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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Saturday, August 15, 2009

HAWAII BRIEFS
Man found dead was from Mililani

Advertiser Staff

The man who was found dead Aug. 6 at the city's H-Power plant has been identified as Matthew Carothers, 31, of Mililani.

The city medical examiner has not released the cause or manner of Carothers' death.

On Aug. 6, police received a call about 7:30 p.m. that a body was on the grounds of the trash-burning, electricity-generating plant at Campbell Industrial Park. Police initially said there were no signs of foul play and classified the case as an unattended death.

BIG ISLAND ONE-CAR CRASH VICTIM DIES

A 58-year-old Pahoa man died on Thursday of injuries suffered in a one-car crash in Puna on Aug. 5.

Hawai'i County police said the man died at The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu.

The man was a passenger in a car driven by a 39-year-old Kea'au woman.

Police said the car, a 1999 Saturn sedan, left the road and crashed into bushes.

The man and woman were taken to Hilo Medical Center, where the woman was treated and released. The man was later transferred to Queen's.

TALENTED WAIAKEA STUDENT HONORED

Waiakea High School senior Nolan Kamitaki has been named one of 19 recipients of a Davidson Institute for Talent Development fellowship.

Kamitaki, 17, will receive a $25,000 scholarship from the institute, a nonprofit organization based in Reno, Nev., that supports gifted youth. Melody Lindsay, a 17-year-old Kahala resident who was featured in an Advertiser story Monday, received a $50,000 scholarship award.

Kamitaki was honored for his design of a computer simulation, "Programming a Network Approach to Contain the Spread of Epidemic," which was based on an idea that a mathematical model and computer simulation could predict the response to a viral outbreak.

The Hilo resident is captain of Waiakea's math league team and member of the science bowl team. He also was a member of the Hawai'i state bowl team.