Police seek driver in critical hit-and-run in Ocean View

Police are searching for the driver involved in a hit-and-run traffic collision in Ka‘ū that left a 26-year-old woman pedestrian with life-threatening injuries. The single-vehicle collision occurred late Saturday evening near the intersection of Paradise Parkway and Luau Drive in Ocean View.

Woman sought in custodial interference case

Police are seeking the public’s assistance with locating 35-year old Shereenmarie Dalao Godoy of Mountain View, who is wanted for questioning in a second-degree custodial interference investigation.

Obituaries for September 24

Marian Yuriko Kihara, 85, of Pahoa died Aug. 22 at Hilo Medical Center. Born in Kealakekua, she was a retired secretary of the former RAK Repair in Hilo, a cook at the former Mall Foods Snack Bar in Hilo and member of Honomu Henjoji Mission (Odaishisan). Private services held. No flowers or koden (monetary gifts). Online condolences: dodomortuary.com. Survived by husband, Richard A. Kihara of Pahoa; sons, Gary (Debbie Connally) Kihara of Volcano and Clyde (Mari) Kihara of Pahoa; daughter, Cynthia (Cory) Shinshiro of Pahoa; brothers, Walter (Ruby) Hiraishi of Kailua, Oahu, and Jack (Gail) Hiraishi of Honolulu; seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren; nephews, nieces, and cousins. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.

Leina‘ala Drummond, Hawaiian Air logo model, dies at 77

Leina‘ala Ann Teruya Drummond was Miss Hawaii 1964, the first neighbor island contestant to win the coveted pageant crown. The Maui native also danced hula in Danny Kaleikini’s show at the Kahala Hilton in the late 1960s and was a Maui County Council member in the early 1990s.