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With rates of youth suicide in Hawai‘i on the rise in the last decade, the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa medical school has been awarded $1.4 million to intervene as early as possible in childrens’ lives to prevent suicide.

A measure of how serious Hawai’i's problem has become, the medical school’s three-year award is part of more than $45 million being allocated to support state-wide suicide prevention efforts.

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Big Island police have completed a negligent homicide investigation into the December 13 motor vehicle/pedestrian collision on Hawai’i Belt Road (Route 19) in the Hāmākua District.

On that date, a 54-year-old Hilo man was operating a 2009 Peterbuilt tractor-trailer and traveling west on Route 19 when the tractor-trailer struck a 39-year-old Honoka’a man, who stepped out into the roadway and died from his injuries.

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Jolene Medeiros, 24, of Hilo was pronounced dead Saturday morning (January 2) from injuries sustained in a shooting on December 30 in Pi’ihonua.

An autopsy to determine the exact cause of death is scheduled for Tuesday (January 5).

Detectives have reclassified the case from an attempted murder and suicide to a murder and suicide.

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