Law enforcement efforts to stop the proliferation of illegal aerial fireworks in Hawaii have led to two no contest pleas and ...

Maui police recently seized 107 pounds of aerial fireworks, 95 mortar shells and 40,610 firecrackers that were being shipped from the Mainland to Maui through the U.S. Postal Service. In the boxes ...

So, what exactly is an aerial cake? Richard Meier, a fire and explosion investigator with expertise in fireworks, said an aerial firework generally is lit on the ground and explodes in the air.

Consumer fireworks, like sparklers, can be used year-round; aerial fireworks are a different story. Many of the ones we're seeing across the Valley on and before New Year's were obtained illegally ...

If the timing is off, the firework might detonate too close to the ground. Great care is used in designing the fuses and calculating their lengths. Stars are the precious cargo carried by "aerial ...

This concludes the second of two cases brought by a state fireworks task force – both for low-level offenders.

One address on shipping documents in a seizure at Honolulu Harbor is the first in a chain of clues that lead across the ...

Maui police issued two fireworks violation citations over the weekend to two residents igniting illegal aerial fireworks, police said Monday. Around 7 p.m. Saturday, a witness reported residents ...

Ways to toughen legal penalties for those caught using illegal aerial pyrotechnics advanced during discussion of a Honolulu ...

Crackdown in Hawaii leads to sentencing for illegal fireworks distributions and charges against another for unlicensed ...

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They were arrested on suspicion of fireworks penalty, which deals with “importing aerial devices, display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnic without having a valid license” and/or “the ...