A 37-year-old former federal credit union employee admitted in U.S. District Court Tuesday that he stole tens of thousands of dollars from member accounts, forging member signatures to do so. Read more
Two survivors of a deadly Kakaako crash that killed three say the police officer who was pursuing the driver of a speeding pickup truck that plowed into a group of pedestrians contributed to the tragedy by not using his flashing lights or siren. Read more
One day after a state judge dismissed a petition to impeach Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Keith Kaneshiro, his predecessor Peter Carlisle wants the court to declare him eligible to run for Kaneshiro’s office in the 2020 election. Read more
A federal judge wants to know how a man in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody was able to get a bottle of alcohol before boarding a Hawaiian Airlines flight back to his native South Korea. Read more
UPDATE: A U.S. District Court judge dismissed all charges against Emmy Baofang Chen on April 22, 2020. Read more
Mark Char set the tone for his sentencing hearing in state court for attempted murder and assault Monday when he entered the courtroom in blackface. Read more
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A preschool teacher at the Kroc Keiki Learning Center was fired last year for lifting up and yelling into the ears of children in her class, according to a lawsuit filed by the parents of one of the students. Read more
A 20-year-old man who disseminated on the internet nude photos of a woman who rebuffed his extortion attempts was sentenced in state court Thursday to four years of probation. Read more
Barriers were blocking the entrance to the emergency runaway truck ramp on Likelike Highway when an out-of-control tow truck crashed into 10 vehicles and injured four motorists June 12, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in state court. Read more
Thursday’s verdict is not the end of the legal troubles for Louis and Katherine Kealoha. The couple faces two more trials. Read more
The ousted director of the now-defunct Halau Lokahi Public Charter School has again been charged with one of four felony theft counts that had been dismissedbecause the state Attorney General took too long to take the case to trial. Read more
A friend who witnessed a 23-year-old woman stab her husband in the couple’s Makakilo apartment early Sunday morning says the woman was the aggressor, Deputy Prosecutor Leigh Okimoto told a state judge Thursday. Read more
A 33-year-old Honolulu man who advertised himself as a photographer pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court to using the internet to try to have sex last year with a 15-year-old girl. Read more
Hawaii Congressman Ed Case on Sunday announced his intention to run for reelection. Read more
A second former Schofield Barracks range operations manager accused of accepting bribes in exchange for millions of dollars’ worth of government contracts is expected to plead guilty in U.S. District Court. Read more
A state judge has permanently dismissed felony theft charges against the ousted director of the now-defunct Halau Lokahi Public Charter School because the state took too long to take the case to trial. Read more
The probation sentence a state judge handed a motorist who killed a moped rider in a hit-and-run drunken driving crash “is an abysmal message to send to the driving public,” said Carol McNamee, founder of the Hawaii chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Read more
A Hilo doctor at the center of a federal prosecution accusing his office workers of illegally obtaining and selling powerful prescription painkillers has dementia and had been treating himself for the disease since 2014, according to the report of a court-appointed psychiatrist. Read more
A motorist who killed a moped rider in a drunken driving hit-and-run collision near Ala Moana Center began serving a one-year jail term Monday for negligent homicide and fleeing the scene of a traffic collision. Read more
The state murder trial of a man accused of killing Jack in the Box restaurant manager Helen Prestosa ended abruptly when the defendant accepted a plea offer from the state before the case went to the jury. Read more
The prosecutor in the state murder trial of a man accused of killing Jack in the Box restaurant manager Helen Prestosa asked the judge to suspend the proceedings Thursday until he can determine whether his key witness is able to continue to testify. Read more
