![Samoan police headquarters in Apia [Photo: RNZI/Sally Round]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/samoa_police_3.jpeg?itok=_rDoXjuw "Samoan police headquarters in Apia [Photo: RNZI/Sally Round]")
Police in Samoa have appealed to the public for help to identify the driver of a vehicle believed have been involved in fatal a hit and run accident which claimed the life of an Australia missionar
![Seve Paeniu [Photo: CIECC via RNZI]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_seve.jpg?itok=6YHcjLWB "Seve Paeniu [Photo: CIECC via RNZI]")
The Oceania Customs Organisation secretariat says it is seeing a worrying increase in methamphetamine imported to the region.
![[SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/samoa%20court_2.jpg?itok=SVLrvIFv "[SN file photo]")
A Samoan father of seven who killed his son with a machete has had murder charges against him dismissed by a panel of five assessors.
![[SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/SRU%20sign_0186_1.jpg?itok=6ntuQ3VM "[SN file photo]")
Bluesky Samoa has come to the rescue of Samoa rugby once more.
![[SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Pago%20Dist%20Court%20014_50.jpeg?itok=Kma30pei "[SN file photo]")
A young man who was convicted for misdemeanor stealing has been ordered to serve 30 days behind bars.
![Rep. Su’a Alexander E. Jennings (right) speaking to participants of the Nov. 16 first-ever U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Dried Fruit Expo in Washington, D.C. Su’a also gave a presentation on the possibilities and potential for breadfruit and banana flours grown and made in American Samoa. [photo: Tom Payne]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/USDA%20expo-Jennings%20002.jpg?itok=VSMAIGrB "Rep. Su’a Alexander E. Jennings (right) speaking to participants of the Nov. 16 first-ever U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Dried Fruit Expo in Washington, D.C. Su’a also gave a presentation on the possibilities and potential for breadfruit and banana flours grown and made in American Samoa. [photo: Tom Payne]")
American Samoa was one of the groups represented at the first U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Dried Fruit Expo in Washington, D.C.,on Nov. 16, 2017.
Executive Director/Campus Dean of the Hawaii campus of Wayland Baptist University, Dr.
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Ua tofu atu nei i luma o le Fa’amasinoga Maualuga le mataupu o lo o tu’uaia ai e le malo le ali’i o Cody Wood, ina ua malie le ua molia e fa’aagafua ona aia faaletulafono, e aua ai ne’i fa’ataunu’u
![[photo: American Samoa Community Cancer Coalition Facebook]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/amsam%20cancer%20coalition.jpg?itok=JIgDoFQh "[photo: American Samoa Community Cancer Coalition Facebook]")
To improve its financial stipend program and help its patient-recipients, the American Samoa Community Cancer Coalition, through funding received from the Department of the Interior in 2017, in par