In a cart that can intercept students, truancy patrol members Leslie Mason and driver Rebekah DeCosta took a spin around Kapolei High School yesterday with a cameraman in tow. A group of 33 citizens recently formed the Kapolei Ohana Patrol Squad, or KOPS, to try to make sure students stay in school.
A Board of Education committee decided yesterday to confine its drug-sniffing dog program mainly to common areas of campuses, reversing a previous approval of random searches of lockers.
Gov. Linda Lingle has yet to call the state Legislature into special session this week as expected, saying she is waiting for "consensus" on a proposed bill to keep the Superferry alive.
The Bush administration "strongly opposes" a House bill to grant federal recognition to native Hawaiians, calling the measure discriminatory and divisive
