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Probate Judge Derrick Chan on Thursday rejected Janeen-Ann Olds’ petition to be reappointed to a second term as a Kamehameha Schools trustee amid growing opposition from fellow trustees and prominent Kamehameha alumni to the telecom executive’s continued tenure.

After spending the day picking up tons of discarded debris, a cleanup crew will return today for what the city hopes will be the last of the Kakaako homeless encampment. Thursday’s and today’s efforts were aimed at the final and densest portion.

Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying suspects or witnesses in connection with the fatal assault of a 59-year-old man Sunday in Mililani Mauka.

Fatal plunge onto H-1 slows traffic • Skeletal remains found near lookout • Thieves target purses in carts on Big Island • Molokai waste pickups resume today or Friday

Question: Could you please find out why it’s taking so long to fix my landline? I haven’t had telephone service since Aug. 25 and no Internet service for a couple weeks. • How can Hawaiian Tel justify my phone being out for so long just from some rain?

State agricultural pest officials are refocusing efforts to eradicate a beetle that has touched off the deaths of more than 100 coconut and palm trees on Oahu, shifting traps to an area stretching to Nanakuli from Iroquois Point.

A 30-year-old Makiki man charged with threatening the mother of his daughter on his Facebook page is scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 19 in Circuit Court. Curtis Hughes was charged Sunday with two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

Discussion on a bill extending the 0.5 percent excise tax surcharge for rail on Oahu through the end of 2027 will be heard by a Honolulu City Council committee in the coming weeks, Council Chairman Ernie Martin said Wednesday.

A popular Waialua bakery known for its “snow puffies” pastries has closed after the state Health Department temporarily suspended its food safety permit due to improper temperature controls.

An independent court master is recommending that Probate Judge Derrick Chan not reappoint Janeen-Ann Olds to a second term as a Kamehameha Schools trustee because she’s lost the support of her fellow trustees in the wake of scandals involving telecommunications company Sandwich Isles Communications and its parent company, Waimana Enterprises.