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Police, Fire, Courts

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Tuesday, June 27, 2000

Honolulu-Dallas flight
makes emergency
landing at LAX

DC-10 pilots shut down
one of three engines

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The pilots of an American Airlines DC-10 carrying 294 people on a flight from Hawaii to Texas shut down one of the jetliner's three engines and made an emergency landing early Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport.

"They had a problem with the No. 2 engine on the tail and shut it down," said airline spokesman Mark Kienzle. The jet is designed to fly on just two engines.

It wasn't known what was wrong with the engine, Kienzle said.

Dallas-bound American Flight No. 8 from Honolulu landed safely at 1:05 a.m. There were 282 passengers and a flight crew of 12. No one was hurt.

"They changed planes and, after a two-hour delay, continued on to their destination," the spokesman said.

Straub named among top
100 hospitals for success of
cardiovascular services

Straub Clinic & Hospital has received a "100 Top Hospital" award from an independent national research organization on the basis of its performance in cardiovascular services.

HCIA-Sachs officials from Baltimore were here to present the award.

Straub was the only Hawaii hospital named in the study. The 100 top hospitals were ranked by HCIA-Sachs according to success in treating heart attack patients, performing angioplasty and heart bypass surgery.

The study began in 1993, using performance data from the Health Care Financing Administration, to improve care for cardiovascular patients by setting a standard for treatment across the country.

If all hospitals performed at the level of the top 100, HCIA-Sachs said, deaths from cardiovascular surgery would be drastically reduced, patient infections after surgery would drop, hospital costs would decrease and hospital stays would shorten.

Results of the study are available at http://www.100tophospitals.com.

Professor named East-West
Center journalism fellow

Eugene L. Roberts, journalism professor at the University of Maryland, has been named the George Chaplin Fellow in Distinguished Journalism, one of the most prestigious East-West Center Awards.

Roberts will deliver the address "American Newspapers: Turning Their Backs to Foreign News in the Age of Globalization," July 10, 4 p.m. at the East-West Center.

The former executive editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, which won Pulitzer Prizes during his editorship, was managing editor of the New York Times, and served as national editor and chief war correspondent in Vietnam.

The award honors George Chaplin, former editor-in-chief of the Honolulu Advertiser.

Cayetano approves civil service reform

Gov. Ben Cayetano has approved the civil service reform measure that he says is only a small first step to changing how public employees are compensated and managed in Hawaii.

"To bring about meaningful change, I believe more needs to be done," Cayetano said in a written release.

The governor failed in attempts to stop public employees from using overtime to calculate pension and to cut vacations, holiday and sick leave for new public employees. He also had wanted to eliminate binding arbitration for all but police and firefighters so that employees could strike. Cayetano said binding arbitration settlements were proving too costly.

The new law allows allows various government groups such as the counties, Department of Education, University of Hawaii, community hospitals and Judiciary to negotiate supplemental work contracts and allow employers to discharge employees for failure to meet performance requirements.

Pearl Harbor to host USS Stennis overnight

The nuclear aircraft carrier USS Stennis is to arrive at Pearl Harbor today for a brief overnight stay on its way to its San Diego home port after a six-month Pacific deployment.

The Stennis is not part of this year's biennial Rim of the Pacific naval war games, which conclude this week.

Corrections The Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees voted down the 4-division organizational plan on June 16. A story yesterday said a board committee voted down the plan last week. Clyde Tamaru is a board member of the Waikalua Loko Fishpond Preservation Society and an aquaculture specialist with the Sea Grant Extension Service at the University of Hawaii. His name was misspelled in a story Friday.

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Police, Fire, Courts



By Star-Bulletin staff

Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers

Pali Golf Course worker booked in theft of $300

Police arrested another city golf course employee yesterday, this time at the Pali Golf Course.

The 66-year-old McCully man was a starter at the golf course, police said.

He is accused of stealing at least $300.

The man was booked for second-degree theft and released pending further investigation.

Police said he was arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into corruption at city golf courses.

But they would not comment about whether the man was also being investigated for taking bribes in exchange for tee times.

Last week, two employees were arrested at the Ala Wai Golf Course.

The employees allegedly accepted thousands of dollars in exchange for prime tee times.

Kauai police identify man found shot dead

LIHUE -- Kauai police have identified the man found shot to death in his Wainiha home Monday night as Jeffrey Brisebois, 48, a longtime resident.

Brisebois lived alone on Powerhouse Road in an isolated mountainous area where most homes, including his, cannot be seen by passing motorists. Brisebois was involved in litigation with many other property owners on the north shore.

Lt. Bill Ching, chief of detectives, said that as of this morning he has not ruled out the possibility of a suicide although police are treating it as a murder.

An autopsy was scheduled for today. "That should answer a lot of questions," Ching said.

Sailors allegedly threw luggage from 23rd floor

Two sailors were arrested yesterday for allegedly stealing luggage from the Hawaii Prince Hotel and throwing it out a window.

A hotel guest left his baggage unattended in the hallway for the luggage handlers to pick up, police said. When hotel staff went to pick up the bags, they were missing.

A short while later, witnesses saw the sailors throwing luggage out of a 23rd-floor window of the hotel.

The sailors, stationed on the USS John C. Stennis carrier, admitted to the theft after being questioned by police.

One man, 21, was arrested for second-degree theft and reckless endangerment.

The other, 22, was arrested for second-degree theft.

Sparklers started fire at Hickam housing

Two juveniles playing with sparklers started a June 18 fire that caused $250,000 damage to three Onizuka Village housing units at Hickam Air Force Base.

Sparks from the sparklers ignited paper in a storage shed, and the fire quickly spread to the main structure, investigators said.

Driver ID'd in fatal SUV wreck on Kauai

LIHUE -- A Kauai man who was killed Monday evening near Waimea when the sport utility vehicle he was driving hit a Kauai County bus has been identified by police as Henry Soares, 36, of Kekaha.

Big Isle police seize Kona-side pot plants

KAILUA-KONA -- Police seized 3,875 marijuana plants during an eradication operation in North and South Kona Monday and yesterday, they said.

No arrests were made nor incidents reported.

Girls still in hospital after nearly drowning

Two girls remained hospitalized today after nearly drowning yesterday afternoon at Keehi Lagoon.

A 12-year-old girl was in critical condition this morning, and her 11-year-old sister is in stable condition, said Kapiolani Hospital officials.

Emergency Medical Services Chief Robin McCulloch says people at the park saved the children.

The girls were about 20 feet from shore when bystanders brought them in and gave the girls cardiopumonary resuscitation, which was key to their survival.

"They deserve a lot of credit for what they did," McCulloch said.