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Neal Miyahira signs on as Earl Anzai stand-in
Gov. Ben Cayetano has named Neal Miyahira as interim director of the Department of Budget and Finance, replacing Earl Anzai, whose appointment failed to win state Senate confirmation.Miyahira, who has been deputy director of the Department of Taxation since December, was deputy director of Budget and Finance from 1995 through 1998 and previously spent five years in the department as a budget analyst.
The appointment, effective yesterday, is subject to Senate confirmation next year.
While Cayetano was lieutenant governor, he employed Miyahira as chief of research from 1985 to 1994 and as chief of staff in 1994.
Miyahira also was budget analyst for the Senate Ways and Means Committee for the 1978-1980 legislative sessions, and a researcher for the Senate Health Committee in 1981.
He holds bachelor and master degrees in economics from the University of Hawaii.
Military money aimed at Hawaii looks likely
The U.S. Department of Defense Appropriations bill for the next fiscal year will contain $174 million for Hawaii, including $35 million to continue cleanup of Kahoolawe.U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye said the Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense approved the funding for Kahoolawe and $139 million for defense research and other projects "of interest to our nation's military and of importance to Hawaii's economy."
Parsons-UXB last year was awarded a $280 million contract to clear ordnance from Kahoolawe, once used for Navy bombing and military maneuvers.
The recommended appropriations also include $35 million for Tripler Army Medical Center's telemedicine and teleradiology developments and $7.5 million for a Tripler-Henry Ford Foundation program to automate clinical practice guidelines.
About $9 million would be added to the $45 million already provided to complete a new SWATH oceanographic research vessel for the University of Hawaii. Also, $10 million is allocated to build a SLICE trailer as follow-up technology to the SWATH ship, with dual uses for the military and a high- speed ferry.
The appropriations also include $12 million for continued Navy research on antisubmarine warfare and mine countermeasures programs; $11 million for the Asia-Pacific Center for Securities Studies; $7 million for the Center of Excellence for Research in Ocean Sciences, $10 million for the Pacific Disaster Center, $48 million for projects and upgrades at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, and $29 million for the Maui Space Surveillance Site.
The measure goes next to the Senate Appropriations Committee and then to the full Senate for a vote. It will face a conference committee before final votes in both houses.
Buckle up your keiki or face getting busted
As part of a weeklong national campaign, police have begun strictly enforcing all child restraint and seat belt laws.The Honolulu Police Department is one of 5,000 law enforcement agencies participating in "Operation ABC Mobilization -- America Buckles Up Children." The campaign aims at lowering traffic fatalities with children by reminding the public to buckle them up.
Throughout the nation, more than 2,000 children die in traffic crashes each year and an additional 30,000 are injured.
Lingle will let on how she motivates herself
Former Maui Mayor Linda Lingle will share her secrets to motivation at a luncheon June 1 at the Pacific Club.The former Republican gubernatorial candidate will speak before 1999 grantees of the Women's Fund, a component fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation.
Call Marybeth Fentriss at 566-5523 for more information.
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Police, Fire
By Star-Bulletin staffA fifth inmate hanged himself in a state prison this weekend. Prison inmate’s suicide
pushes year's toll to 5Harry Titsworth, 39, found hanging from a pipe at Halawa Correctional Facility, was pronounced dead 6:56 p.m. Sunday at Pali Momi Hospital. His body was found in a utility room that served as a library.
Titsworth was serving time for multiple sex assault convictions. Corrections officials said he was not a problem inmate and did appear to be suicidal.
An internal investigation has begun.
Other inmate suicides this year, all by hanging, include:
The suicides have prompted a review of prison suicide-prevention policies and procedures.
Two men charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death in Wahiawa of a 31-year-old man last November will both probably serve no more than a year in jail. Deal reached with
men in stabbing caseIn a plea agreement reached with the state, James "Spider" Russell, 24, yesterday pleaded guilty to first-degree assault for his role in the death of Chance Paris.
Khloy Sorn, 18, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault. Both would have faced life in prison with the possibility of parole if convicted of second-degree murder. First-degree assault carries a penalty of up to 10 years in jail and a $25,000 fine. Second-degree assault is punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
Based on the plea agreement, Russell and Sorn will be placed on five years' probation. The state is free to seek up to one year in jail when the men are sentenced July 19 by Circuit Judge Melvin Soong.
Investigators said Paris was drinking in front of 265 California Ave. when residents accused him of robbing a juvenile and pushing an elderly man onto the sidewalk. He was stabbed during an ensuing fight.
Chicago man drowns off beach on Kauai
KEALIA, Kauai _ A 33-year-old Chicago man drowned yesterday at Kealia Beach after ignoring warnings from local residents that the area he was entering is known for strong rip currents.The man's wife, who is eight months pregnant, watched helplessly from shore as he was carried out and became exhausted. His face-down body was recovered about 25 yards from the beach.
At almost the same time yesterday, strong currents also exhausted four people kayaking on Kauai's Na Pali Coast. A fire department rescue helicopter spotted an SOS they made in the sand at Kalalau Beach and airlifted them to safety.
Man dies after shipyard forklift falls into sea
A forklift operator drowned today after driving into the waters at the Barbers Point shipyard.The stevedore, identified by harbor security as Edward Fernandez, had the forklift in reverse when he plunged into the water after 3 a.m., police said.
Two truck drivers at Lee RHS Inc. jumped into the water and rescued Fernandez. He was then pulled from the waters with a crane.
Fernandez was recovered unconscious with a pulse, but died during cardiopulmonary resuscitation efforts.
Man held for attacking, kidnapping girlfriend
Police yesterday arrested a 34-year-old man for allegedly attacking and threatening his girlfriend with a knife.The woman, 47, was trying to break up with the suspect, police said. The boyfriend reportedly choked the woman and put a knife to her throat at her Waipahu home at 7:25 a.m.
The suspect was booked for kidnapping and first-degree terroristic threatening.
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