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Missing woman turns up 'fine'

Police today found 24-year-old Raynalyn Longa, who had been reported missing Sunday.

"She's fine," said Officer Phil Camero of the Honolulu Police Department's Missing Persons Detail. He declined comment on where the woman was found at 5:15 a.m. today. Longa had been last seen Saturday at a Kapi'olani-area nightclub where she worked.

Man injured in motorbike crash

A 21-year-old man was critically injured at 2:25 p.m. yesterday when he was thrown from his 2001 Suzuki motorcycle while trying to avoid a collision with a car at an intersection in Makiki.

The motorcyclist was taken to The Queen's Medical Center. The hospital today refused to release further information on the injured man.

The accident occurred at Wilder Avenue and Kewalo Street. The motorcyclist was not wearing a safety helmet, police said. No other injuries were reported.

Women arrested in two stabbings

Police arrested two women on suspicion of attempted murder in separate stabbing cases yesterday.

A 38-year-old woman was arrested at 5:50 a.m. in the "Weed and Seed" Chinatown district after a man, 43, was stabbed in the back in a dispute over a glass drug-smoking pipe. The man is in stable condition at The Queen's Medical Center, police said.

A 21-year-old woman was arrested after her former boyfriend was stabbed in the arm, severing an artery, at 11:30 a.m., police said. The man is hospitalized at Castle Medical Center. The man was stabbed during an argument at his Kihapai Place residence, police said.