HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow)- The 35th annual Hawaii Lodging & Tourism Association (HTLA) Visitor Industry Charity Walk raised a record $1,671,436 Saturday.

"Our visitor industry works hard all year to put together this event that serves Hawaii's non-profits and communities.I'm so proud of this record-setting Charity Walk by the people and friends of our visitor industry," said Julie Arigo, this year's Charity Walk chairman and general manager of Waikiki Parc Hotel. "It's a wonderful outpouring of kindness and kokua that exemplifies our aloha spirit. A big mahalo to all of the thousands of folks who participated and gave so generously."

A total of 14,736 walkers on Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Maui, and Hawaii Island participated in the fundraiserthat generates monies for hundreds of local charities. Maui raised the most funds of any of the Islands for the third consecutive year with an impressive $701,716 – a record for the Island.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow)- The Annual Honolulu Triathlon will take place Sunday, May 19, 2013, and will start at Ala Moana Beach Park at 5:45 a.m.

Participants will begin with a 1500 meter swim, followed by a 25 mile bike ride along Ala Moana Boulevard, Nimitz Highway, and Lagood Drive, and finally will run 6.2 miles back to Ala Moana Beach Park.

The following traffic restrictions will be in place:

The Bike Course will be held on the Makai (ocean) side of Ala Mona Blvd from Ala Moana Beach Park, Ewa bound, to Nimitz under the viaduct, past the airport to the turnaround at Arizona and Nimitz - Halawa Gate (the intersection just before the Arizona Memorial). The bikes will make a 180 U-turn and return to Nimitz under the viaduct, making a right on Lagoon Drive, riding on the Diamond Head Side to the end, and then back to Nimitz, making a right and back onto Nimitz and Ala Moana Blvd, to Ala Moana Beach Park.

Alison Ashford remembers her youth in Oxford, England, and how she used to prepare  a thermos of tea for her father, a British policeman-turned-private eye, when he went out on a stakeout. (soundbites 2262, 2263)
"It's in the blood, I guess," said Ashford who created Mid-Pacific Institute's first elective forensic science course.
Using their iPads (every Mid-Pac student has one), Ashford's high school students sleuthed  through the stately old Chang House at the top of the campus  this morning.
Murder, suicide, burglary were all on the menu for crime-solving. 
Groups of students probed crime scenes, dusting for prints,  swabbing blood spatters, bagging and tagging all weapons and trace evidence. Photographers and sketch artists documented the process.
Ashford said she wanted to start the course "because of my own passion for the marriage of mystery and science."