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Newswatch
Star-Bulletin staff and wire service
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Fundraiser to help surviving kids
A fundraising drive to help the four Dikito children whose parents died in a murder-suicide in Ewa Beach will run all day today at all Big City Diner locations.
Bronlyn, Brenna, Blayne and Brelynn Dikito will be at the Big City Diner in Waipio starting at 5 p.m.
For every special flier presented from the restaurant's Web site (www.bigcitydinerhawaii.com/dikito-fundraiser.asp), Big City Diner will donate 15 percent of the total check to the children to help in their $2,600 monthly expenses.
On April 25 their 39-year-old father, Domingo "Bunny" Dikito, shot their mother, Della, 38, and then killed himself.
L&L taking donations for China
L&L Hawaiian Barbecue outlets are collecting donations for the American Red Cross to help with relief efforts for victims of the May 12 earthquake in China.
Donations are being accepted through Saturday. Company officials said the chain has many employees with ties to the Central Chinese region devastated by the magnitude-7.9 quake and its many aftershocks.
Cash or checks can be dropped off at any Hawaii L&L Barbecue location. Checks should be made payable to American Red Cross International Response Fund.
Maui man hurt as paraglider fails
WAILUKU » A Maui man was injured when his paraglider malfunctioned and he fell several hundred feet into a ravine off Crater Road on Maui.
The incident took place close to 10:12 a.m. Sunday near mile marker 7 at the 6,000-foot level of Mount Haleakala, Assistant Battalion Chief Jeff Shaffer of the Maui Fire Department said.
Shaffer said the man, identified as Ahbay Morrissey, was lifted from the ravine by a rescue helicopter and taken to an ambulance on Crater Road, where he was transported to Maui Memorial Medical Center.
Morrissey was conscious and able to speak yesterday, said his friend David Binder.
Morrissey, who has done solo paragliding on Haleakala for at least two to three years, said he hurt his back but planned to be out of the hospital yesterday afternoon, Binder said.
Binder, owner of the Proflyght Paragliding School of Maui, said there are some 50 paraglider pilots on Maui.
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Police, Fire, Courts
Star-Bulletin staff
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Maui police search for escapee
WAILUKU » Authorities on Maui are searching for a prisoner who escaped the island's correctional facility by scaling a building, jumping an inside fence and then crawling out under an outer perimeter fence.
Gary Stephen Arrojo, 45, escaped Sunday at 7:12 p.m., state public safety spokeswoman Louise Kim McCoy said.
Maui prison officials have secured the perimeter to prevent another such escape, she added.
Authorities said Arrojo was awaiting trial on a felony shoplifting charge and has several felony convictions, including burglary, theft, forgery and car theft.
McCoy said anyone identifying Arrojo should call police at 911.
Arrojo, who has green eyes and brown hair, weighs about 170 pounds and stands about 5 feet 5 inches tall.
The last escape from the facility occurred on Dec. 17, 2005, and involved Kenneth Heintz.
Heintz, 52, was later recaptured.
Broken apparatus hurts paraglider
WAILUKU » A Maui man was injured when his paraglider malfunctioned and he fell several hundred feet into a ravine off Crater Road on Maui.
The incident took place close to 10:12 a.m. Sunday near mile marker 7 at the 6,000-foot level of Mount Haleakala, Assistant Battalion Chief Jeff Shaffer of the Maui Fire Department said.
Shaffer said the man, identified as Ahbay Morrissey, was lifted from the ravine by a rescue helicopter and taken to an ambulance on Crater Road, where he was transported to Maui Memorial Medical Center.
Morrissey was conscious and able to speak yesterday, said his friend David Binder.
Morrissey, who has done solo paragliding on Haleakala for at least two to three years, said he hurt his back but planned to be out of the hospital yesterday afternoon, Binder said.
Binder, owner of the Proflyght Paragliding School of Maui, said there are some 50 paraglider pilots on Maui.