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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Lolo Administration’s annual Christmas Program for American Samoa’s senior citizens is set for the first week of next month and ASG agencies including semi autonomous agencies have been informed of how many Christmas gifts each should provide.
In a Nov. 13 letter to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Yesterday morning, due to a technical problem, Chief Justice Michael Kruse dismissed the jury, on day three, in the trial of former Police Watch Commander Mosese Lomu at 10:00 a.m. There were not other details forthcoming.
The case will resume at 9a.m this morning for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man from Samoa accused of assaulting his 59-year-old uncle with a shovel and damaging his uncle’s vehicle has entered into a plea agreement with the government.
Alex Unasa, 26, was initially charged with 2nd degree assault and 1st degree property damage, both class D...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The San Diego-based American Tunaboat Association (ATA) has lent its “strong support” to a proposed federal rule, which addresses management of the “Area of Overlap” between the Convention Areas of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) and the Western and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Division of Student Services Division (DOSS) at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) has announced the recipients of its fall 2019 In-House Scholarships — the Saili le Atamai and Presidential Merit scholarships.
Most high school graduates born in American...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Miss American Samoa, Epifania Petelo, accompanied by Simeafou Imo, president of the Miss American Samoa Inc. (MASI), departed the territory Tuesday this week heading to Apia en route to Papua New Guinea for the 2019- 2020 Miss Pacific Islands Pageant, where she will vie...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “It is with heartfelt sadness and the unenviable burden to announce the passing of my Chief Legal Counsel Steven Hammond Watson this morning at 5:30 a.m. at the LBJ Tropical Medical Center,” Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga announced yesterday late afternoon in a media release...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While Samoa's government is warning anyone trying to discourage people from getting measles vaccinations to stop it, American Samoa is fighting rumors about 14- 18 passengers off the Lady Naomi that were allowed to disembark at the Pago wharf without immunization records...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata said that the House has passed an extension of level federal government spending that includes an extra month for American Samoa’s 100 percent federal Medicaid match rate, now extended another 30 days through December 20, 2019.
This is the second...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Government witnesses, over the last two days of the Mosese Lomu jury trial, have pointed to actions that were not routine as part of what happened on the night where inmate Manu Lefatia allegedly escaped from the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) and shot a man in...