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Question: Please give more information about the automated refuse collection system. You said where to place the bin, but you didn’t say what time.

A 21-year-old man was charged Wednesday after he allegedly exposed himself to two girls inside a restroom at Waikele Elementary School.

A former treasurer of the Makakilo-Kapolei Youth Baseball League admitted in state court Thursday that she stole $13,368 from the organization.

Police captured a large snake in Nuuanu on Thursday after a man opened his front door to see the reptile stretched out on his driveway and peering back at him.

The state epidemiologist says the Big Island dengue outbreak, now poised to eclipse the 2001 Maui outbreak, is just getting started. “We’re at the beginning of a marathon,” Dr. Sarah Park said Thursday. “We’re in the first mile.”

The city’s efforts to address homelessness by routinely cleaning up city sidewalks suffered a setback Thursday when a federal judge ordered officials to stop the immediate disposal of property seized in the sweeps and start videotaping items they destroy.

The Hawaii Community Foundation is adjusting its approach as it marks its centennial next year and welcomes the former head of the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands as its new president and chief operating officer.

A move to block a Native Hawaiian convention was rejected Thursday by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, prompting a pledge to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

As jurors began deliberations Thursday in the trial of a taxi driver accused of sexually assaulting a passenger last year, they were faced with two key questions.

Dale Derrick Rodriguez Jr. was facing a possible life sentence after bludgeoning a man to death with a metal pipe, but a jury Thursday found him guilty of assault instead of murder.