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By Star-Bulletin Staff

Bone marrow donors can
register during Blaisdell’s
new-products event

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The St. Francis Medical Center Hawaii Bone Marrow Donor Registry will conduct a series of bone marrow donor registration drives through Sunday at the Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall.

The drives, being held during the 38th Annual Food and New Products Show, are today, 5 to 10 p.m.; tomorrow, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Registered donors are matched with patients who need bone marrow transplants because of terminal blood diseases. The registry seeks to sign up as many potential donors as possible, especially those of Asian and Pacific Island ancestry.

Donors must be 18 to 60 years old and in general good health. A small sample of blood is collected for tissue typing.

For more information, call 547-6154.

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By Star-Bulletin staff

Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers

DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARBULLETIN.COM Deputy sheriffs manned a roadblock last night on Lagoon Drive with guns drawn, turning away traffic.

HONOLULU

Sheriffs open fire at security checkpoint

Police and state sheriffs are looking for a man who they say ran through a Honolulu Airport security checkpoint and injured two deputy sheriffs last night.

Police and sheriffs officials said that sometime before 6:13 p.m., the male suspect drove up to the Lagoon Drive checkpoint in a vehicle with flashing blue lights and stopped for an ID check. Police said the suspect gave the sheriffs a stolen identification card when they asked for identification.

When deputy sheriffs ran the car license plate, they discovered the vehicle was stolen. The suspect then took off, grazing two sheriffs.

He drove on Aolele Street and escaped onto the H-1 viaduct.

Sheriffs confirmed that officers fired shots at the suspect.

Emergency medical personnel said the two injured deputies, ages 30 and 48, were in stable condition and walked into the Queens Medical Center emergency room after being taken there by ambulance.

Lagoon Drive was shut down for more than three hours in both directions during the investigation.

"There were cars backed up waiting to get through, maybe about 30 of them when I was in line," said Jacob Straube, an employee of Straube's Airport Services near Lagoon Drive.