Crime

The Honolulu Police Department said Clarence Luke was arrested on Wednesday morning in connection with the death of his friend, 55-year-old Jonnaven Monalim.

UFC Hall of Famer BJ Penn was arrested and charged with third-degree assault this week. Penn is scheduled to make an initial court appearance on Dec. 2 in Hilo District Court. This is Penn's sixth arrest of the year.

This recent recovery was the operation’s fifth mission since it began in 2020, and it has recovered more than 40 young people in the past five years.

Filmmaker Kimberlee Bassford spoke with HPR’s Maddie Bender about her film titled "Before The Moon Falls."

Chu Lan Shubert-Kwock of the Chinatown Business & Community Association spoke to The Conversation's Catherine Cruz about improving the Chinatown district.

Instead of having a law in place, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation only has an agency policy that advocates say is complicated and lengthy.

The National Human Trafficking Hotline has a new management team after 18 years of being operated by Polaris Project, and a local advocacy and resource group plans to work to ensure the new organization continues the victim-centered approach.

Ryan Routh has been found guilty of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at a Florida golf course last year. After the verdict on Tuesday, Routh tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen but was quickly restrained by officers. The jury took about two hours to reach their decision.

Starting in 2024, the program allowed for the state-initiated “expungement” of some marijuana-related offenses on Hawaiʻi Island, and this year state lawmakers expanded that to include excessive purchases of drugs with the lowest risk of dependency.

Former Gov. Linda Lingle shares the story behind The Women's Prison Project.