A 31-year-old motorcyclist was killed yesterday afternoon in a collision involving at least two vehicles on Pali Highway in upper Nu'uanu, forcing the closure of a section of the roadway to afternoon Kailua-bound traffic.

The accident was reported to police at 4:15 p.m. Kailua-bound traffic was being rerouted onto Old Pali Road, police said. The motorcyclist died at the scene. The death is O'ahu's 58th traffic fatality of the year and the seventh involving a motorcyclist.

MAN ARRESTED IN THREAT WITH KNIFE

A 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of terroristic threatening after police said he chased another man with a knife yesterday afternoon.

Police said the suspect spotted his ex-girlfriend with an 18-year-old man at about 2:30 p.m. on Ke'eaumoku Street. The suspect became angry, pulled out a knife and threatened the other man, police said.

The younger man ran, and the suspect chased him for a short distance. Police later found the suspect at a nearby hotel and arrested him.

DLNR PATROLS ON FISHING TO INCREASE

Enforcement officers with the state Department of Land and Natural Resources will help monitor federal fishing and protected resources under the terms of a one-year agreement signed yesterday with the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service.

The agreement comes with a $60,000 federal grant that will allow state enforcement officers 735 hours of additional patrol time, said Peter Young, chairman of the state land board. An additional $85,000 grant could come by the end of the month.

It will put "more boats in the water," Young said. "Ultimately, it means the feds will give us money so we can go conduct more marine patrols, do some dockside inspections, do some beachside surveillance and do some outreach in education dealing with marine related issues."

There are about 100 DLNR enforcement officers statewide. Fisheries service law enforcement officers monitor fishing-related matters ranging from long-line fishing to protection of delicate coral reefs.

ICE SENTENCE IS 15 YEARS, 8 MONTHS

A 41-year-old O'ahu woman has been sentenced to 15 years and eight months in prison for crystal methamphetamine convictions resulting from an undercover FBI investigation, federal prosecutors said yesterday.

Dory Kim Frantz was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway for conspiracy and drug distribution charges involving the purchase of 4 ounces of the drug in June last year, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Greg Frantz, 40, and Joey Nicolai, 36, were also arrested and pleaded guilty to possessing 4 ounces of ice, the office said. Greg Frantz received a prison term of 10 years and one month and Nicolai received a prison term of four years and nine months.

WOMAN KILLED IN CAR ACCIDENT

PUNA — A 27-year-old Mountain View woman died yesterday from injuries she sustained in a motor vehicle accident on Route 11, nearly a half-mile north of the 15 mile-marker. Big Island police identified the accident victim as Teresa Jarrett Jacober.

Puna patrol officers said Jacober was apparently heading north on Route 11 shortly before 1 a.m. in a 1998 Ford four-door sedan when she lost control of her car, crossed the centerline, struck an embankment and overturned. Jacober was apparently ejected from her car and then struck by a 1999 Mazda pickup truck traveling north, police said.

Jacober was transported to Hilo Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 4:34 a.m. The driver of the truck, a 63-year-old Mountain View man, was not injured.

The Big Island has recorded 22 traffic fatalities so far this year, compared with 21 at this time last year.

Police are asking anyone with information to call officer Robert Pauole at 961-8889.

ARSON DAMAGES TWO CLASSROOMS

KAHULUI — Fire ripped through two classrooms at Maui High School when someone apparently set some campus lockers ablaze early Monday morning.

No one was hurt, though the flames caused about $250,000 in damage to a school building and its contents in the fire after 1 a.m. Monday. Authorities said someone later set a second fire inside a trash bin at the school while firefighters were still at the scene.

Some sort of flammable liquid was poured on lockers in front of the building early Monday morning, then ignited, said acting police Capt. John Jakubczak of the Criminal Investigation Division. Authorities were alerted to the fire when a neighbor called to report the blaze. The first firefighters reached the school at 1:36 a.m. and the flames were extinguished by 2 a.m.

Students and teachers who normally study in the two damaged rooms are holding classes in the library and a room that is being turned into a computer lab.

"It's a loss to the students of Maui High School," principal Randy Yamanuha said, noting that burned classrooms held textbooks, several computers, and other electronic equipment, including a television and a videocassette recorder.