22,000 vehicles are registered
HONOLULU (AP) — A new report says more than 22,000 new vehicles were registered in Hawaii during the first half of 2012.
That’s up nearly 20 percent compared with the first six months last year. The report from the Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association shows the three top Japanese automakers still dominate the market. But Jeep registrations were up big — nearly 72 percent.
Dealers say that’s because the automaker has allocated more vehicles to Hawaii than in previous years. Jeep’s share of the Hawaii market is still small — just over 2 percent.
Driver sought
in fatal hit-run
KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) — Police have cleared one lead and are seeking a woman who was driving a sport-utility vehicle they believe was involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Kaneohe.
Police have cleared a man whom witnesses said may have been driving in the area at the time of the crash.
Authorities say Lany Salva, 45, was hit and killed as she was walking to her overnight shift at a gas station on a busy road.
Guilty plea in freeway shooting
HONOLULU (AP) — A 65-year-old man has pleaded guilty under a deal to charges stemming from firing a pistol at another motorist on a Hawaii freeway.
Douglas Freeman pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment and carrying a firearm without a permit.
Freeman agreed with a statement acknowledging he carried a pistol while on his way to camp on the North Shore in February. The statement said Freeman fired when another motorist tried to force him off the H-1 freeway.
The other driver was not harmed.
Honolulu police station protested
HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu’s version of Occupy Wall Street has taken its protest to police headquarters to confront city officials for confiscating tents and other personal items.
The Occupy protesters sat near a metal detector at the building’s main entrance for at least several hours Wednesday night.
Protester Andrew Smith, 28, says they’re upset with city officials for confiscating nine tents plus bedding and personal items.
Smith says city workers tagged the items Tuesday at Occupy’s main protest site near Honolulu. Smith says protesters substituted the items in front of a police supervisor and another city official, but they were confiscated anyway.
Smith says he filed a theft report with police.
