HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Man suspected of injuring girl
Advertiser Staff
A 42-year-old Kaka'ako man was arrested yesterday after a 4-year-old girl showed up at school with injuries to her arm and hand.
The man, who is the girl's guardian, was booked on suspicion of first-degree assault. He remained in custody last night pending charges.
Officials at the school told police that they found a large blister on the girl's hand and a welt on her arm yesterday. The girl told police that a man she calls "auntie" burned her hand on the stove as punishment and later struck her on the arm with a belt.
The girl was taken to a hospital for treatment. She and a younger sister were placed in the custody of state Human Services, police said.
KALIHI
BURIED FETUS CASE STILL UNSOLVED
Authorities have yet to determine the cause of death in the case of a fetus found buried in the yard of a house in Kalihi four months ago.
The city Department of the Medical Examiner also has not been able to determine if the case involves a live or stillbirth. The fetus was female, officials said.
Investigations by both the medical examiner and police remain open, officials said.
A woman whose family owns the home at 1610 Owawa St. found the decomposed remains May 26 while doing yard work at the home.
Tenants of the duplex home told police they did not know how the remains got there.
PEARLRIDGE
DOE BUDGET PLAN TO BE DISCUSSED
State legislators from Pearl City and 'Aiea will discuss the Department of Education's proposed weighted student formula at a community town meeting tomorrow.
The formula will change the way public schools receive their budgets in an effort to make funding across the Islands more equitable.
The meeting will take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Pearl Ridge Elementary School.
ALA MOANA
POISON KILLED KOI IN MALL POND
A necropsy done on several koi that died in an Ala Moana Center pond this summer revealed that a cleaning agent or fertilizer killed the ornamental carp.
However, it is not known whether the deaths were accidental, said Dwight Yoshimura, the center's senior general manager.
"What can you do?" he said yesterday. "Hopefully, it won't happen again."
In May, several of the fish in a blue-tile pond that runs down the center of the mall-level shopping corridor started dying. Surviving fish were pulled from the water and moved to the street-level pond outside Assaggio Ristorante Italiano.
Since the deaths, local residents and mall merchants have donated several koi and other fish to the pond.
