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Help sought finding missing teen girl
The state Department of Human Services is asking for the public's help in finding a 17-year-old girl who has been missing for more than two weeks and is described as a runaway. Dianna "Kuulei" Gonzalez is about 5 feet 6 and 125 pounds with brownish-black hair and tanned skin. Gonzalez, who is enrolled in Campbell High School, has been known to frequent the Wahiawa and North Shore areas, officials said. Gonzalez was last seen June 4. Call 832-5300.
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33 charges against group dropped
WAILUKU, Maui — Maui Circuit Court Judge Joseph Cardoza has dismissed 33 of 91 criminal counts against the Pacific Whale Foundation alleging the organization's boats improperly approaching endangered humpback whales.
Foundation attorney Philip Lowenthal said the charges were dismissed Thursday because those counts involved alleged acts outside the state's 3-mile jurisdiction zone. A trial on the remaining charges is set for September.
The state says the boats illegally approached whales in January and February 1998 when the foundation did not have a valid research permit.
