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Campbell principal named national finalist
Gail Awakuni, principal of Campbell High School, has been named one of three finalists for the National High School Principal of the Year award for 2005.The program is sponsored by MetLife and the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Each finalist receives a $1,500 grant to help their school's students. The winner, to be announced this month, gets another $3,500.
Awakuni has led a redesign effort at the 1,900-student school that includes small learning communities, a rigorous curriculum and a block schedule.
Judge stands pat on luxury project
KEALAKEKUA, Hawaii >> A Circuit Court judge has denied defendants' motions to reconsider his decision that stopped work on the Hokulia luxury residential development on the Big Island's Kona Coast.Community groups and individuals filed suit against Hokulia's developers, 1250 Oceanside Partners, seeking to halt construction of the 1,500-acre project overlooking Kealakekua Bay. The proposed $350 million development featured 700 house lots and a golf course.
Judge Ronald Ibarra ruled last year that the proposed project was illegal use of agriculturally zoned land. The developer plans to appeal.
By Star-Bulletin staff
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WAIKIKI
Vehicle theft suspects are caught after chase Police caught two Waikiki men who fled on foot from a stolen vehicle yesterday morning at Ala Moana Center.
Police said a security officer at a Waikiki hotel reported a suspicious car, and police discovered the car had been stolen Sept. 7 at Ala Moana Center. Police issued an all-points bulletin for the car.
An officer, hearing the APB, spotted the gray 1989 Toyota Camry at the Atkinson Street side of Ala Moana Center.
Police said a 24-year-old man who was driving the car jumped the sidewalk, left the car running in the shopping center parking lot on the Ala Moana Boulevard side and ran. Officer Brett Ryan chased him down and caught him near CenterStage. Police caught a 23-year-old man, a passenger in the car, who fled toward Atkinson Drive.
Paramedics treated the suspects, who were pepper-sprayed by police.
WEST OAHU
Musician doesn't deliver in fund-raiser A local musician has snagged at least a dozen victims in a chicken sale scam, police said.
The artist's name was not released.
Police said tickets for "whole, golden-brown" chickens were sold for $7.50 each to residents in Aiea's Waimalu Shopping Center parking lot late last month. The funds were billed as going to a local musician, and chickens were supposed to be available for pickup at the shopping center Sunday. But when those with tickets arrived, there was no one cooking or selling chickens.
The tickets said the chickens would be provided by Bob's Hawaiian Style Chicken Co. The company's owner, Bob Mauru, said last night that he never got the money for the chickens and so could not give the chickens out.
He said he has received about 15 calls from residents who bought tickets and that 700 tickets had been prepared for the sale. It is unclear how many tickets were sold. Mauru said he has been unable to get in touch with the musician.
Victims are asked to contact CrimeStoppers at 529-3950.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Meth lab discovery leads to arrest A 28-year-old woman has been arrested on several drug counts after Big Island police found what is believed to be a crystal methamphetamine lab in her Kona home.
The suspect was arrested on four counts of suspicion of promoting a dangerous drug and five counts of drug possession. She was released pending investigation.
Police said that about 6:05 a.m. Tuesday, West Hawaii Ice Task Force officers executed a search warrant for the home.
Police found 1.1 grams of marijuana and a gram of crystal methamphetamine at her home. They also recovered 12 pounds of a liquid substance that tested positive for methamphetamine.
Convicted sex offender nabbed on Big Island
Big Island police have arrested a 26-year-old man wanted in Washington.Carl William Lindsey was arrested Wednesday in Naalehu. County prosecutors have begun extradition proceedings against him, police said.
Lindsey failed to report to the Department of Corrections in Cowlitz County after being released from the Washington Correctional Center on March 31, police said.
He is a convicted child sex offender and has convictions in three states for theft, shoplifting, burglary, felony assault and sexual assault, police said. He is being held without bail in the Hilo police cellblock.
Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers