2 children hurt in Kailua crash

An 8-year-old boy was in critical condition and a 7-year-old girl in serious condition Saturday after a single-vehicle crash in Kailua that police suspect involved speeding and drunken driving.

A 32-year-old man was driving Kailua-bound in a 1986 Toyota pickup with the children in the cab on Kalanianaole Highway near Kamehameha Highway at about 10 p.m., police said.

The man was passing vehicles when he lost control of the truck in a right-hand bend in the roadway, hit the left guardrail and overturned about two times before coming to rest in the right shoulder, police said.

Police were trying to determine whether the passengers were ejected. The boy and girl were taken to the Queen's Medical Center, and the man was treated at Castle Medical Center.

He was arrested on suspicion of first-degree negligent injury and drunken driving.

2 people stabbed at park in Kona

Hawaii island police have arrested a 58-year-old Kona man who allegedly stabbed two people, including a woman who remains hospitalized, Saturday at Kahaluu Beach Park in Kona.

The woman, 41, and a 51-year-old man, both from Kona, were with friends in the park's pavilion at about 7:40 p.m. when an argument began, police said. The woman was stabbed in the back, and when the man went to help her, he was stabbed in the right side. The suspect fled.

Both victims were taken to the Kona Community Hospital, where the man was treated and released. The woman remained in guarded condition yesterday.

Officers found the suspect at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday in an abandoned stone church across from the park. He was booked on suspicion of first-degree and second-degree assault.

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3 more found guilty in Maui drug case

Three more defendants have been convicted in connection with the largest drug seizure in Maui history.

A federal jury in Fresno, Calif., has found Eustorgio Flores, Pioquinto Larios Santacruz and Rodolfo F. Suarez Jr. guilty of drug conspiracy. They face a minimum of 20 years to a maximum of life imprisonment.

Five other California defendants, including Flores' wife, Hortencia, entered guilty pleas before trial.

Police recovered 18 pounds of cocaine and six pounds of crystal methamphetamine worth more than $1 million when they raided Patrick Aniban's Kahului home in January 2007.

Aniban was sentenced to 20 years in prison. At least three other defendants, including his wife, Ohia, were also convicted.