HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Soil tests prompt closure of Ward
Advertiser Staff
Both makai-bound lanes of Ward Avenue between Kina'u and Beretania streets will be closed from 9 p.m. today to 5 a.m. tomorrow to allow workers to try to determine what caused a sinkhole there last week.
Makai-bound traffic might be contraflowed on a mauka-bound lane of Ward Avenue or detoured to Victoria Street, depending on traffic, said officials of the city Department of Environmental Services.
The lane closures will allow a contractor to take core samples of the soil under Ward Avenue in the vicinity of a sewer main, where an underground cavity may have formed.
RESIDENT REPORTS BEING SHOT AT
Police opened an attempted-murder case after a 30-year-old man reported being shot at by one of two men who tried to force their way into his University-area apartment Sunday morning.
The victim told police two strangers knocked on his door about 12:30 a.m. and asked to speak to someone whose name he did not recognize. The two men threatened to kill the residents and one of them fired a handgun at them.
PUNCHBOWL
HOME INVASION INVESTIGATED
Police are looking for two men who broke into a Punchbowl-area apartment early Friday and tied up and robbed the two occupants.
A 56-year-old man who lives in the apartment told police the two men entered about 2 a.m. and that one of them pointed a gun at him while the other awakened a woman, 54, and demanded to know where the safe was.
Police said there is no safe in the apartment and that it appeared the robbers may have gone to the wrong apartment. The two intruders tied up the couple, searched the apartment for about 15 minutes and took a number of items.
MANOA
UH'S FIRST FEMALE VP TO RETIRE
Doris Ching, the first woman vice president of the University of Hawai'i, will retire at the end of the year after more than 36 years of service.
Ching, vice president of student affairs, is credited with expanding student services through her initiatives for campus childcare, the Women's Center, new student orientation, systemwide student caucus and the Regents and Presidential Scholars program.
She was also instrumental in the building of the Queen Li-li'uokalani Center for Student Services.
PEARL RIDGE
IDENTITY THEFT ON MEETING AGENDA
Police Detective Miles Jung and Sgt. Jensen Okagawa will make an informational presentation titled "Identity Theft: Are You Protected?" at tonight's Pearl City/'Aiea Town Meeting at Pearl Ridge Elementary School cafeteria. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. and is open to the public.
Call state Sen. David Ige's office at 586-6230 for more information.
