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Police, Fire, Courts

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Wednesday, August 8, 2001


Mighty Mo lease extended 3 years

The battleship USS Missouri will stay at its current location next to the Arizona Memorial for at least another three years, the USS Missouri Memorial Association announced.

The association said it has signed an extension to its Navy lease allowing the Missouri to remain at Pier F-5 at Ford Island through July 31, 2004.

The lease had been set to expire at the end of last month.

The memorial has drawn more than 900,000 visitors since it opened in January 1999 about 300 yards from the USS Arizona Memorial.

Missouri Association officials said it was important to keep the battleship close to the sunken Arizona, ground zero of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack that drew the United States into World War II.

Japan surrendered to Allied Forces on the Missouri's deck on Sept. 2, 1945.

The association will pay the Navy just under $200,000 a year under the terms of the lease extension.

The lease includes most of the pier and limited use of the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park property.

Examiners identify Pearl City crash victim

The Honolulu Medical Examiner has identified the driver who died in a traffic accident in Pearl City early Saturday as Al Bray, 29, of Pearl City. His passenger, Merliza Vitolo, 33, of Ewa Beach, also died in the accident.

A company official said both victims were employees of Handi-Van.

Police said Bray was behind the wheel of a sport utility vehicle that was speeding and had already ran several red lights on Kamehameha Highway when it collided with a car at the Acacia Road intersection.

The collision sent Bray's vehicle into the curb then airborne into a utility pole before landing in a vacant office in the Pearl Highlands Center at 1000 Kamehameha Hwy.

Vitolo was ejected from the vehicle. Bray was trapped inside the wreckage. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.

Corrections and clarifications

>> The Friends of the Hawaii Kai Library will hold a book sale from noon until 4:45 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 11 and 12, in the library meeting room at 249 Lunalilo Home Road.

>> Sen. Mary Jane McMurdo did not lose an election in 1991 after her district was gerrymandered as stated in a guest column by Larry Meacham in yesterday's Star-Bulletin. The radical redistricting did contribute to her decision not to run for re-election, however, McMurdo said.

>> The winner of a special election for mayor if Mayor Jeremy Harris has to resign to run for governor would need a plurality of votes, not a majority as reported in yesterday's paper.


Corrections and clarifications

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Police, Fire, Courts

Police/Fire

By Star-Bulletin staff

Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers

Victim in Waiau stabbing filed restraining order on suspect

A 32-year-old woman had filed a restraining order against her ex-husband who was arrested for stabbing her yesterday morning on the way home from work in Waiau, police said.

Police say a male friend whom the woman asked to accompany her home for protection also was stabbed by the ex-husband.

The 32-year-old ex-husband then drove the woman to Tripler Army Medical Center. The 38-year-old male friend was taken to Queen's Medical Center. Both were initially listed in serious condition.

Her ex-husband was arrested in an investigation of two counts of attempted murder after being treated at Tripler for a hand injury.

Police recovered three weapons -- a BB gun and 4-inch and 8-inch knives -- at the stabbing site at Hoohulu and Hoohaaheo Place.

Police said the woman was driving when the suspect cut the car off about 2 a.m. The suspect got out of the car, displayed a gun to the ex-wife, then stabbed the male friend and pulled the woman from the car and stabbed her while on the hood of the car, police said.





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