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President Bush and first lady Laura Bush waved as they arrived onstage yesterday at the Republican Governors Association reception in Washington. At left were Gov. Linda Lingle, Idaho Gov. Dick Kemperthorne and Indiana Gov. Joseph Kernan. Bush took aim at U.S. Sen. John Kerry during a speech at the fund-raiser.
Grand jury indicts woman on tax charges
An Oahu grand jury has indicted a Honolulu woman for second-degree theft, failure to file a state income tax return for 2001 and filing false tax returns for 1998, 1999 and 2000.Rosemond J. Nebres faces five years in prison and a fine of $10,000 on the theft charge. For filing a false statement, she faces three years in prison and a maximum fine of $100,000.
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GRANTS
>> The Alexander & Baldwin Foundation has awarded $2,000 to Na Loio -- Immigrant Rights and Public Interest Legal Center for general operations. Free legal service is provided to indigent immigrants in court, battered women and children, asylum seekers, disabled naturalization applicants, trafficking victims and others.>> Child and Family Service has received grants from the following agencies:
$25,000 from the Bank of Hawaii Charitable Foundation;
$10,000 from the Sidney Stern Memorial Trust, toward the cost of building a playground with special safety features at Hau'oli Na Keiki, a school for autistic children;
From the Hawaii Visitor Industry Walk, $5,000 to purchase recreational materials for the Kona Group Home, $3,000 to support the Gerontology Chore Services and $2,000 for supplies at Hale Ohana in Hilo;
$40,000 from the Victoria S. and Bradley L. Geist Foundation to support the Foster Parents/Foster Parent Recruitment, Training and Support Network;
$5,000 from Kamehameha Schools to assist with the recent conference "Children of Prisoners: Impact on the Innocent";
And $10,000 from the Ellen M. Koenig Memorial Trust toward shelter operations.
>> Esther and Edwin Naeole, of Pukalani, Maui, have received a Habitat for Humanity Maui single-family home on Hawaiian Homestead Lands in the Waiahuli subdivision in Kula. They have been on the waiting list for more than 10 years. As a corporate partner of the national Habitat for Humanity, Marriott & Renaissance Resorts helped finance the construction of the home with a $50,000 donation.
>> Employees of Hawaiian Electric Co. donated more than 60 boxes of food and toiletries, more than 40 bags of rice and more than $3,200 during their annual food drive. The donations were presented to the Institute of Human Services, the Salvation Army and Angel Network Charities.
>> The Outdoor Circle has received $18,723 from the Kaulunani Urban Forestry Program of the state Department of Land & Natural Resources to fund a project called "Proper Tree Care on Hawaii's School Campuses." The Outdoor Circle will create a tree-care manual for distribution to every school in Hawaii, then hold 11 seminars to present the manual to school administrators.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHONOLULU
Man sought in stabbing at Kalihi recreation center
Police are looking for a man in his 20s who allegedly stabbed a 22-year-old man at a Kalihi recreation center Sunday night.The stabbing occurred just before 10 p.m. at Kalakaua District Park at 720 McNeill St.
After playing basketball at the park, the victim and five or six friends met the suspect at the parking lot at 9:30 p.m., police said. An unknown male struck the suspect, police said.
The suspect then pulled out a knife and chased the victim and his friends, police said. The suspect allegedly stabbed the victim in the stomach. The victim was taken by ambulance to the Queen's Medical Center in critical condition with an 8-inch puncture wound to the stomach and liver, police said.
Estranged wife held in alleged intrusion
The 37-year-old estranged wife of a Kalihi man allegedly broke down the door of the man's new home after she heard him with another woman, police said.The couple had been separated for three months when the woman went to her husband's home about 1 a.m. Sunday, according to police. The woman broke down the front door and tried to enter the locked bedroom by breaking down the door, police said. The husband, 37, pushed his wife out of his house.
The wife also allegedly scraped the husband's girlfriend's car with a key and fled, police said.
She was arrested for first-degree burglary and fourth-degree criminal property damage.
WINDWARD OAHU
Police arrest boy, 9, in school biting incident
Police arrested a 9-year-old Kahuku boy after he bit a Kahuku school vice principal, 50, who tried to carry him to class yesterday morning.Police said the vice principal first tried to talk to the student, who refused to leave his parent's vehicle to go to class just before 8:10 a.m. yesterday.
The male vice principal, 50, then picked the boy up and began carrying him to class. Police said the boy "got mad" and bit the vice principal in the left arm, "causing pain and bruising."
The boy was arrested for second-degree assault. He was released pending investigation.
Condo fire damage estimated at $230,000
Fire investigators have estimated the damage in a Waimanalo townhouse fire Saturday as $180,000 to the building and $50,000 to its contents.The cause is under investigation. The fire started in the townhouse at 664 Kaaumana Place at 8:04 a.m. A mother and daughter escaped unharmed.
WAIKIKI
Area resident charged in golf course burglary
Police charged a 26-year-old Waikiki man with second-degree burglary Saturday after a break-in at the Ala Wai Golf Course.Brad Storck was arrested Friday after he was caught with items belonging to the golf course, according to police.
Storck's bail was set at $11,000. He remains in custody and was scheduled to appear in court this morning.
LEEWARD OAHU
Motorcyclist who died ID'd as Waipahu man
The city medical examiner's office has identified the motorcyclist who died after crashing into a parked sport utility vehicle in Waikele as Christian Ignacio.Police said Ignacio lost control of the motorcycle while driving in a curve on Lumiaina Street 5:54 p.m. Saturday. He then "laid the bike down" and slid into the SUV, police said.
The 20-year-old Waipahu man was taken to St. Francis-West Medical Center, where he later died.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Kailua-Kona man is held in stabbing
Big Island police arrested a 42-year-old Kailua-Kona man wanted for allegedly stabbing his former girlfriend Sunday.Suspect Darrell Inere allegedly entered his former girlfriend's Captain Cook, South Kona, home before 5 a.m. Sunday. Police said he got into an argument with the 51-year-old woman, stabbed her in the abdomen and fled.
Inere was arrested at a home yesterday in Keauhou-mauka.
The woman was taken to Kona Community Hospital in stable condition.
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