Leila Fujimori is a reporter covering the courts beat for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. With over 20 years of professional reporting experience, she focuses on themes such as disaster and emergency response, public event safety, and social interest, while also delving into topics related to agriculture, climate change, and the environment. Leila's work has been featured in notable publications including Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance, and the Anchorage Daily News.
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Leila Fujimori's focus on evolving crime stories and breaking news in Hawaii indicates a preference for pitches related to ongoing criminal cases, legal issues, and developments within the local legal system. She may be particularly interested in receiving information or commentary from sources with direct knowledge of these cases or those involved.
Given her emphasis on coverage of local crime and court cases, outreach efforts should aim to provide unique insights into ongoing legal matters specific to Hawaii or offer expert analysis relevant to the region’s judicial system.
Pitches could also include updates on legislative changes impacting the justice system in Hawaii as well as government and political developments that intersect with crime-related topics.
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By: Leila Fujimori
Hawaii island avoided a direct hit from Hurricane Lala Saturday by about 30 miles, but the storm still wreaked havoc across the island before weakening as it moved toward Oahu, where officials warned residents to prepare for worsening conditions today.
By: Victoria Budiono, Leila Fujimori
The two medics stood on the top of their truck after it got caught in raging floodwater near Lala.
By: Leila Fujimori
City officials have ordered Happy Days Chinese Seafood Restaurant to remain closed pending an investigation following the collapse of a large section of ceiling onto diners at the popular Chinese restaurant Tuesday inside a 91-year-old Kaimuki building.
By: Leila Fujimori
The “doors-off” sightseeing helicopter tour that Patrick Haskell, 59, and Margaret Rimmler, 65, took March 26 along the picturesque Napali Coast on Kauai was supposed to be safe.
Chauntelle Acol had just turned 8 and was in the second grade in 1997 when her stepfather treated her and her older brother, Allan, to burritos and Sprite, sat them down on their back porch and told them that “Pepe was going to go live with family to learn Hawaiian stuff.”
The property owner of a 91-year-old Kaimuki building where a ceiling collapse on Aug. 18, injured patrons of a popular Chinese restaurant, has “begun repairing the wall along 11th Avenue that may pose a hazard,” Department of Planning and Permitting officials said.
By: Leila Fujimori
Scott David DeAngelo, who jumped from the window of a burning fourth-floor Pearl City apartment after fatally stabbing his 33-year-old roommate in the neck, then fleeing in the roommate’s car, was convicted by a jury on April 12, 2024, of murder and arson.
By: Leila Fujimori
Seven students from Hiroshima, Japan, folded origami paper cranes with their Hawaii counterparts and others Saturday morning at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial in memory of Sadako Sasaki, a young girl who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima but was stricken with leukemia from radiation and died 10 years later at age 12.
The 12 jurors who served during Gerhardt Konig’s attempted murder trial must return to the courtroom for questioning on possible jury misconduct.
By: Leila Fujimori
Jurors at the trial of a 24-year-old Manoa man heard testimony Wednesday of a University of Hawaii graduate research assistant who described being sexually assaulted the night of July 18, 2022, by a stranger inside her rented Manoa studio inside a multistory, multi-unit house.
