HAWAI'I BRIEFS
More U2 tickets offered for sale
Advertiser Staff
More tickets have been put on sale for U2's April 8 concert at Aloha Stadium.
Stadium spokesman Patrick Leonard said an additional 1,000 general-admission tickets went on sale Friday through Ticketmaster. In addition, just under 700 reserved seats were opened up in sections L, M, LL and MM.
General admission tickets are $49.50. Reserved seating is $165 and $95.
The concert's seating configuration was expanded to accommodate the additional tickets, according to a news release from Live Nation (formerly Clear Channel Entertainment), the show's co-promoter.
Tickets are available at the Aloha Stadium box office, Ticketmaster locations, (877) 750-4400 and at www.ticketmaster.com.
WAI'ANAE
MISSING FOSTER CHILD SOUGHT
The state Department of Human Services is hoping the public can help find a missing foster child from Wai'anae.
Matthew Alani, 13, was last seen Saturday at Piliuka Place, in Wai'anae.
He was wearing a white T-shirt, gray slippers and white and brown surf shorts.
Matthew is 4 feet 11 and 150 pounds, with short, dark brown hair and brown eyes.
Anyone who sees him or who has other information about the case is asked to call 911.
WINDWARD
HIGHWAY WORK READY TO BEGIN
A project to repave Kamehameha Highway between Waiahole Valley and the Crouching Lion Inn could begin this week, weather permitting, said Scott Ishikawa, spokesman for the state Department of Transportation.
The project is expected to last until June, and one lane of traffic will be closed at the construction site, Ishikawa said, adding that automobiles will be detoured onto the remaining lane.
The 7.5-mile project will begin at the Crouching Lion and take place between 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., he said.
STATEWIDE
NONPROFITS PLAN A TOWN MEETING
The Hawai'i Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations, a statewide coalition of more than 150 charitable organizations, will host 12 town hall meetings in February and March.
The meetings will focus on the nonprofit sector and what the alliance can do to support and strengthen nonprofit organizations.
BIG ISLAND
KONA MAN FACES U.S. TAX CHARGES
A Kona man has been charged with six counts of tax evasion for allegedly conspiring to avoid paying more than $800,000 in income tax over five years, the U.S. Attorney's office said.
On Feb. 9, a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging Hamlet C. Bennett with tax evasion from 1999 through 2003.
Bennett, an architect who runs his own firm, earned more than $2.3 million during that period but avoided paying $891,000 in income tax by creating several shell entities to hide his income, according to the indictment.
