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This photo provided by Kawena Alo-Kaonohi shows a view looking down into Kahakuloa village in Wailuku, Hawaii, Jan. 18, 2020. Two Native Hawaiian men are scheduled to be sentenced Thursday, March 2, 2023, for a federal hate crime in the 2014 brutal beating of a white man who tried to move into their remote, traditional fishing village. (Courtesy of Kawena Alo-Kaonohi via AP)

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A hate crime lays bare Hawaii’s complicated race relations
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press
Thu,03/02/23-12:07AM , 403 Reads
HONOLULU (AP) — Two Native Hawaiian men wouldn't have brutally beaten a man if he weren't white, a U.S. judge said Thursday in sentencing them to yearslong prison terms for a hate crime in a case that reflects Hawaii's nuanced and complicated relationship with race.
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Albert "Ian" Schweitzer, left, hugs his mother, Linda, moments after a judge ordered him released from prison, in Hilo, Hawaii, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. The judge's ruling came immediately after Schweitzer's attorneys presented new evidence and argued that Schweitzer didn’t commit the crimes he was convicted of and spent more than 20 years locked up for: the 1991 murder, kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman visiting Hawaii. (Marco Garcia/The Innocence Project via AP Images)

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Freed after 20 years, Hawaii man reflects on case, future
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press
Wed,01/25/23-6:47PM , 410 Reads
HONOLULU (AP) — On Ian Schweitzer's first morning of freedom Wednesday, he woke up in a hotel room, looked over the balcony at the ocean and took in the beauty of the island he had been away from for over 20 years while imprisoned for a 1991 killing and rape he has always maintained he didn't commit.
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Albert "Ian" Schweitzer, left, hugs his mother, Linda, moments after a judge ordered him released from prison, in Hilo, Hawaii, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. The judge's ruling came immediately after Schweitzer's attorneys presented new evidence and argued that Schweitzer didn’t commit the crimes he was convicted of and spent more than 20 years locked up for: the 1991 murder, kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman visiting Hawaii. (Marco Garcia/The Innocence Project via AP Images)

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Hawaii man imprisoned for 1991 murder, rape released
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press
Mon,01/23/23-11:06PM , 625 Reads
HONOLULU (AP) — A judge on Tuesday ordered a man released from prison immediately after his attorneys presented new evidence and argued that he didn’t commit the crimes he was convicted of and spent more than 20 years locked up for: the 1991 murder, kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman visiting Hawaii.
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Veronica Gail Kawananakoa, center, wife of Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawananakoa, stands by her wife's casket during a public memorial at 'Iolani Palace, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023, in Honolulu. The Campbell estate heiress with royal lineage died on Dec. 11, 2022, at the age of 96. Also pictured are members of the Hawaiian Royal Society Hale O Na Ali'i, which Kawananakoa was a member of. (Cindy Ellen Russell/Honolulu Star-Advertiser via AP)

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Public viewing at palace for 'last Hawaiian princess'
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press
Sun,01/22/23-12:42PM , 446 Reads
HONOLULU (AP) — The casket bearing the 96-year-old heiress long considered the last Hawaiian princess went on public display Sunday in the downtown Honolulu palace that benefited from her wealth.
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