Municipal trash likely won't be leaving O'ahu's shores until at least early February, according to the company with the contract to ship solid waste to the Mainland. Hawaiian Waste Systems is seeking an amendment to its compliance agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, or APHIS, because it wants to drop the garbage off at a different port and use a different shipper than originally approved.

A federal court jury deliberated only 3 1/2 hours yesterday before acquitting two men who work for a Waipahu agribusiness of multiple felony criminal charges related to the importation of undocumented farm laborers to Hawai'i.

Hawai'i County police are asking for the public's help in finding a man wanted for questioning in connection with a Dec. 23 robbery at the Prince Kuhio Plaza in Hilo.