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By Star-Bulletin Staff

Tuesday, March 14, 2000

Associated Press
Steve Young and Barbara Graham will be married
today in the Mormon temple in Kailua-Kona..

49ers QB Young weds
in Kona today

The San Francisco great is
marrying former model Barbara
Graham of Phoenix

Associated Press

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young was to be married in a Mormon temple on the Big island today to former model Barbara Graham, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Young, 38, met Graham, 31, about 18 months ago through mutual friends.

Both are Mormon, and the wedding was scheduled to take place in the newly dedicated temple in Kailua-Kona.

Church rules limit those allowed inside the temple to Mormons. Other guests, about 100 in all, were to join the couple later at a reception, the newspaper said.

Among the expected guests were 49ers coach Steve Mariucci, wide receiver Jerry Rice and former 49ers Brent Jones and Harris Barton.

Young is the great-great-great grandson of Mormon Church founder Brigham Young.

Young, who missed most of last season with a concussion, has been the subject of much speculation regarding his plans for next season. He has said he wants to return to the field, although there have been suggestions he might wind up as a television commentator, perhaps on Monday Night Football.

Graham is a summa cum laude graduate of Arizona State. She works in public relations in Phoenix.

The Big Island temple, at 75-230 Kalani Road, was dedicated Jan. 23 by church president Gordon Hinckley.

2 students suspended in Kalaheo High attack

The Department of Education and police are investigating a fight on the Kalaheo High School campus that left the victim with a broken jaw.

Jose Abrante III, a Kalaheo sophomore, is expected to miss at least three weeks of school as a result of his injury, Principal James Schlosser said.

The fight took place Thursday during lunch, when Abrante was approached by two other students. The two have since been suspended for five days, and will not be allowed to return to the 1,100-member Kailua campus for the remainder of the school year.

Schlosser said the two alleged assailants probably will attend Windward Oahu's Olamana School, a school for troubled youth, or be put in an off-campus outreach program.

Schlosser described the incident as "unfortunate," adding that "it appeared to have been a personal grudge" on the part of one of the attackers.

Tuition hikes delayed at community college

A proposed tuition increase for community college students taking more than 12 credits a semester will be delayed two years to allow more notice to students, the University of Hawaii administration has announced.

Other features of the university's proposed tuition increases, first presented for public comment last November, remain the same.

The revised tuition schedule will be presented at a Board of Regents' Committee on Budget and Long-Range Planning meeting Thursday at UH-Manoa and at a board meeting Friday at Windward Community College.

Increases of the past two years will be continued for students throughout the system. For resident students, increases will be about 3 percent ($4 a credit) for undergraduates at UH-Manoa and about 4 percent ($2 a credit) at community colleges.

The revised tuition schedule and a summary of public comments are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.hawaii.edu/ovppp/

Gore gets 11 delegates in Hawaii polling

Vice President Al Gore collected 11 Hawaii delegates and former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley two delegates in last week's Democratic Party presidential preference poll.

Gore collected five delegates and Bradley one in the First Congressional District, which encompasses most of Oahu.

The vice president gathered six delegates to one for Bradley in the Second Congressional District, which includes rural Oahu and the Neighbor Islands.

A 14th delegate will go to this summer's Democratic Party National Convention uncommitted.

The remaining 19 delegates are chosen by their political office or selected later by party leaders, who will apportion them to the candidate of their choice. All of those delegates are expected to go to Gore.

Helene Hale to run for state House seat

HILO -- Democrat Helene Hale, who was once the equivalent of Big Island mayor, has filed papers to run for the Fourth District House of Representatives seat being vacated by Robert Herkes.

Hale was the first woman elected to the Hawaii County Board of Supervisors, the body that later became the County Council. In 1962, she was elected chairman of the Supervisors, equivalent to mayor.

Since then, she has served on the County Council and was a delegate to the 1978 Constitutional Convention.

Hale said she wants to continue Herkes' work of expanding telephone service in Puna and Kau.

Correction The 46th Annual Kunia Orchid Show is this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Incorrect dates were printed in Friday's garden column.

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Police, Fire, Courts



By Star-Bulletin staff

Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers

Stabbing victim faces charges; knifer sought

Drug charges are pending against a 20-year-old man who was slashed and stabbed in the cheek, hand, calf and knee early yesterday morning by an acquaintance.

The man, a female friend and the suspect were driving around Ewa Beach when the alleged stabbing occurred at 3:20 a.m. The stabbing victim, who was driving, crashed his car into a utility pole at Mailani and Kuhina streets.

The suspect fled the scene and the woman drove her friend to St. Francis-West Hospital. Emergency room personnel found evidence of drugs on him.

Police recovered possible drugs and also a glass smoking pipe.

The stabbing is classified as an attempted murder. Police were still looking for the stabbing suspect this morning.

Big Isle man arrested in yacht-harbor robbery

A 43-year-old Big Island man was arrested yesterday for multiple felony offenses stemming from an armed robbery earlier this month at Ala Wai Yacht Harbor.

On March 4, two men allegedly entered a boat cabin, tied up two occupants and attempted to extort money from them before fleeing the scene with an undisclosed amount of cash. One of the men was armed with a handgun.

Police arrested one suspect the following day.

Yesterday, the second suspect was arrested at 4:50 p.m. when he returned to a Kuhio Avenue hotel to pick up personal property. Cooperating hotel personnel notified police when they saw the suspect.

The man was booked for first-degree robbery, extortion and threatening, and also kidnapping.

People asked to watch for stolen college papers

A visiting college professor says a thief who broke into his rental car Sunday afternoon took not only a laptop computer but also research documents that cannot be replaced.

Many of the documents on how microorganisms attack pollutants, written by his students, were originals, according to James Tidje, a microbiology professor at Michigan State University.

Honolulu Police Detective Letha DeCaires said the thief may have taken the laptop and trashed the documents. She urged people to be on the lookout for them. The documents are stamped with a university logo, and might have been dumped in garbage bins in the downtown area when the thief realized the briefcase did not contain cash, she said.

Tidje said he parked on Punchbowl Street near Kawaiahao Church to take pictures and returned to find a thief had broken into the trunk of his rental car.

Propane leak starts fire, destroys home near Hilo

HILO - A fire caused by a leaking propane refrigerator destroyed a house in Hawaiian Acres south of Hilo yesterday, the Fire Department said.

Owner Hollye Nasario and her five children escaped uninjured from the 3:21 a.m. blaze. The loss was put at $70,000.