- Convicted of stealing equity from distressed homeowners, John Mendoza is sentenced to six year prison and must pay nearly $900,000 in restitution. - The Yakama Nation wins a round in court against trash being shipped from Oahu to Washington state. - Public Safety officials say a man tried to hit sheriff deputies with a car when they tried to serve him a warrant. - The ACLU and Lamda Legal files a lawsuit fighting the veto of a civil unions bill. - Be part of KITV's u local community and send in photos and videos of news, events and island life. - New brush fires swept over nearly a thousand acres and prompted evacuations in rural Los Angeles County hills Thursday, while good weather to the north helped firefighters building containment lines around two wildfires that destroyed homes in remote mountain communities earlier in the week. - Sarah Palin is criticizing President Barack Obama for appearing on "The View." - Ellen DeGeneres is dancing off "American Idol" after one season, leaving Fox's hit show with two vacancies on its judging panel. - Councilman Donovan Dela Cruz says his campaign does not have the finances to maintain a run for mayor. - Two more candidates enter the race for Honolulu mayor. - Michelle Wie finds herself trailing the leaders by two strokes after the first round of the Women's British Open. - A Keaau man dies after his motorcycle crashes into a utility pole in Pahoa. - The carpenters union and a technology business group place their support behind gubernatorial candidates. - Jodi Leong and Paul Drewes will anchor KITV4 News This Morning: Weekend Edition. - Mililani residents showed up in droves to oppose an affordable housing project in their neighborhood.
- HILO -- As the biennial Rim of the Pacific exercise wraps up this weekend, the U.S. Navy is already preparing for expanded exercises in the future. - The back-and-forth between Ocean View residents and county Department of Water Supply officials continues while community members await a long-hoped-for well. - A top state Department of Transportation official asked residents Wednesday to support the agency's proposed six-year, $4 billion highways modernization plan, aimed to target backlogged road projects. - Oahu-based military units will convoy from Kawaihae Harbor to Pohakuloa Training Area from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, as well as between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday through Aug. 9.
- Having been together since 2005, Sean Smith and Kale Taylor are like many committed couples -- they want to make things official. - Double-digit increases in arrivals and spending last month have made summer hotter for Hawaii tourism, though it still lacks the sizzle it had a few years ago. - The Judiciary may shut down three of its part-time satellite courthouses on the Big Island temporarily because of a lack of sheriffs to provide security.  - The names of the characters may be the same and the backdrop is still Hawaii, but that's where the similarities end between the old and new "Hawaii Five-0," the re invented CBS series that should leave audiences breathless for more. - Former Schofield Barracks soldier Mark Heath apologized in Circuit Court yesterday to his victims, the U.S. Army, military veterans, the community and his former wife and her children for burglarizing University of Hawaii dormitories, stealing women's panties and for sexually assaulting a woman in her Waikiki apartment in 2007. - A 39-year-old woman was ordered in Ewa District Court yesterday to pay $1,085 in fines and perform 350 hours of community service for leaving her ex-boyfriend's seven dogs weeks without food, water and proper hygienic care in 2008.  - A 57-year-old college professor from New York state died Tuesday from injuries sustained when a car hit him in Kaneohe on Monday evening. - Hawaii is among five states seeing the biggest decline in the well-being of children over the last 10 years, according to the annual Kids Count Data Book produced by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. - An Oahu literacy group is conducting a get-out-the-vote campaign in hopes that Hawaii can once again win a national contest and get thousands of free books for needy children. - The state Department of Education will lay off about 40 employees as part of a push to meet $142 million in budget cuts for the coming school year.  - The Yakama Nation and others have filed suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, seeking to halt shipment of the city's solid waste to a landfill on former tribal land in Washington state. - The state is taking three aging wooden docks at Keehi Lagoon and making them into state-of-the-art piers that float, last longer and will be easier to maintain. - Q: Under the health reform plan, we were told children would be covered by our family insurance plan until the age of 26. My husband recently retired from the county. HMSA told us that they don't have to comply with that until September 2011, not this September. That would mean my daughter, who will be 22, will have no medical coverage for one year, if she goes to school only part time. Can you find out why HMSA doesn't have to comply with the law? - Q: What ever happened to Hawaii Superferry's two vessels that were to provide passenger and freight service among the four main Hawaiian Islands, but left following the company's bankruptcy last year? - Monk seal pup's death investigated •
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Larger bird refuge sought
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