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MEDIA RELEASE Hawaii Island Humane Society’s 5th annual Hawaii Horse Expo is Saturday, Aug. 11 and Sunday, Aug. 12 on the Big Island. In a new partnership with the Paniolo Preservation Society, the event will be co-hosted at the Paniolo Heritage Center at Pukalani Stables in Waimea. Proceeds from the annual event benefit the Humane [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE The county Department of Parks and Recreation has reopened the keiki playground at Kawananakoa Gym in Hilo following completion of safety repairs to its rubberized surface. The Keaukaha community and Hilo Councilman Dennis “Fresh” Onishi played vital roles in securing the funding needed to restore the playground so it could be returned to [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Charging officials of the state Department of Public Safety with unlawful discrimination in deciding who has the right to marry, the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii Foundation on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on behalf of four women who submitted multiple marriage applications and were banned from being able [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Hawaii Island District 2 state Sen. Gilbert Kahele’s 2012 legislative accomplishments included $35 million in new projects for Hawaii Island. Kahele will host a 2012 Legislative Update for East Hawaii residents 5 p.m. June 19 at Hilo High School Cafeteria. “This year’s session was extremely productive for Hawaii Island. The CIP projects and [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz is serving as acting governor while Gov. Neil Abercrombie is on personal leave through Friday, May 18. The governor is visiting family in New York state. Also on May 18, Schatz will travel to Taiwan and Korea where he will meet with officials, including the president of Taiwan, to [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Big Island police have charged a 72-year-old Puna man in connection with a shooting Sunday evening (May 13) at a home in Panaʻewa. Joseph Amormino of Hawaiian Beaches was charged at 3:23 p.m. Tuesday (May 15) with first-degree attempted murder, two counts of second-degree attempted murder, burglary, use of a firearm in the [...]

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By Hawaii 24/7 Staff Fire/rescue crews responded to a 7:04 a.m. alarm Tuesday morning to North Kohala for a man reported missing. Upon arrival, while speaking to the missing man’s wife, police notified firefighters that the man had been spotted sitting on the rocky shoreline, fatigued and was unable to climb back up a cliff [...]

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A Ka’u man was arrested Monday, after a Grand Jury indicted him for murder in the 2006 death of his wife.

Daniel DeJarnette, 59, of Ocean View is charged with second-degree murder for the November 12, 2006, death of 56-year-old Yu DeJarnette.

On that date, Kaʻū patrol officers responded to the DeJarnette home in Hawaiian Ocean View Estates to a reported home accident. Yu DeJarnette had reportedly been found by her husband lying on a lava embankment near their house.

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A Puna woman was arrested last week and held on $1 million bail after being charged with heroin and weapons offenses.

On Thursday (May 10), Vice officers served a narcotics search warrant on a Melekule Street home in the Orchidland subdivision, where they recovered approximately a pound of heroin, digital scales, packaging materials, two firearms and $5,200 in cash.

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The Save More Tomorrow Act builds on the Thrift Savings Plan Enhancement Act of 2009. Under the 2009 Act, all new Federal employees are automatically enrolled in the TSP unless they opt out. The Save More Tomorrow Act would adjust the TSP’s automatic enrollment mechanism from the current default employee contribution rate of three percent of basic pay, increasing the contribution rate by one percent per year to at least five percent.

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During the week of May 7, 2012, through May 13, 2012, Big Island police arrested 24 motorists for drunk driving. Four of the drivers were involved in traffic crashes. Three were under the age of 21.

So far this year, there have been 526 DUI arrests compared with 541 during the same period last year, a decrease of 2.8 percent.

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MEDIA RELEASE Bob Marx says banks must be broken up to increase competition and prevent future taxpayer funded bailouts from occurring. Marx, Democratic Candidate and small business owner in Hilo, Hawaii, Monday called on Congress to pass legislation to decentralize control of the country’s financial institutions. The announcement that JP Morgan Chase had a $2 [...]

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