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![Southwest Baptist University’s Meyer Wellness and Sports Center. [SBU website]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/0df20a7d-dce5-4702-90ae-a9a2286fccb5.jpeg?itok=9S8dO6RN "Southwest Baptist University’s Meyer Wellness and Sports Center. [SBU website]")
BOLIVAR, Mo. (AP) — A former football player at Southwest Baptist University was charged Wednesday in a videotaped assault at a group home for children.
Viavia Manuma, 24, is jailed in Polk County on $50,000 bond on one count of child abuse and two counts of first-degree assault in the July...
![At the time of the slaying, police probed the theory Smail Ayad may have been infatuated with Mia. [photo: The Sun —UK]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/nintchdbpict000261703038.jpg?itok=eqWNrZwr "At the time of the slaying, police probed the theory Smail Ayad may have been infatuated with Mia. [photo: The Sun —UK]")
LONDON (AP) — The mother of a backpacker slain in an Australian hostel wrote an open letter to U.S. President Donald Trump, rejecting the decision to label her daughter's death as a terror attack.
The August slayings of Mia Ayliffe-Chung, 20, and fellow Briton Tom Jackson, 30, were on a list of 78...
HONOLULU (AP) — They work without most basic labor protections just a few miles from Waikiki's white sand beaches, catching premium tuna and swordfish sold at some of America's most upscale grocery stores, hotels and restaurants.
About 700 of these foreign fisherman are currently confined to...
(AP) — A bettor using his phone app put $1.1 million on the Atlanta Falcons plus 3 points in the Super Bowl, part of an influx of money that could make Sunday a record day in Las Vegas sports books.
Sports books around the city said betting was strong leading up to the game, with a good chance the...
HOUSTON (AP) -- The Super Bowl halftime show is on Sunday. Someone maybe ought to tell Bruno Mars that.
The pop singer was in grade A form at a pre-Super Bowl show on Friday night, performing a top notch concert that matched the energy he showed when he hit the stage at halftime last year and in...
HONOLULU (AP) -- In a modest church building in urban Honolulu, mother Mona Aliksa waited to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
A small team of government and social service workers at folding tables helped Aliksa and...
HALEAKALA NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii (AP) — Well before dawn each morning, throngs of tourists from around the world make their way to Maui's tallest peak, a dormant volcano, to see what Mark Twain called the "sublimest spectacle" he ever witnessed.
They drive up a long, winding road through the clouds...
SYDNEY (AP) — For decades, Australia and the U.S. have enjoyed the coziest of relationships, collaborating on everything from military and intelligence to diplomacy and trade. Yet an irritable tweet President Donald Trump fired off about Australia and a dramatic report of an angry phone call...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Facebook is updating its "trending" feature that highlights hot topics on its social networking site, part of its effort to root out the kind of fake news stories that critics contend helped Donald Trump become president.
With the changes announced Wednesday, Facebook's...
HONOLULU (AP) -- As traditional commercial fishing is threatening fish populations worldwide, U.S. officials are working on a plan to expand fish farming into federal waters around the Pacific Ocean.
The government sees the move toward aquaculture as a promising solution to overfishing and feeding...