HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Sewer main work to cause delays
Advertiser Staff
East Honolulu motorists can expect delays this morning because of another possible break in a sewer main under Kalaniana'ole Highway near Niu Valley.
City crews last night closed the right lanes of the highway in each direction near the Niu Valley wastewater pumping station to work on a 16-inch main that may have ruptured. The work was expected to last into today and could affect the morning rush hour.
A city official yesterday noticed the pavement buckling near the spot of the last rupture on Feb. 26. City crews were dispatched, and the lanes were closed after the evening rush hour.
Yesterday's break was the fourth along the same 16-inch sewer line this year. Unlike in the other breaks, the city said, no sewage was believed to have spilled yesterday.
KALIHI
Pedestrian, 73, fatally injured
A 73-year-old Honolulu woman was killed Monday night when she was hit by a pickup truck while crossing a street near Kamehameha Shopping Center in Kalihi.
Police traffic investigators said a 25-year-old Honolulu man stopped his 2004 Chevrolet pickup for a red light at a left-turn lane on Hala Drive at the intersection of Makuahine Street.
The motorist turned left onto Makuahine when the light turned green and he struck the woman as she attempted to cross Makuahine from west to east in a marked crosswalk.
The woman was taken to The Queen's Medical Center in critical condition. She died several hours later, police said.
The driver of the truck was arrested at the scene for outstanding warrants, but not for his actions leading up to the crash, police said.
PALOLO
Boulder traced to private land
A 500-pound boulder that crashed into a Palolo home Monday evening fell from private property, according to a spokeswoman with the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
The boulder rolled down a hill and slammed into a home at 2035 10th Ave. at about 6 p.m. Three men who rent the residence were home but were not injured.
Deborah Ward, DLNR spokeswoman, said the rock did not originate from state property.
John Cummings, O'ahu Civil Defense spokesman, went to the scene yesterday morning and said it appeared that the boulder broke away from a cliff face. He said it didn't appear as though there was a danger of another boulder falling, but he said the landowner should hire an engineer to make that determination.
MANOA
UH student nearly drowns
A University of Hawai'i student was taken to Straub Clinic and Hospital yesterday morning after nearly drowning during a kinesiology class at the Duke Kahanamoku Pool on the lower Manoa campus.
Two female students noticed that a third woman was lying motionless on the pool's floor at about 9:15 a.m. and brought her to the surface. The instructor and other students in the class of approximately 20 men and women administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation until emergency workers arrived.
WINDWARD
Women's prison lo'i blessed
A taro field that will be a training classroom for inmates was blessed yesterday at the Women's Community Correctional Center in Kailua.
The 1-acre dryland lo'i, designed and organized by Winston Kong of Windward Community College, is a collaboration with the college, the Garden Club of Honolulu and the Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle.
WAI'ANAE
Fugitive caught hiding in cabin
A convicted felon on the run from authorities was found yesterday hiding in a mountain cabin about a mile above Farrington Highway in the Wai'anae area, police said.
Robert Gouveia Jr., who was sought in connection with a parole retake warrant, was arrested at 2:20 p.m.
Gouveia has eight felony convictions for kidnapping, armed robbery, sex assault, theft and escape, police said.
BIG ISLAND
2 quakes near Lo'ihi seamount
HILO, Hawai'i — Two earthquakes rumbled off the southeast coast of the Big Island yesterday morning, but there were no reports of damage.
Hawai'i County Civil Defense officials said they did not receive any calls and that the temblors were barely felt in the Puna and Ka'u districts, closest to the offshore quake sites.
The earthquakes occurred within seconds of each other just before 7:30 a.m.
The first occurred nine miles northwest of the Lo'ihi seamount, at a depth of 10.5 miles, and registered at 3.3 magnitude.
The second earthquake was 10 miles northwest of Lo'ihi, at a depth of 11.5 miles. It registered a 4.2 magnitude.
Lo'ihi is about 21 miles southeast of the Big Island.
