By Craig T. Kojima, Star-Bulletin
Two women were killed yesterday in a crash involving
a van and a pickup truck near Haleiwa.
Two women were killed yesterday in a head-on collision involving a van and pickup truck on Joseph P. Leong Highway, also known as the Haleiwa bypass road. Haleiwa collision
kills 2, hospitalizes 3Witnesses told police the van, traveling north toward Kahuku, crossed the center line and went into the path of the southbound truck.
The collision was reported at 1:43 p.m.
There were three women and a girl in the van. Dead are the 44-year-old driver, of Laie, and her 76-year-old mother, who was seated in the right rear seat.
The girl, 5, and front-seat passenger, 37, were taken to Queen's Hospital.
Police say the girl is in critical condition, while the woman is listed in serious condition.
A 38-year-old man, who was driving the pickup truck, is also in critical condition at Queen's.
The collision forced the closure of the bypass road for nearly 3 hours.
Gov. Ben Cayetano and first lady Vicky Cayetano departed this morning for the 1999 meeting of the Western Governors Association in Jackson, Wyo., and will later vacation in California. Cayetanos at gathering
of governorsBefore returning, the governor on June 20 will deliver the commencement address at his alma mater, UCLA.
The Cayetanos are scheduled to be back in Honolulu on June 23, the day before the deadline to veto bills passed by this year's state Legislature, said the governor's press secretary, Kathleen Racuya-Markrich.
The three-day annual meeting of the governors association -- whose members represent 18 states and Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands -- convenes Sunday.
Among the topics to be discussed is airline service, which is vital to Hawaii, whose No. 1 industry is tourism. John Philip of United Airlines, one of the major carriers to Hawaii, will be among the industry officials addressing the governors.
On the final day of the gathering, Cayetano, now the association's vice chairman, is expected to be elected chairman of the organization.
Millennium Moments
The lava from the Big Island's Kilauea Volcano just keeps on coming. Kilauea erupts
Still spewing since its current eruptive phase began in January 1983, Kilauea is the most active volcano on Earth.
Over its 16-year phase, 550 acres of new land have been formed. The Kilauea eruption is known as Pu'u O'o, the main vent that formed in the early 1980s. Some highlights:
Lava overran the ancient 12th-century Tahitian heiau at Wahaula in 1997.
$268.5 million OK'd for isle military spending
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Appropriations Committee this week approved spending a record $268.5 million on military construction in Hawaii, according to Sen. Daniel Inouye, the second-ranking Democrat on the panel.The spending includes $15.9 million to begin building a new CINCPAC headquarters at Camp Smith.
That money was not included in the House version of the military construction bill, so that and other inconsistencies will have to be ironed out by Senate and House negotiators.
The committee this week also earmarked $26 million for Honolulu's East-West Center, more than twice this year's funding. The final figure, again, will be determined by congressional negotiators, but Inouye was hopeful that the increased funding would be approved.
"Events such as ... the North Korean nuclear weapons showdown and the current Asian financial crisis have forced the United States to focus more resources and attention on this region of the world," he said, noting that the East-West Center is providing "expertise and assistance" to numerous Asian countries in economic turmoil.
Leilehua senior is new school board member
The student member of the state Board of Education for the next year will be a military dependent who has attended schools in seven other locations, including Alabama, Germany and Cyprus.Adrian Howell, 17, a Leilehua High School senior, was selected by the Hawaii State Student Council to fill the student chair held last year by Jessica Preece.
The student is a nonvoting member of the board but serves on board committees and otherwise participates on an equal basis with the 13 elected members.
He is intended to serve as a link between the board and Hawaii public school students, according to a student council announcement.
Howell said he expects to contribute as much as every other Board of Education member.
He is a National Honor Society member and a peer mediator at Leilehua.
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Police, Fire
By Star-Bulletin staffState hospital patient arrested on sex charge
Police yesterday arrested a 34-year-old male patient at Kaneohe State Hospital for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman patient who is mentally disabled.The man took the woman, 37, into his room and reportedly sexually assaulted her at 2:53 p.m., police said. Another man entered the room and pulled the woman away from the suspect.
The woman was taken to Kapiolani Hospital for examination.
Threatening charge filed against isle man
Police yesterday charged a 20-year-old man in connection with threatening his girlfriend at their 6th Avenue home with a knife.Joshua Pagaduan was charged with first-degree terroristic threatening, police said. His bail was set at $11,000.
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