Chronically homeless to
get apartments ADVERTISING Chronically homeless to
get apartments HONOLULU (AP) — The state is part of an effort to get 30 chronically homeless people off the streets and moved in to Oahu apartments by June. The state is working
Chronically homeless to
get apartments
HONOLULU (AP) — The state is part of an effort to get 30 chronically homeless people off the streets and moved in to Oahu apartments by June.
The state is working with Honolulu officials and social service agencies to get homeless residents into two apartment complexes in Honolulu under the state’s Housing First program. The homeless residents also will get moved in to market-rate rental units around Oahu, where they will have access to social services for help with drug and alcohol problems and mental illness.
The efforts will continue through May, when the last of 30 chronically homeless people are expected to be placed into housing.
Woman guilty
of bribing agents
HONOLULU (AP) — A jury found a woman guilty of bribing federal agents in exchange for protecting her massage parlor from prostitution raids and help with the U.S. citizenship test.
Biyu Situ was found guilty Monday of two counts of bribery.
She was arrested after U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigators said she offered money for raid protection, citizenship help and recruitment of prostitutes.
According to court documents she made the offer after two Chinese women at her massage parlor were arrested for prostitution.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Larry Butrick said jurors heard recordings of Situ saying she wanted the same arrangement her friend had with police.
She faces deportation to China and up to five years in prison when she’s sentenced in July.
NOAA’s biggest ship returns home
(AP) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s largest oceanographic research vessel returned to its homeport in South Carolina after the longest deployment of any ship in the administration’s history.
NOAA Ship Robert H. Brown spent almost 800 days at sea during the 3 1/2-year deployment. NOAA says the ship traveled almost 130,000 miles conducting scientific research and servicing buoys that collect environmental data.
The agency says the ship’s tasks included taking more than 1,600 measurements in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, ranging from Iceland and Alaska to Antarctica.
The Robert H. Brown also surveyed more than 350,000 square miles of seafloor and conducted ecological assessments of fisheries off Alaska’s Arctic coast.
The ship’s homeport is Charleston, S.C.
