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Thu, 10/03/2019 - 3:31am
FAAILOGA MO MALAKAI SEVAAETASI & MOLIMAU PATINO ATA GAOTEOTE
October 2019
Oakland A's pitcher Sean Manaea, 'The Throwin' Samoan,' talks small towns and heritage
Wed, 10/02/2019 - 11:11am
Oakland, CALIFORNIA — A Major League Baseball player of American Samoan descent is about as rare as, well, a Samoan in a small Indiana town.
No line item vetoes this year — Lolo signs FY 2020 budget of $421.48 million
Wed, 10/02/2019 - 8:00am
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga signed into law Monday this week, the government’s $421.48 million budget for fiscal year 2020 — which commenced yesterday, Oct.
16-yr-old girl claims she was sexually abused by a taxi driver
Wed, 10/02/2019 - 7:56am
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Police arrested a 46-year-old taxi driver from Tafeta last week, for the alleged sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl.
Edney Apulu is the 2020 Territorial Teacher of the Year
Wed, 10/02/2019 - 7:51am
![[l-r] Tafuna High School principal, Tutuila Togilau; Tafuna HS social studies teacher and 2020 Territorial Teacher of the Year, Edney Apulu; and Education director Dr. Ruth Matagi-Tofiga](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/2020_ttoy_014.jpg?itok=F6l-joN2 "[l-r] Tafuna High School principal, Tutuila Togilau; Tafuna HS social studies teacher and 2020 Territorial Teacher of the Year, Edney Apulu; and Education director Dr. Ruth Matagi-Tofiga yesterday, at the ASDOE main office where the TTOY 2020 selection was announced. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tafuna HS social studies teacher, Edney Gasmig Apulu, is the 2020 Territorial Teacher of the Year.
Ocean at 'breaking point': Pacific angst at latest climate report
Wed, 10/02/2019 - 7:46am
Vaitupu, TUVALU — For 74-year-old Teaga Esekia, a chief from the Tuvalu island of Vaitupu, the ocean is a lifeblood.
“My mother was violently abused,” daughter testifies at Samoa murder trial
Wed, 10/02/2019 - 7:39am
Apia, SAMOA — Fourteen year old Talei Justina Kelsall, daughter of the late Sa’u Justina Sa’u Lam, testified in court how her mother was violently abused by her step father, Kolani Junior Lam who s
Lolo calls the federal ASEDC credit a ‘vitally important tool’ in attracting businesses to American Samoa
Wed, 10/02/2019 - 7:12am
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov.
Mother seeks help in locating missing son
Wed, 10/02/2019 - 6:59am
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A concerned mother is asking for the public’s help in locating her son, whom she hasn’t seen or heard from in months.