Police yesterday charged an 81-year-old Makakilo man with three counts of first-degree sexual assault and six counts of third-degree sexual assault. He is accused of assaulting two neighborhood children, ages 10 and 9.

Francis M. Burke is also charged with fourth-degree sexual assault. He is being held in lieu of $100,000 bail.

Charges filed after Tuesday standoff

A 44-year-old McCully man was charged Wednesday with threatening four police officers with a samurai sword Tuesday morning at 1753 Nanea St.

Bail for the misdemeanor threatening charges against Kurt Loar totalled $8,000. Loar was arrested after a two-hour standoff with police.

Crash victims remain critical

A 1-year-old girl and 29-year-old man, injured in separate auto crashes this week in La'ie and Ka'a'awa, respectively, remained in critical condition today at The Queen's Medical Center.

The girl was in a Mazda MPV that veered off the Kamehameha Highway shortly before noon Sunday near Lanihuli Place and landed on its side. The crash killed her 2-month-old brother, who was ejected from the vehicle, which was being driven by her father, 29. The man and his wife, 30, and two other children, ages 6 and 5, are recovering from injuries.

The man involved in the Ka'a'awa crash at 9:11 p.m. Wednesday was driving a sports utility vehicle which struck a utility pole after exiting the Swanzy Beach Park, police said.

Man accused of threatening pair

Police yesterday charged 55-year-old Robert Prattella, who has no permanent local address, with threatening a 22-year-old woman and man, 23, with a hatchet in the parking lot of a Ke'eaumoku Street restaurant.

He is being held on $30,000 bail.

Plea deal made in Big Island slayings

HILO, Hawai'i ­ One of two men charged in a double slaying on the Big Island has pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder.

Kyle Hill said Wednesday in Circuit Court that he and co-defendant John McGovern fatally shot Wesley Matheson and Cassidy Toole in Puna on May 6.

Hill, 19, and McGovern, 20, had pleaded innocent to a charge of first-degree murder, which carries a mandatory term of life in prison with no possibility of parole. Second-degree murder is punishable by life imprisonment with the possibility of parole.

Under a plea agreement with prosecutors, Hill agreed to testify against McGovern, who was set to stand trial May 19.