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Veteran big-wave surfer Alec “Ace Cool” Cooke is notorious for fearlessly — some would say recklessly — surfing the North Shore at night in recent years. “He’s a wild man,” said “Banzai” Betty Depolito, a former pro surfer and friend going back to the 1980s.

With the help of a pair of crutches, 10-year-old Raymond “Ray Ray” Senensi III was back on his feet Thursday after a 5- to 6-foot gray and white shark latched onto his leg the day before and dragged him under the choppy waves at his favorite bodyboarding spot, Makaha Beach Park.

Student, 11, reports kidnapping attempt • Firefighters control Nanakuli house fire • Date change for beach meeting • Gala to benefit surfer nonprofit

Question: It’s great that DLNR is reclaiming beaches for the public. Who do we call to report encroachment? A: The Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands.

Question: Whatever happened to the investigation of the Thompson Academy charter school’s principal and her sister who was employed as vice principal while working full time as a flight attendant?

A 1999 Maryknoll School graduate and real estate agent was shot to death in an apparent random shooting Saturday outside a nightclub in San Jose, Calif.

A state circuit judge Wednesday set aside a jury award of about $27 million to Ewa Beach homeowners who sued Haseko over the decision to develop a recreational lagoon instead of a marina in the area.

Former Honolulu police officer Nelson Tamayori and former reserve officer Joseph Becera will not have to spend any time behind bars for failing to report two assaults committed by a fellow officer in an illegal game room last year.

Veteran Molokai activist Walter Ritte Jr. formally renounced his candidacy to the Native Hawaiian convention Wednesday and called for the boycott of a self-governance process he described as rigged.

A deadly early winter swell began to decline Wednesday, but big waves closed Baldwin Beach Park on Maui’s north shore, six beach parks on Hawaii island, and a section of Kalanianaole Avenue between Kioea and Koloa streets fronting Hilo Bay.