A 42-year-old woman was attacked by an unknown assailant as she walked her dog on Ho'omaka Street in 'Ewa Beach yesterday afternoon.

The woman suffered head wounds and was able to make it back to her home, where her husband found her collapsed in the garage.

City emergency medical technicians got a call from 91-1037 Ho'omaka St. at 3:26 p.m., said Bryan Cheplic, spokesman for the Honolulu Emergency Services Department.

The woman was taken to The Queen's Medical Center in serious condition, he said.

STOLEN CREDIT CARD USE LEADS TO ARREST

A 55-year-old man was charged yesterday with trying to use a stolen credit card to buy items at Ala Moana Center.

James Radack was charged with fraudulent use of a credit card, unauthorized possession of confidential personal information, second-degree identity theft and second-degree forgery. Bail was set at $20,000.

Radack was arrested Sunday at 9 a.m. A clerk who became suspicious of the transaction notified police. The card actually belongs to a 53-year-old man.

SILENT MARCH FOR STABBED SON TODAY

The Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence will hold a silent march today for Tyran Vesperas-Saniatan, the 14-year-old Big Island youth fatally stabbed June 11 in Pahoa while trying to protect his pregnant mother.

Tyran's father, Tyrone Vesperas, 38, has been charged with murder in the death of his son. He is also accused of stabbing his pregnant wife in the abdomen, causing her to lose her unborn child.

The march on Beretania Street is scheduled from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Marchers are asked to meet at the Father Damien statue at the state Capitol.

Rep. John Mizuno, D-30th (Kamehameha Heights, Kalihi Valley, Fort Shafter), is co-sponsoring the march.

WOMAN PULLED FROM POOL DIES

An 89-year-old woman died yesterday after she was pulled from a residential pool in Mililani.

Paramedics responded to a home on Hakalau'ai Place after the woman was pulled out of the pool just before 1:30 p.m.

She was taken to Wahiawa General Hospital in critical condition and later pronounced dead, said Bryan Cheplic, spokesman for the Honolulu Emergency Services Department.

YOUTHS TO BE SEA SCIENTISTS AT HPU

Hawai'i Pacific University will conduct a youth summer program starting next week that focuses on oceanography and geology.

The Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth will integrate ocean field work through two courses introduced in 2006. The courses include "Oceanography: The Hawaiian Pacific" and "The Life Cycle of An Island: Hawai'i," according to a news release.

About 200 students, ages 12-16, were invited to take part. The program invites students who score at or above the 95th percentile on standardized tests.

The first of two three-week summer sessions at HPU's Windward Hawai'i Loa Campus is scheduled to begin Sunday and end July 13. The second session takes lace July 15 to Aug. 3.

Students will collect data in Kane'ohe Bay on the research vessel Kaholo. They will also work at the Oceanic Institute laboratories, analyzing satellite data and field samples.

The oceanography class offers opportunities to investigate the biochemical cycles affecting seawater as well as ocean-atmosphere interactions.

Students enrolled in the life cycle class will take field trips to study the geologic formation of the island chain.