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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tomorrow, American Samoa joins the rest of the United States and Americans around the world in celebration of Thanksgiving Day — a federal and public holiday. Like the rest of the nation, many local residents will mark Thanksgiving with prayers and celebrations through...
Port Moresby, PAPUA NEW GUINEA — Miss Pacific Islands host Papua New Guinea welcomed their island brothers and sisters from across the Pacific this week as the weeklong pageant got underway with Miss American Samoa Epifania Petelo drawing the Contestant #3 position.
Coming together in PNG – the ...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Diocese of Samoa Pago Pago Hope House was officially awarded on Monday, a grant award by the local Department of Homeland Security (ASDHS) under the Non Profit Security Grant Program (NPSGP) FY 2019 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The grant will be...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The case against two men identified as members of the US Army Reserve (Infantry) in American Samoa is now bound over to High Court, after District Court Judge Elvis P. Patea found probable cause to bind the charges against them during a preliminary examination (PX) this...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A young man who is accused of escaping from confinement while serving a 30-year sentence for robbing 9 Asian stores, including a store in Nuuuli at gunpoint, is asking the court to set his new case for trial.
Richard Sifoa, represented by Assistant Public Defender Bob...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga’s Fisheries Task Force chairman, Solip Hong, has come out in support of a federal proposed rule, which addresses management of the “Area of Overlap” between the Convention Areas of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) and the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who was out on bond was remanded back to custody last week after he tested positive for meth, during a random test administered by Probation.
Wilson Logomai, who is facing drug charges, appeared in High Court last week for an Order to Show Cause (OSC) hearing on...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A verbal altercation that resulted in a taxi driver getting punched in the eye has netted Teofilo Faamanatu a 12-month probation sentence and a $100 fine to be paid within 30 days.
Faamanatu was initially charged with public peace disturbance and two counts of third...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The legal battle at a federal appeals court between the Territory of American Samoa — through ASG — and the US National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) over the reduction of the Large Vessel Prohibited Area in territorial waters is finally heading towards oral arguments...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 25-year-old man from Samoa has been sentenced to 48 months imprisonment, as a condition of a 7-year probation term for having a sexual relationship with two minor children between December 2017 and February 2018.
However, the detention period was suspended and the...