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Kahala Elementary School teacher Ruth Johnson, who has taught here since 1970, said Hawaii's teachers are the worst paid in the nation.
they carried signs with slogans such as "Teachers Unite," "Avoid a Strike," "Help Teachers Settle Now," and "We are loveable, unique and poor."
teachers marched around the block and past the governor's mansion before gathering on the Capitol steps yesterday.
Randy Obata, Gov. Ben Cayetano's communications director, said their chants and cheers could be heard faintly inside Cayetano's fifth-floor office, but he was not in at the time.
She described feeling isolated and helpless as a child molested in two state-approved foster care homes.
She said yesterday that state welfare officials made infrequent visits to the foster homes, and Medeiros felt as if officials had forgotten her and she had no way of communicating with them.
Yesterday, the state agreed to a settlement of $337,500 each for Medeiros and her 16-year-old brother - at $675,000 one of the biggest settlements against the state foster care system.
Medeiros hopes to use the settlement money to attend Maui Community College to become a registered nurse to assist children in foster care so that what happened to her and her brother won't happen to other kids.
The Legislature may take away one of their tools: radar detectors.
The Senate Transportation Committee yesterday passed the bill, which would prohibit the possession, use or sale of radar detectors in the state.
The committee also moved:
A bill that would prohibit the posting of signs on utility poles.
A bill that would appropriate funds to study an intraisland ferry transit system on Oahu.
The pair fled with an undetermined amount of cash after entering the California Avenue store just after 11 p.m. armed with a black pistol.
One suspect is described as in his early 30s, about 5-foot-7 and 150 pounds. He has a mustache and was seen in a red king-cab pickup truck after one robbery.
He is wanted for the holdups of Central Pacific Bank branches at Royal Kunia, Waipahu and Mililani; the Bank of Honolulu's Westridge branch in Aiea, and Bank of Hawaii and First Hawaiian bank branches in Mililani.
The robberies occurred between Oct. 10 of last year and Jan. 10 this year.
The second suspect displayed a black plastic box outfitted with an antenna and light to look like a bomb in pulling off robberies last September, October and November at Bank of Hawaii's Kihei branch on Maui, American Savings Bank in Salt Lake and Bank of Hawaii's Star Market outlet, respectively.
He is heavy-set with a pot belly, about 5-foot-8 and 225 pounds.
He wears black-framed prescription glasses.
The FBI is also looking for Richard Jarvis, 39, who is believed to have fled to the mainland after robbing the Discovery Bay branch of Bank of Hawaii last July.
Anyone with information is asked to call 955-8300.