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It's prize-winning time for the city bus service, with TheBus named "America's Best Transit System" for 2000-2001. TheBus named best U.S. transit
It's the second time in the past six years TheBus has won this award.
TheBus and Handi-Van together are among the largest employers in the state with more than 1,600 employees. The last time TheBus and Handi-Van were chosen as North America's Best Large Transit System was 1994.
The large transit system category includes about 50 of the larger transit systems in the United States and Canada.
Honor loved ones with dove ornaments
Bereaved families are invited to remember their loved ones with a personal message on a dove ornament for trees at certain locations.The "Honoring Our Loved Ones" memorial campaign is sponsored by Hospice Hawaii, Inc., with the city and county of Honolulu, and Hawaiian Insurance and Guarantee Co.
Hospice Hawaii provides end-of-life care and services to terminally ill patients on Oahu. It has decorated trees for ornaments at the following locations:
For more information about hospice services or bereavement support, call 924-9255.Ala Moana Satellite City Hall, Ala Moana Shopping Center, ground level.
Breast cancer info program receives grant of $32,995
The "Tell-A-Friend" program for early detection of breast cancer has received $32,995 from the Hawaii Community Foundation's Robert Emens Black Fund.The American Cancer Society Hawaii Pacific program will focus on those least likely to get regular mammograms, including Filipinos, Native Hawaiians and newcomers from Asian and Pacific Island nations.
Mortality rates are higher among Hawaiian and Filipino women although incidence of breast cancer is the same as in other ethnic populations, according to the society.
Cambodia charges isle man in rape of girl, 15
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- A Cambodian court has charged a Hawaii man with rape and indecent assault after he was found with a 15-year-old prostitute in his Phnom Penh hotel room last week, officials said today."I charged him with raping a 15-year-old girl," municipal court prosecutor Ngeth Sarath said.
"According to the law, he will face up to 10 years in prison" if found guilty.
James Curtis Parks, a 57-year-old tourist from Hawaii, was arrested Wednesday after police were tipped off that he was having sex with an underage prostitute.
Parks has denied the charges. "I haven't had sex with her, and I did nothing wrong. This is unfair to me," he told reporters as he was being taken to court. After the initial court appearance, he was taken back to the detention center.
Under Cambodian law, Parks has to be tried in six months or released.
Children's rights experts have complained that few foreigners suspected of child-sex crimes have been prosecuted.
Women's affairs minister Mu Sochua in August proposed expelling any foreigners suspected -- but not necessarily convicted -- of sex crimes.
Kamehameha's Chun speaks to Chaminade
Michael Chun, Kamehameha Schools president, will speak at this evening's Chaminade University commencement at Blaisdell Concert Hall. It will begin at 7.Two students, Roslyn Makaula and Maureen Kleintocp, also will speak.
The school will award 298 degrees. Criminal Justice majors accounted for nearly 20 percent of all degrees, including 25 bachelor's, nine master's and 17 associate degrees.
Business majors accounted for 51 of the degrees, including 14 undergraduates, 32 MBAs and two associates.
Bishop Museum gets science-center grant
The Bishop Museum will receive $125,000 for its planned Science Learning Center from Bank of Hawaii.The donation, to be made in three increments, was announced by the bank's president, Richard Dahl.
The fund-raising goal for the first phase of construction is $25.5 million.
The museum said it has already secured $14 million from government and private sources.
New skippers assigned to Pearl Harbor ships
Two Pearl Harbor-based ships have new skippers.Capt. John J. Hammerer Jr. took over from Capt. Leonard W. Capello on the Aegis-class guided missile cruiser USS Lake Erie.
In addition, Cmdr. Taylor W. Skardon relieved Cmdr. David C. Hulse aboard the USS O'Kane, Hawaii's newest Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer.
The two ships are the only Navy vessels to have been commissioned in Pearl Harbor. The Lake Erie was commissioned on July 24, 1993, and the O'Kane on Oct. 23, 1999.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
LIHUE-- Kauai police today identified the woman stabbed to death in a Poipu restaurant on Friday as Michelle Ramos, 26, of Lihue. Police identify waitress
stabbed to death on KauaiDetectives also released the name of her assailant and former boyfriend, Ryan Masumoto, 32, who they said apparently hanged himself at a south shore beach later that afternoon.
Ramos was a waitress at Keoki's Restaurant in Poipu, where she was killed.
A restaurant employee said Masumoto formerly worked at a nearby restaurant as a waiter but had been fired.
Inspector Melvin Morris said the two had lived together previously and had a 22-month-old daughter.
He characterized the argument that led to the stabbing as a "domestic dispute." Contrary to initial reports that the stabbing took place in front of the restaurant, Morris said it happened inside.
Death at Ala Moana no longer a homicide probe
The death of 60-year-old Linda Asuncion, run over by a sports utility vehicle last Monday at Ala Moana Park, is no longer being investigated as a homicide, police said.Asuncion's 49-year-old boyfriend, who was driving the vehicle, fled the scene. He was arrested Friday in Waimanalo and released yesterday without being charged.
Crash of speeding SUV injures three people
A 20-year-old man and 16-year-old female are in fair condition at Queen's Medical Center after they were ejected from a sports utility vehicle when it overturned on Kapaa Quarry Road Saturday night.The driver, also a 20-year-old man, was treated and released.
The driver had been traveling southbound at about 9:40 p.m. when he overtook another vehicle, went up an incline and around a bend in the road before losing control of his Ford Explorer.
Police said speed was a factor in the accident. The 20-year-old passenger was in critical condition and was transported by helicopter to Queen's; his condition has since been upgraded.
Utility pole accident cuts power in Manoa
No serious injuries were reported from an early-morning traffic incident in Manoa Valley today that knocked out electrical power to several hundred homes.One of two cars, which were possibly racing, struck a utility pole on Oahu Avenue near Anuenue Street at 2:30 a.m., causing the outage.
Police nail man in theft of construction tools
Police arrested a 36-year-old man early today for stealing tools from a construction site on Auahi Street.Security officers saw the suspect loading items into the trunk of a car at about 11:30 p.m. yesterday.
The man fled on foot as the security officers approached but was later arrested by police.
Aiea man killed in Maui accident
A 22-year-old Aiea man was killed on Maui's Hana Highway Saturday when the Chevrolet Blazer in which he was riding overturned, police said.The man was in the front passenger seat in the rental vehicle. The driver, a 19-year-old Aiea man, was treated at Maui Memorial Hospital and released. Two female passengers, 19 and 20, also of Aiea, were not injured.
Police are investigating whether speed and alcohol were factors in the single-car accident.
