Hilo chiropractor Dr. Rex Weigel is a source of inspiration and amazement to many.

All four former employees of a Hilo physician raided by authorities in October 2018 for over-prescription and illegal distribution of opioid painkillers and other narcotics have been sentenced on drug trafficking charges.

CORRECTIONS: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated Sue Lee Loy is a freshman councilwoman. She is nearing the end of her second term on the County Council. Also Jeffrey Hawk is a District Court Judge, not a per diem judge, as was gleaned from an incorrect press release from Gov. David Ige’s office on candidates for a circuit court appointment. The Tribune-Herald regrets the errors.

CORRECTION: In a previous version of this story, the rank of police Capt. Greg Esteban was erroneously reported. The Tribune-Herald regrets the error.

Police seized well over a pound of methamphetamine plus other drugs during a raid Monday on 17th Avenue in Hawaiian Paradise Park.

The father and brother of a Hilo woman originally from Oregon who went missing Sunday near Wainaku Scenic Point have come to the Big Island to help in the search.

The mother of UFC Hall of Famer BJ Penn said Thursday the mixed martial artist is recovering at home from a concussion sustained in a traffic accident the evening of Feb. 7 on Kanoelehua Avenue near Prince Kuhio Plaza in Hilo.

The pedestrian killed during rush-hour traffic Thursday morning on Highway 130 near the Keaau Transfer Station was struck by at least three vehicles, police said.

A midday Monday incident in Hawaiian Paradise Park involving police, a low-flying county helicopter and numerous sounds that neighbors construed as gunfire have some nearby residents in shock and wondering why police didn’t notify them about what had occurred.

A pair of bills introduced this legislative session by state senators from Oahu seeks harsher penalties for parents, spectators and athletes who assault or terrorize sports officials such as referees, umpires and coaches.

A bill that would lower the blood-alcohol content for drivers to be considered legally intoxicated was passed unanimously Wednesday by the state Senate Transportation Committee.

It was an extremely wet January for much of Hawaii Island, with numerous gauges recording record rainfall for the first month of year, especially in East Hawaii.

MOUNTAIN VIEW — A house burned down Wednesday on the 11-2900 block of Pikake Street in Fern Acres subdivision — the same block and just a few lots away from the scene of a fire that destroyed another dwelling the previous day.

A Hilo grand jury has indicted two Hilo men in unrelated sex assault cases, one involving a newly minted attorney recently hired as a deputy public defender.