Citing the need to protect the environment, the Hawaii County Council yesterday voted 5 to 3 to ban Big Island businesses from offering plastic checkout bags, following suit after Maui.
Maui has passed a law prohibiting businesses from providing customers with plastic shopping bags, and Hawaii County is poised to approve a similar measure.
"I'm not that kind of person that would attack somebody." So said the former Hawaii County firefighter on trial for sexual assault, kidnapping and terroristic threatening during an interview with police.
