Virgins Safe in Hawaii

HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii (AP) - Rangers at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park are launching a program to stop people from leaving religious offerings at the summit of Mount Kilauea—including food they say attracts rats and cockroaches. Visitors leave 45 pounds of offerings from Halemaumau Crater each week, including flowers, bottles, money, incense, candles and crystals, park rangers say. But food offerings are the most problematic, they say. "The accumulation of rotting food and foliage attracts rats, flies, ants and cockroaches," a park statement said. One ranger recently found a whole, cooked piglet replete with a papaya, orange and apple in a cardboard box, the park service said.