HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Probe launched into girl's death
Advertiser Staff
Police are investigating the death of a 4-month-old girl who was taken to a hospital this week with suspicious injuries.
The girl was brought to a hospital emergency room on Monday because she was vomiting, police said. Doctors noticed she had several suspicious injuries and notified state child welfare officials.
On Wednesday, the girl died at the hospital. The case has been classified as an unattended death pending the outcome of an autopsy, police said.
HAWAI'I KAI
MAN INJURED IN BOAT FIRE
A 45-year-old man was seriously injured yesterday in a boat fire at the Hawai'i Kai Marina.
The man was doing repair work on a boat moored near Keokea Place when the fire started. The Fire Department responded at 2:20 p.m. and Emergency Medical Services took the man in serious condition to Straub Hospital & Clinic at 2:50 p.m.
PEARL CITY
BANK ROBBERY SUSPECT ARRESTED
Police yesterday arrested a 43-year-old Waipahu man 10 minutes after a bank robbery at First Hawaiian Bank's Pearl City branch.
The robber passed a demand note to a teller at noon but left the counter before receiving any money.
The bank is near the Pearl City police substation and a man fitting the description of the robber was arrested by responding officers. The teller identified the suspect as the man who had passed the demand note.
MILILANI
SCHOOL TO HAVE $405K RENOVATION
Mililani Waena Elementary School will receive $405,000 in design and construction money from the state to renovate classrooms for use as special-education classrooms.
The project will help meet the school's need for special-education facilities and accommodate medically fragile students in the Mililani area.
Renovations are expected to be completed by summer 2007.
KAILUA
OLD MAUNAWILI TOUR TOMORROW
A historic site tour focusing on lifestyles in Maunawili Valley from 1840 to 1940 will take place at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow beginning at Ulupo Heiau in Kailua.
Paul Brennan, who has conducted archaeological surveys in Maunawili, will lead the tour that includes an old rice mill, poi factory, general stores and the Queen Lili'uokalani retreat. Nalani Olds will sing "Aloha 'Oe" at the retreat.
The tour is sponsored by 'Ahahui Malama I Ka Lokahi, the Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club, Kawai Nui Heritage Foundation and the Kailua Historical Society.
A $5 donation is requested and reservations can be made by calling Chuck Burrows at 595-3922 or e-mailing him at ahahui@hawaii.rr.com.
MAUI
FLOODING CLOSES PARK, HI 5¢ CENTER
The county has closed Baldwin Beach Park in Pa'ia while heavy equipment clears the flooded parking lot. Officials advise that the closure could extend through the weekend.
The Lahaina Redemption Center on Keawe Street, which accepted HI 5¢ containers, also is closed because of flooding. For more information, call the Recycle Maui County hot line at (808) 270-7880.
KAUA'I
MAN AGAIN FOUND GUILTY IN MURDER
William McCrory, 49, this week was found guilty for the second time in the murder of Brent "Kirby" Kerr at Nawiliwili on Oct. 26, 2001.
A previous conviction was reversed after the Hawai'i Supreme Court found that a witness had testified improperly during the trial. That witness, an inmate who had been in jail with McCrory, did not testify in the latest trial.
The latest jury deliberated for five hours before finding McCrory guilty of seconddegree murder.
COMMAND SHIFT AT MISSILE RANGE
MANA, Kaua'i — Capt. Mark Darrah will relieve Capt. Jeff Connelly Monday as commanding officer at the Pacific Missile Range Facility.
The missile range is active in weapons testing and fleet training, and gets most of its publicity as a site for testing of the Navy's anti-ballistic missile system.
Connelly, a Navy pilot, has run the missile range since 2003. He will retire shortly after giving up the command.
Darrah, a combat veteran Navy flight officer, was most recently the deputy program manager for the Navy's EA-18G electronic jamming aircraft.
Connelly took over the base during a period of high-security lockdown following the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon.
Kaua'i residents, who previously had comparatively free access to the base coastline for fishing, picnicking and surfing, had been excluded from the range's several miles of white sandy beach.
Connelly implemented a new system that allowed limited access for recreation.
