The American Samoa High School Athletics Association (ASHSAA) Girl’s Softball game that took place last Thursday afternoon at the Tony Sola’ita Baseball field in Tafuna, between the Faasao Marist C
![McDonald’s American Samoa vice president of Marketing and Public Relations, Larry Sanitoa (far left), pictured with students who took first, second and third place —there were two who placed third — following yesterday’s Samoa News 2017 Territorial Spelling Bee competition at the KVZK-TV studio. [photo: AF]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/spelling%20bee%202017_0624.jpg?itok=UJ9v-sdc "McDonald’s American Samoa vice president of Marketing and Public Relations, Larry Sanitoa (far left), pictured with students who took first, second and third place —there were two who placed third — following yesterday’s Samoa News 2017 Territorial Spelling Bee competition at the KVZK-TV studio. [photo: AF]")
St. Theresa Elementary’s 8th grader, Avril Regis, took first place yesterday in the 23rd annual Samoa News Territorial Spelling Bee competition. McDonald’s American Samoa is the major sponsor.
![Fleomavaega Eni Hunkin on the phone with a Samoa News reporter on Election Night 2010. He received 56.3% of the vote in a three-way race. [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ENI%20ON%20PHONE%20WITH%20SNweb.jpg?itok=fXjByEHP "Fleomavaega Eni Hunkin on the phone with a Samoa News reporter on Election Night 2010. He received 56.3% of the vote in a three-way race. [SN file photo]")
Former Congressman Faleomavaega Eni Hunkin, American Samoa’s longest serving non-voting Delegate to the U.S House of Representatives, passed away around 3:20p.
In this Samoa News file photo taken during the 2010 campaign, then Congressman Faleomavaega Eni Hunkin posed with his wife Hinanui. American Samoa’s longest serving non-voting Delegate to the U.S
Le nofoaga o le falepuipui o tamaiti i Tafuna. [ata AF]
E to’afa Leoleo sa galulue i le Falepuipui o Tamaiti i Tafuna (Juvenile Detention Center - JDC) ua fa’amalolo mai a latou galuega, e mafua mai i tu’uaiga na alia’e mai i le fa’aiuga o le tausaga na
O se tasi o fautuaga sa tu’uina atu e afioga i Faipule o le maota o sui i le vaiaso na te’a nei, ina ua latou fesiligia agava’a o le afioga a Samana Semo Ve’ave’a, e pei ona tofia ai o ia e avea ma
O le toe oo mai ai o le fa’ama’i o le Dengue Fever i laufanua o Amerika Samoa, e mafua mai i le siama (virus) o loo feavea’i e le iniseti fa’alafua o le namu o loo tau tu’ufua solo i nofoaga o loo
![Faleomavaega during the 2014 Flag Day celebration. [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Eni%20Hunkinweb.jpg?itok=d4Q33ggk "Faleomavaega during the 2014 Flag Day celebration. [SN file photo]")
Former Congressman Faleomavaega Eni Hunkin, American Samoa’s longest serving non-voting Delegate to the U.S House of Representatives, passed away today, Feb.
![Jason Vele proudly wears the American Samoa flag at every fight to show where he is from, and who has now qualified into one of the big leagues of the MMA competition, representing American Samoa. [courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/JasonVele.jpg?itok=vlNAaSZl "Jason Vele proudly wears the American Samoa flag at every fight to show where he is from, and who has now qualified into one of the big leagues of the MMA competition, representing American Samoa. [courtesy photo]")
Jason Vele of Tafeta, never thought he would have any interest in Mixed Martial Arts — which is a full-contact combat sport that allows both grappling and striking, both standing and on the ground,
![Some of the 40 recruits of the 25th Police Academy, which started yesterday at the Veterans Memorial Center at Tafuna Industrial Park. [photo: AF]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/police%20academy%200424.jpg?itok=jOIhf8ZV "Some of the 40 recruits of the 25th Police Academy, which started yesterday at the Veterans Memorial Center at Tafuna Industrial Park. [photo: AF]")