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Police are at the scene of an apparent homicide at Waimanalo Beach Park, a Honolulu Police Department spokesperson confirmed.

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Service providers who serve keiki say they’re devastated by the news about Isabella “Ariel” Kalua’s death and the horrendous allegations against her adoptive parents.

Police say her parents kept her in a dog cage in the bathroom with duct tape over her nose and mouth. They believe she was killed in mid-August, a full month before she was reported missing.

And one of her older siblings had to carry her lifeless body, police say.

“It brings tears because we know the impact on children,” said Leilani Kupahu-Marino Kahoano, cofounder of the Association for Infant Mental Health in Hawaii.

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City Prosecutor Steve Alm announced Monday that “after much thought” he has decided not to pursue a third trial against Christopher Deedy, the federal agent who fatally shot a man a decade ago during an altercation inside a Waikiki McDonald’s.

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City Prosecutor Steve Alm announced Monday that he will not pursue another prosecution of Christopher Deedy, the federal agent who fatally shot a man in Waikiki a decade ago during an altercation inside a Waikiki McDonald’s.

Deedy had been facing a third trial in the case.

But because of prior hung juries, the agent ― who had argued he acted in self-defense ― would have been facing assault charges rather than murder or manslaughter.

“I have made this decision very carefully and after much thought,” Alm said, in a news conference. “This office has had two full chances to convict Christopher Deedy. They were unsuccessful.”

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The Hawaii News Now sports team sits down with Hawaii-born quarterback Marcus Mariota to catch up on what his tenure with the Las Vegas Raiders has been like so far. As we find out in this episode, Mariota says he can still see and feel the support on the Ninth Island.

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Court documents released Friday reveal horrific new allegations against the adoptive parents charged with murdering 6-year-old Isabella “Ariel” Kalua, including that they kept her in a dog cage in the bathroom with duct tape on her mouth and refused to feed her.

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