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Kihei man dies in moped accident

A 20-year-old Kihei, Maui, man identified as Daniel T. Terwin was killed Sunday when his moped was struck by a van near the Wailea Renaissance Resort.

Terwin, who was not wearing a helmet, was going south on Wailea Alanui Drive at 3:46 p.m. when the van pulled out of the resort drive and hit him.

The driver was identified as Jeong Hee Kang, 48, a tourist from Illinois.

Car fire destroys 20 acres of cane

A vehicle set ablaze in a Ma'alaea, Maui, cane field destroyed about 20 acres of sugarcane yesterday before firefighters and the sugar company extinguished it.

A Kahului engine company responded first to the 1:13 a.m. alarm. The blaze was under control at 3 a.m.

Hawaii Commercial & Sugar Co., which owns the field, used its own tankers and rakes to help extinguish the fire.

The car was identified as a yellow Ford Mustang.

Losses of the sugar crop were estimated at $120,000.

Man charged with attempted robbery

A 25-year-old Kona man has been charged with attempted robbery after an aborted attempt to hold up the Kona branch of First Hawaiian Bank on Saturday.

Police said Sheridan Kuhl entered the branch at the Lanihau Shopping Center shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday, brandishing a dagger.

According to police reports, he jumped onto the customer counter and demanded money but ran without taking anything.

Police were called, and he was arrested shortly after he fled.

Kuhl was charged with first-degree attempted robbery and is being held in police cellblock in lieu of $70,000 bail.

Swimmer rescued off Maui coast

Maui fire and Coast Guard workers Sunday rescued a man who had been swimming about a mile off the coast.

Lahaina firefighters answered a distress call just after 4:30 p.m., dispatching a ladder company to the Ukumehame area, about 14 miles south of Lahaina. A fire department helicopter and a Coast Guard vessel assisted in rescuing the tourist, whose age and name were not released. He was treated at the scene.