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Finding ways to help Maui wildfire survivors and the rebuilding of Lahaina will likely dominate this legislative session — the first session since the firestorm on Aug. 8 swept through the historic town.

A second Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustee who supervises her daughter has been looking for a new position for her to comply with Hawaii’s new anti-nepotism law that applies to all state employees except the state Legislature and Judiciary.

The first request for an exemption from the state’s new anti-nepotism law — submitted by Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustee Brickwood Galuteria, who supervises his daughter — has been denied by the Hawaii Ethics Commission.

A new law took effect Tuesday prohibiting nepotism across state government — particularly for the 60,000 employees in the executive branch — but notably exempts the state Legislature and Judiciary.

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Robert D. Harris, 72, of Virginia will be transferred to the Illinois Department of Corrections to serve two life sentences concurrently following a January 2021 double-homicide.

A motion for a new trial in the shooting of two women in Virginia was denied Thursday by a Cass County court. 

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Your source for news and information in West Central Illinois. WLDS/WEAI Radio in Jacksonville, Illinois.

Robert D. Harris, 72, of Virginia was found guilty on six counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in the 2021 shooting deaths of Kathleen G. Wzientek, 68, and Brenda G. Crum, 64.