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WASHINGTON, DC — Laast Thursday Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced legislation to ensure more reliable air service within American Samoa to benefit residents within the territory as well as the substantial American Samoan community in Utah and the United States.
The proposal, S. 2348, will help...
![Tuesday was a busy day in Congress ahead of the State of the Union speech. [Courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Amata%20Jan.jpg?itok=11yLwarc "Tuesday was a busy day in Congress ahead of the State of the Union speech. [Courtesy photo]")
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed an oversight hearing on Tuesday examining how recent veterans’ legislation passed by Congress in August of 2017 is being implemented by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Congresswoman Amata co-sponsored the bipartisan Veterans Appeals...
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Department of Human and Social Services has sufficient money in its approved fiscal year 2018 budget for the American Samoa American Samoa Nutrition Assistance Program (ASNAP) — food stamps — for the rest of the fiscal year, while the federal grantor has been briefed on the latest development...
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Police arrested a 66-year-old taxi driver from Pago Pago on Sunday night, for allegedly sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl. The taxi driver is one of the tenants at a rental house-building in Pago Pago, where the victim and her family also stay.
Pitone Sivatia made his initial appearance in...
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This photo that is also being shared on Facebook, shows the former Ms. Juliette Spencer, after she was crowned the first Miss South Pacific during the pageant held in Apia, Samoa, in 1987. She was the Miss American Samoa at the time. The pageant was later renamed the Miss Pacific Islands Pageant....
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Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga believes another federal government shutdown towards the end of next week is inevitable and has urged cabinet members, whose agencies are funded by grants, to keep in close contact with their federal grantor.
Current federal funding, which became effective Jan. 23, after a...
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The Appellate Division of the High Court of American Samoa has denied the former Congregational Christian Church of American Samoa’s General Secretary, Rev. Amaama Tofaeono and his wife their motion of stay of writ of restitution and bond. However, to avoid an unfair burden on the appellants’ right...
District Court Judge Fiti Sunia denied motions for bail reduction requests from two of the three defendants in the Department of Human and Social Services (DHSS) food stamp fraud case last week; and all of the defendants are scheduled to appear before the court next month for their preliminary...
![Gov. Lolo M. Moliga [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/GovLolo_0766_21.jpg?itok=gkCJbJ_6 "Gov. Lolo M. Moliga [SN file photo]")
The Lolo Administration is prepared to transmit a letter later this week to the US Department of Homeland Security (USDHS) outlining American Samoa’s implementation plan for full compliance with the federal REAL ID Act regarding locally issued driver’s license and identification cards.
While driver...
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Samoa is questioning why American Samoa is continuing a taro importation ban from its western cousins.
The chief executive of Samoa's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries said the taro virus that caused the ban has been found in crops from American Samoa.
Tilafono David Hunter said the ministry...