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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Holding their certificates are nine senior citizens who attended and completed the Territorial Administration on Aging (TAOA) course on introduction to basic computer usage training conducted by two TAOA officials as well as the agency’s director Evelyn Lili’o-Satele....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A young mother convicted of stealing and unlawful possession of illegal drugs was sentenced to 180 days at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF).
Julie Uiese, who was released on a $10,000 surety bond appeared in High Court last week for sentencing.
Uiese was...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The government’s case against a 27-year-old from Tafuna, who is one of the two defendants in an assault case that surfaced last year is going to trial after both sides failed to reach a solution.
Tafagamanu Vaili is facing one felony count of assault in the first degree...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Democratic Party in American Samoa has to change its mind about who should contest the US presidential election.
Michael Bloomberg initially won a majority of the territory's delegates, but he has since dropped out of the race.
The New York billionaire had a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has requested executive branch cabinet members to “fully cooperate” with the governor’s Rule Reform Panel (RRP). The panel was established to alleviate unnecessary public costs and regulatory burdens placed on the American Samoan people.
The...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata hailed President Trump signing into law on Friday the bipartisan $8 billion supplemental emergency funding act for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
“It’s good to see leaders in Washington come together on something this important and get the job done,”...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s Dept. of Health (DoH) is imposing new travel restrictions — effective Monday, Mar. 9th — on all passengers, including local residents — traveling from and transiting...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Associate Justice Fiti Sunia has dismissed with prejudice the government’s case against an ASG employee who was accused of engaging in a scheme that defrauded the Workmen’s Compensation Board of a little over $100,000.
(A court case that is dismissed with prejudice means...
Mother of four facing stealing charges — Said she knew it was wrong, but needed to feed her children
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A woman who is accused of stealing merchandise worth over $400 from a store in December of last year was arrested by police last week at a bus stop in the Tafuna area.
Foketi Laupana is being charged with one count of stealing, a felony, punishable by not more than 7...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The ASG appointed Energy Security Commission has assured Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga that fuel suppliers — Pacific Energy and Sunrise Oil — along with ASG entities, “are working to ensure that we would never run dry.”
Commission chairman, Taulapapa Willie Sword, who heads...

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