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August 28, 2026 News Read
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July Tourist Headcount Up 1.1%--length of stay drops sharply

$18.5 million in federal funding for 'grid resilience'

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Soft-on-Crime: Convicted Maui Rapist at center of national political storm to Walk Free?

HNN: … The hair and fiber samples used in the original trial are no longer available, and witness memories have faded. Granillo has already spent 36 years in prison.

Partington said he doubts Maui prosecutors will repeat the prosecution.

Granillo awaits the next step in Halawa Correctional Facility….

Between 2019 and 2025, Granillo’s appeals to the Circuit Court and the Intermediate Court failed.

At the Hawaii Supreme Court this year, Maui prosecutors stood by their case.

“Even if you discard the hair and fiber evidence, there was sufficient evidence to convict the defendant in this matter,” said Gerald Enriques, a deputy prosecutor for Maui County.

Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins questioned that position (but he was more interested to use this case to rant about SCOTUS and Trump) ….

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Read … Rape conviction overturned after 36 years due to debunked FBI evidence | Hawaii News Now

“We know” Judiciary is Soft-on-Crime: Man who appealed conviction in fatal stabbing to get new trial

SA: … Trial Judge Kevin Souza will set a new trial date at a Sept. 11 hearing for DeAngelo, who was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for second-degree murder and an additional 20 years for first-degree arson for setting Cox’s rented apartment on fire.

At sentencing, the judge called the crimes horrific and heinous and noted that DeAngelo also threatened the lives and property of others living in the apartment complex at 906 Lehua Ave.

Intermediate Court of Appeals judges Clyde Wadsworth, Sonja McCullen and Kimberly Guidry found the deputy prosecutor used the phrase “we know” “pervasively” in closing and rebuttal statements at trial, even though “prosecutors are afforded wide latitude in closing to discuss the evidence,” as their judgment on appeal says, quoting from State v. Udo….

Read … Man who appealed conviction in fatal stabbing to get new trial | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

HHFDC chief planner dies of meth overdose

ASD: … A hundred autopsies, with a selected few arranged as a series of vignettes. Some died of overdose, others of heart conditions caused by their meth habit.

One of the deceased was Christopher Woodard, the chief planner for the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (HHFDC) making $139,860 a year. He was found on his apartment floor with a glass pipe in his lap.….

2025: Dedicated to the life and times of HHFDC's Chief Planner Chris Woodard

Read … Hawaiʻi meth deaths and the wrong account of human nature

Financial Literacy Is Required For Hawai‘i Grads. Are Schools Ready?

CB: … At Pearl City High School, teacher Tammy Yoon is determined to teach students the basics of personal finance.

How to write a check. How to calculate interest on a car loan. How to run a cost-benefit analysis on whether to attend college. The students even study pay stubs and discuss why take-home pay is less than they might expect.

“What I think they like to do or learn is when they can apply it to themselves,” Yoon said.

More Hawaiʻi teens will learn these lessons as the state education department adds financial literacy as a graduation requirement for the class of 2030, which just started its freshman year.

But the quality of those lessons may vary widely.

Some schools offer financial literacy as a stand-alone elective class, while others will incorporate lessons into existing classes or even assign online courses. The education department has developed program standards, but there are no training requirements for educators teaching these classes….

Read … Financial Literacy Is Required For Hawai‘i Grads. Are Schools Ready? - Honolulu Civil Beat

Commercial aquarium fishing question may be resolved after three years

ASD: … After years of a statewide pause on commercial aquarium fishing, the BLNR could vote to resurrect the industry or kill it permanently on Friday….

Read … Commercial aquarium fishing question may be resolved after three years

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