in front of a park near the state library at about 8 p.m.
He took the girl to a secluded area on Luakini Street, where another man spotted them and pursued the alleged abductor.
Police joined in the chase as the suspect leaped into the harbor and swam toward boats moored outside the harbor.
Lawrence said police found him hanging naked on a buoy outside the harbor.
Lawrence said the suspect had been arrested recently for a similar abduction.
Robber hits Waipahu bank
The FBI and police are looking for a man who robbed the Waipahu American Savings Bank yesterday afternoon.The robber entered the bank at 94-060 Farrington Highway about 1:37 p.m. and presented a demand note, police said. No weapon was seen, but the robber indicated he had a weapon. He left with an undisclosed amount of money.
The man is believed to have been responsible for four other robberies.
He is described as 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing about 180 pounds, in his late 20s, with dark eyes, hair and a beard, which was possibly fake. He wore a white, long-sleeved shirt, blue jeans and a baseball cap.
It was the state's 28th bank robbery this year.
