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Grammy Award-winning and multi-platinum selling hip-hop artist Coolio is coming to Honolulu March 24 to film a music video and perform in concert at Hawaiian Waters Adventure Park. Coolio to play concert,
film video in islesThe concert will be part of the Xtreme Break Kick Off Party featuring Coolio, Pati and KC and Island Boy.
Coolio is also starring in the new motion picture "Tyrone," written and directed by Punahou graduate Chris Palzis, 32. In the film, Coolio plays the title character, twin brother and triplet sister.
The video to be filmed in Hawaii will feature music from the soundtrack.
The Xtreme party will also feature a computer give-away contest in which the school with the best essay will receive 15 computers and a Fujifilm FinePix 2400 Zoom Digital Camera. The contest is hosted by Xtreme Radio 104.3.
Applications may be submitted through the radio station or dropped off at Jeans Warehouse locations. Other sponsors include Meadow Gold, Jeans Warehouse, Wireless Paradise and Fujifilm Hawaii.
Tickets for the party go on sale Thursday, at $15 for kids ages 4-11 and $18 for adults. They can be bought at Wireless Paradise, Local Motion and Hawaiian Waters Adventure Park.
Scuba diver in group drowns off Kauai
LIHUE -- A 36-year-old man apparently drowned in waters off Poipu yesterday morning while scuba diving.Doug Fisher of Tempe, Ariz., was diving with a group when he was discovered missing just before 10:30 am.
He was found 15 feet under water by a dive instructor and brought to shore, where efforts to revive him failed.
Pacific cleanup nets 24 tons of fishing trash
Cleanup of marine debris in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands last fall removed 24 tons of line and abandoned nets from reefs, islands and atolls.Details on this cleanup and the danger of marine debris washing through this refuge, home to several protected and endangered species, will be discussed by Roy Boland, of the National Marine Fisheries Service, at 6 p.m. Thursday at Hawaii Kai Library.
The number of Hawaiian monk seals observed entangled in debris rises each year. The debris also damages coral.
For information, call Jeff Kuwabara, Hanauma Bay Education Program specialist, at 397-5840.
Wailuku library receives $42,000 Pizza Hut grant
Twenty percent of Hawaii's adult population have reading skills that are far below the level needed to earn a living wage, says the Hawaii Public Library System.With this in mind, help is on the way for Maui residents, who will soon have a new literacy center for adult learners at Wailuku Library.
State Librarian Virginia Lowell has announced this library is the recipient of a $42,000 grant from the Pizza Hut Fund for Literacy. This grant will be used to build a Multi-Media Literacy Center at the library, which will offer free services to help adults to improve not only in reading but also in writing, math and English.
The center will include three computer work stations, as well as two TV/VCR units with a library of videotapes on various topics such as reading and math. Volunteer tutors will staff the center.
Wailuku Library is at 251 High St., across from the Maui County Building. Call 243-5766.
'Final Exit' author gives free talk at Ala Wai
A free seminar on "The Future of the Right-to-Die Movement" will be presented 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Ala Wai Golf Course Clubhouse by Derek Humphry.Humphry is the author of "Final Exit."
Tomorrow
Some events of interest
7 p.m., Kalihi Valley District Park: Kalihi Valley Neighborhood Board meeting, 1911 Kam IV Road.
Corrections
Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
Two tourists were robbed at gunpoint of $2,900 in cash near the McCoy Pavilion at Ala Moana Park about 6:30 a.m. today, police said. Five men with gun
rob tourists of cashJason Needham, 26, a nurse at Valley Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas, and Avery Arbuckle, 28, a longline fisherman from Alaska, told police they were on their way to swim when five men approached them from behind.
One man pointed a gun, possibly a .45-caliber handgun, and told them to get down on their knees, police said.
The robbers took $1,100 from Arbuckle and $1,800 from Needham. Needham's credit cards and bag also were taken.
The victims were planning to return home Friday, using the stolen money to purchase airline tickets, Needham said. Both arrived in Hawaii last Wednesday and were staying at the Island Hostel on Ala Moana.
"I've always been treated nice in Hawaii," said Needham, who visits Hawaii once a year.
The gunman is described as 6 feet, between 200 to 240 pounds, with a tattoo behind his neck and on his arms.
He was wearing a red shirt and black pants with white strips on the sides.
Police were seeking help for the victims at the Visitor Aloha Society of Hawaii.
A man awaiting trial for the murder of a stepdaughter more than 15 years ago has fled from a residential program he was released to nearly three years ago. Suspect in child's death flees custody
A $100,000 warrant for Vern E. King's arrest has been issued and state prosecutors are seeking to revoke his supervised release.
King was to go to trial the week of April 2 for second-degree murder for the May 1985 death of his 2-year-old stepdaughter. The girl's mother was a Navy sailor stationed here when her daughter was killed.
His name was placed on a national crime bulletin after an Oahu grand jury indicted him in December 1996. He was located in Minneapolis and returned here in September 1997.
At King's request, Circuit Judge Melvin Soong set aside bail in April 1998 and placed him on supervised release to Victory Ohana, a transitional residential program that helps former inmates get their lives back together.
As a condition, King was required to report any intended change of address and reasons for moving to the Oahu Intake Service Center, which supervises pretrial detainees. He was also prohibited from leaving the island without obtaining the court's permission.
In seeking his release, then-deputy public defender David Hayakawa noted that King did not pose a danger to the community or anyone connected to the case since the death happened quite some time ago.
Also, the girl's mother, King's ex-wife, had moved to the mainland and had no contact with him.
Victory Ohana is located on Kaaahi Street in Iwilei. Director and founder Gary Shields could not be reached for comment.
Anyone with information on King's whereabouts is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300.
Slaying suspect violated 1997 restraining order
The man suspected of stabbing a former girlfriend to death in Waialae yesterday was convicted of violating a temporary restraining order nearly four years ago.According to court records, the suspect, 32, was arrested May 6, 1997, on three misdemeanor counts of violating the restraining order filed by his mother, Anita Jones.
He was convicted more than a month later and sentenced to 35 days in jail and a year's probation.
The TRO violations were among 27 convictions the suspect has amassed since September 1986, mostly for misdemeanor offenses and traffic violations.
Another woman filed a restraining order against him in 1992.
He has one felony conviction for first-degree terroristic threatening in July 1988. But he was not sentenced until April 1992, to five years in prison.
The suspect's ex-girlfriend, 38, was found bleeding from a knife wound to the neck at her Keanu Street apartment after 4:50 a.m. yesterday by her 8-year-old son.
A kitchen knife was recovered on the stairs and is believed to be the murder weapon.
The suspect turned himself in to the Pearl City Police Station at about noon yesterday. Police said second-degree murder charges may be filed by tonight or tomorrow morning.
Police said the suspect and the victim were living together off and on for about a year. Detectives said when the woman tried to end the relationship about a month and a half ago, the suspect allegedly stalked the victim, slashed her tires of her Jeep and made verbal threats.
Police said the victim's son is staying with his stepsister in the North Shore area.
Fire Department has a busy night
Two brush fires to go along with a Leeward-area mercury threat placed such demands on the Fire Department last night that about one-third of the entire force was deployed shortly after 8 p.m.The term for it is Level 1 Manning, said Capt. Richard Soo, Fire Department spokesman.
One fire started in a vacant site close to 94-206 Kaloli Place shortly before 8 p.m. near Royal Kunia and Kulana Knoll. Homes surrounded the fire site on three sides, Soo said. But four engine companies and two tankers brought it under control at about 8:30 p.m., with no property damage.
A Waialua brush fire reported near 67-668 Kea Place shortly before 6:30 p.m. brought out two engines and three tankers. It was brought under control at 7:29 p.m. and later extinguished with no property damage.
"It was a busy night for the Fire Department," Soo said.
