NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
Think twice, Grandma, before you become the nanny
Saying no to babysitting your grandchildren might be one of the most distressing and complicated refusals in human relationships. But it’s something more retirees should do instead of serving as primary child-care givers while parents are at work.
Man accused of assaulting officers freed by judge
A 37-year-old Waimea man accused of assaulting three police officers Monday evening is free on court-supervised release without monetary bail.
Pahoa man faces numerous drug, gun charges
A judge on Friday increased bail on a 34-year-old Pahoa man described by county Prosecutor Kelden Waltjen as a “repeat offender with six prior felony convictions.”
Police seek Ocean View theft suspect
Police are seeking the public’s assistance to identify a man sought for questioning in connection with a stolen moped and other property crimes in Ocean View.
Cool customers: Anderson-Moxley, Schad repeat at Hilo Climbing Time Trial
Rainy conditions did not stop Waikoloa’s Sam Anderson-Moxley and Papaaloa’s Melissa Schad from repeating as overall male and female champions at Saturday’s Hilo Climbing Time Trial.
Schools found to have high levels of lead in tap water
Thirteen public schools on the Big Island were found to have elevated levels of lead in their tap water, state agencies announced Thursday.
Court to hear arguments over use of police during TMT protests
The Hawaii Supreme Court will hear arguments next month over whether the county overstepped its bounds by requesting neighbor islands’ police forces to assist in responding to the 2019 Thirty Meter Telescope protest.
State COVID-19 cases spike
The state Department of Health on Thursday reported 243 confirmed and probable new cases of COVID-19 across Hawaii — the biggest single-day case count since January and the eighth straight day totals have reached triple digits.
Council Planning Committee delays subdivision vote
Owners of a 4-acre North Kona parcel will have to wait a little longer before they’ll know whether the County Council will give them permission to rezone it from agriculture to urban and subdivide it into six residential lots.
Vaccinations rise in some states with soaring infections
Vaccinations are beginning to rise in some states where COVID-19 cases are soaring, White House officials said Thursday in a sign that the summer surge is getting the attention of vaccine-hesitant Americans as hospitals in the South are being overrun with patients.
Western wildfires grow, but better weather helps crews
BLY, Ore. — Lower winds and better weather helped crews using bulldozers and helicopters battling the nation’s largest wildfire in southern Oregon, but gusty winds pushed a Northern California wildfire into Nevada on Thursday, prompting evacuations as blazes burn across the West.
Obituaries for July 23
Lawrence Clayton Bramel, 45, of Kailua-Kona died July 16 at home. Born in Anchorage, Alaska, he was an electrician for Sunrun Inc. Services at a later date. Survived by companion, Monica Price of Kailua-Kona; son, Donavon Bramel of Holualoa. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.
Kaseya gets master decryption key after July 4 global attack
BOSTON — The Florida company whose software was exploited in the devastating Fourth of July weekend ransomware attack, Kaseya, has received a universal key that will decrypt all of the more than 1,000 businesses and public organizations crippled in the global incident.
Norway mourns 77 slain a decade ago in extremist attack
OSLO, Norway — Church bells rang out across Norway on Thursday to mark the 10th anniversary of the country’s worst peacetime slaughter as leaders called for renewed efforts to fight the extremism behind the attack that left 77 people dead.
Pelosi says ‘deadly serious’ Jan. 6 probe to go without GOP
WASHINGTON — Unfazed by Republican threats of a boycott, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared Thursday that a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection will take on its “deadly serious” work whether Republicans participate or not.
Violence, protests overshadow Mass for slain Haitian leader
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti — Demonstrations in Cap-Haitien turned violent on Thursday as gunshots rang out while supporters of slain President Jovenel Moïse blocked roads and demanded justice while threatening to disrupt his upcoming funeral.
The US and China need to keep investing in their relationship
The web of commercial ties spun between the world’s two largest economies over the past two decades is fraying. Early in the U.S. Democratic primary, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris came across as two of the least confrontational candidates on China issues. Their administration, however, is offering not so much a break with Trump-era trade tensions, as continuity and escalation.
US churches reckon with traumatic legacy of Native schools
The discoveries of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools for Indigenous children in Canada have prompted renewed calls for a reckoning over the traumatic legacy of similar schools in the United States — and in particular by the churches that operated many of them.
Hey Biden, Trump could be your best vaccine friend
Here’s a simple step — but not an easy one! — that President Joe Biden could take to fight vaccine hesitancy as it spreads across the U.S.: Enlist the support of former President Donald Trump.
For UHH men’s basketball coach Aiona, youth minicamp is a start
This doesn’t figure to be as much a blast from the past for Kaniela Aiona, but more so a tiny glimpse, he hopes, of things to come.
Big Island Pop Warner gearing up for return
For any parents or keiki who might think it’s too late to start playing youth football, Big Island Pop Warner president Chad Tolentino has a message.
Mask rule delays trial for ex-Hawaii prosecutor’s brother
HONOLULU (AP) — A former high-ranking city prosecutor once took a photo with a line of cocaine on the desk of her husband, then-Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha, according to court documents filed in preparation of a drug-dealing trial against her pain physician brother.
Council supports resolution to protect spinner dolphins
The Hawaii County Council is urging the federal government to implement rules to prohibit close contact between humans and Hawaiian spinner dolphins.
In-person DLIR appointments to begin Sept. 7
Some 15,000 Hawaii residents could lose unemployment benefits when federal unemployment programs end Sept. 6.
