Crime

Two measures at the Honolulu City Council aim to help police take down illegal game rooms. HPD Maj. Mike Lambert has said that about 100 illegal game rooms are operating on Oʻahu at any given moment. HPR's Mark Ladao has more.

Lawmakers have advanced a three-strikes criminal penalty measure. It would elevate the penalty to a Class C felony for people convicted of three offenses for certain misdemeanors within five years. HPR's Ashley Mizuo reports on what legislators think about the bill.

Four Honolulu Police officers are accused of causing or attempting to cover up the 2021 crash in Makaha, which left one person with life changing injuries.

Authorities say an inmate was seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash soon after his escape. Correctional officers found the inmate on a highway outside Kauaʻi Community Correctional Center early Friday.

The arrest took place in late December at Ala Moana Shopping Center, where force was allegedly used. The man the officers arrested had died nearly two weeks later at his home.

We discuss how a clean fuel standard could help Hawaiʻi reduce carbon emissions in transportation; the Honolulu EMS director talks about the recent increase of fentanyl and drug use on Oʻahu; Hawaiian Dredging discusses the Pearl Harbor dry dock modernization project; and a British historian highlights the contributions of Hawaiʻi women during World War II

The Hawaiʻi Department of Taxation said this tax scam is sent via mail and warns taxpayers to be alert for other scams.

A man has pleaded guilty to murder, about two years the decomposing body of his lover was found encased in concrete in a bathtub in one of Hawaiʻi’s most exclusive gated communities.

Authorities say a man accused of dousing a woman with acid on Oʻahu last year allegedly tried to cast doubt on himself as a suspect by plotting with a fellow inmate to carry out a second, similar attack.

The Conversation's Russell Subiono talked with Angelina Mercado, the executive director of the Hawaiʻi State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, about what more can victims and communities do to curb the fatal outcomes of domestic violence.