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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Government employees making $50,000 or less a year will be entitled to overtime pay for work outside of their usual 40-hours per week for work involving the coronavirus declaration.
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga announced the “benchmark” overtime pay for COVID-19 during the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — During sentencing for a young man convicted of stealing a vehicle while he was intoxicated, Associate Justice, Fiti Sunia stated that any time a person is intoxicated and drives a vehicle on the road, the vehicle becomes a deadly weapon.
Mealeaga Ale, who had been in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A young woman told the court last month that the reason she missed two court hearings was because she traveled to Samoa to visit her sick father.The court then informed the young woman that she’s not allowed to leave the territory while her court case is still pending....
Washington, D.C. — Tuesday, May 4, 2020 — Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed a grant for American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA) of over $1.2 million through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
This award provides $1,200,749.98 in federal funding for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Even though we will have slightly above average temperatures this week, easterly trade winds will increase up to 20 mph at times from Wednesday through Friday night.
Latest satellite visible imagery loop continues to show fair weather cumulus clouds moving over the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US Treasury and the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have approved American Samoa’s implementation plan for the disbursement and distribution of the stimulus payments to local qualified tax payer under provisions of the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who is on probation for stealing was arrested again by police on the allegation he violated local drug laws.
Uelese Toia was a passenger in a red pick-up truck that was pulled over by police two weekends ago in Iliili where two glass pipes (commonly used to smoke...
Apia, SAMOA — An engineer from LBJ hospital traveled to Samoa this past Friday to repair Samoa’s only C.T. machine. The Samoa Observer reports that the C.T. has been out of order since at least October.
(C. T. or computed tomography is a type of imaging used in hospitals. It uses special x-ray...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man convicted of unlawful possession of illegal drugs told the court that the eight and a half months he spent in prison was more than enough to teach him a good lesson to become a better man in the future.
When given the chance to address the court, Ah Chong Lefatia...
Portland, OREGON — Recently, Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) took a look at how the pandemic has changed lives of Oregon college students. And they found that life has changed rapidly for many of them in the past few months, including Motu Sipelii from American Samoa.
Sipelii, 22, is a first-...