MEN’S BASKETBALL

>> Higgy Katoa (Punahou), La Verne: Had 13 points, seven assists and five rebounds in a 74-70 loss to East Texas Baptist, missing a 3-pointer with six seconds left. Cody Aquino (Moanalua) rejoined the starting lineup and scored 12 points to lead the team a night later in a 104-76 loss to Grinnell, his second time this season in double figures.

>> Landyn Jumawan (Leilehua), Northwestern State: Lost his starting job but responded with 13 points with three 3-pointers in a 74-68 win over New Orleans. We was fouled on another 3-point attempt with two minutes left and buried all three to run the margin to four points.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

>> Paige Oh (‘Iolani), Puget Sound: Spent one game coming off the bench and led the Loggers with 10 points in a 42-36 win over Middlebury, returning to the starting lineup three nights later to extend the team’s winning streak to five.

>> Emi Wada (Hawaii Baptist), Pacific Lutheran: Grabbed an offensive rebound off a missed free throw with less than a second left in regulation and put it back with 0.2 seconds left to send the game into overtime, but the Lutes lost 72-62 to Lewis & Clark. She played a team-leading 45 minutes in the contest and scored seven points but didn’t get a shot off in overtime.

FOOTBALL

>> Gavin Hunter (Mililani), Arizona: Had a career-high eight tackles with one of them for a loss and broke up a pass in a 24-19 loss to Southern Methodist in the Holiday Bowl. Kaena Decambra (Saint Louis) started on the offensive line.

>> Iapani Laloulu (Farrington), Oregon: Kept the offensive line under control against a stiff defense in a 23-0 win over Texas Tech in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals, helping the offense generate 309 yards of offense while committing one turnover and allowing Dante Moore to get sacked only twice. Kawika Rogers (Kapaa) and Will Straton (Punahou) also contributed to the victory.

>> Blazen Lono-Wong (Kailua), Arizona State: Got onto the field but didn’t record a tackle in a 42-39 loss to Duke in the Sun Bowl. It was his first time since early October he has failed to make a stop, a span of seven games.

>> De’Zhaun Stribling (Kapolei), Mississippi: Caught seven passes for 122 yards in a 39-34 win over Georgia in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals, his first time this season over the century mark. It was the captain’s first time over 100 yards since November 2024 against Texas Tech when he was with Oklahoma State. His big catch was for 40 yards on third-and-5 with 32 seconds left to set up the game-winning field goal.

>> Aliki Vimahi (Kahuku), Utah: Collected three tackles and his first sack of the season in a 44-22 win over Nebraska in the Las Vegas Bowl and Brock Fonoimoana (Kahuku) added a tackle. Pupu Sepulona (Saint Louis) and Mana Carvalho (Kahuku) also contributed to the victory.

MEN’S WRESTLING

>> Xander Erolin (Hanalani), San Francisco State: Opened his year with a third-place finish at 157 pounds in Linfield’s Mat Cat Open, going 3-1 with winning scores of 16-0, 11-2 and 15-4. His lone loss was 4-2 to the eventual champion.

WOMEN’S WRESTLING

>> Michaela Sarmiento (Kalaheo), Southern Oregon: With most of the rest of the nation off to prepare for the national duals, she took third place at 103 pounds in Linfield’s Mat Cat Open. She began the tournament with a 16-4 victory and ending it with a 9-8 win over teammate Diamond Lopez.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Hawaii Island police are renewing their request for the public’s assistance in locating 82-year-old Jacquelyn Glenn of Kailua-Kona, who was reported missing by her family.

Police said she is considered endangered due to her age.

Glenn was last seen on Friday, Dec. 5, around 6:37 a.m., on the 75-200 block of Nani Kailua Dr. in Kailua-Kona.

She was wearing a peach-colored shirt, blue denim jeans, and black tennis shoes. She reportedly mentioned going to Hilo with friends, but did not say when she planned to return.

She is described as 5′6″, 125 Ibs, with curly grey hair and brown eyes.

Police ask anyone with information on the whereabouts of Jacquelyn Glenn to call the Hawaii Police Department’s non-emergency line at (808) 935-3311.

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Hawaii has been awarded nearly $190 million in federal funding to augment rural health care under President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” through a plan co-written by Democratic Gov. Josh Green.

Green told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser Monday that the amount of funding means Hawaii now ranks sixth in the country per capita in federal rural health care funding. He said it’s the result of working with fellow Pennsylvania native and physician Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the federal Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services.

Green started his Hawaii medical career treating
rural, low-income patients at Hawaii island’s Kau Hospital &Rural Health Clinic.

Hawaii’s initial $188,892 million in rural health care funding for the current fiscal year is scheduled to be followed by additional awards through 2030.

Green serves as vice chair of the Western Governors’ Association and said rural health care needs affect both red and blue states.

“The whole country’s dealing with this,” he said.

For the last three years, Green has won state legislative support for $30 million in annual state funding to pay down student loans for a wide range of Hawaii health care workers, not just physicians and nurses.

Green hopes the new federal Rural Health Transformation Program funding, the ongoing Hawaii Education Loan Repayment Program, called HELP, and his ongoing push to develop affordable housing for first responders, teachers, health care workers and other necessary workers combine to erase Hawaii’s shortage of 50,000 health care by 2030.

The new, rural health care funding through the Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Serv­ices “comes at a perfect time,” Green said. “This could level the playing field.”

For a country divided along partisan political lines, Green said the rural health care funding serves as “a tool to bridge that gap between red and blue states.”

Despite political differences over Trump Administration policies — especially Green’s opposition to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccination policies — Green said he continues to work with Trump and Trumps’ cabinet and administration officials to reduce the impact of federal funding cuts to Hawaii.

Green previously told the Star-Advertiser that his current state budget proposal was drafted to respond to the likelihood that more federal funding cuts will occur this year, including the possibility of tapping into the state’s $1.6 billion rainy day fund as tourism and the overall Hawaii economy continue to slow.

The Council on Revenues is scheduled to make its
latest economic forecast on Wednesday, which will give Green and legislators more guidance on how to prepare for what might lie ahead as the legislative session begins on Jan. 21.

Hawaii and Utah remain the only states with no legal gambling but efforts to legalize some form of gambling — from a lottery to Las
Vegas-style casinos — are
introduced every year at the Legislature.

This year likely will be no exception but Green said any gambling proposals, in his mind, “have got to be part of solving our social ills,” such as housing and health care.

Recruiting and retaining health care workers — especially in rural areas — remains a national problem and in July Green’s administration began organizing health care officials to come up with
recommendations for:

>> A state digital network linking hospitals, clinics and health centers called the
Rural Health Information Network to access health rec­ords and other data.

>> A statewide Pili Ola Teleheath Network for rural communities to connect to with health care providers and access telehealth training.

>> Expand emergency medical services, mobile health care, community paramedicine and behavioral health in rural areas through Rural Infrastructure for Care Access.

>> A pipeline to provide workforce training, residencies, scholarships and mentoring to recruit and retain rural health care workers through a Hawai‘i Outreach for Medical Education in
Rural Under-resources Neighborhoods program called HOME RUN.

>> Expand Green’s homeless “medical respite” kauhale village concept to the neighbor islands that has proven to reduce medical costs, emergency room visits and health care worker time treating homeless
patients who rely on paramedics and ambulances to transport them to Oahu
hospitals.

Housing people with medical issues in kauhale, where they can receive treatment, “is better than having people on the street or in the E.R.,” Green said. “We’ve saved
tens of millions of dollars.”

>> Dedicate a fund to help rural health care providers develop new models to ensure quality and access to rural health care.

At the same time, Green has not given up that Congress could still vote to extend health care subsidies for people who receive their health care through the
Affordable Care Act.

Congress failed to extend the subsidies at the end of 2025, leading Affordable Care Act costs to double in many instances.

For Republicans seeking re-election this year, Green said failing to extend the subsidies “is like dropping a nuclear bomb on the mid-term elections.”

For low-income patients, in particular, Green said, “That’s how you go bankrupt. This will be the ultimate game changer in the mid-terms if they don’t extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies.”