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TEN TAKEN INTO CUSTODY OVER 3-DAY WEEKEND
Only ten individuals were taken into custody over the three-day New Year’s Day weekend and they all made their initial appearance yesterday in District Court, where the majority of them were released on their own recognizance, and are to appear again in...
![Congresswoman Amata and members of her staff with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on Swearing in Day for the 115th Congress. [courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/web_swearingin_1224_0.jpg?itok=HfgKrlNS "Congresswoman Amata and members of her staff with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on Swearing in Day for the 115th Congress. [courtesy photo]")
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata, and the House of Representatives convened the start of the 115th Congress after being sworn in yesterday afternoon by House Speaker Paul Ryan (WI), who was also re-elected by House Members to continue his post as Speaker of the House. “I could not be...
![Catholic Church leader, Bishop Peter Brown (middle) and eight religious leaders in American Samoa from various denominations carried out the Conferment Blessing for Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga (kneeling left) and Lt. Gov. Lemanu Palepoi Sialega Mauga at yesterday’s Inauguration ceremony for the Lolo and Lemanu Administration. [photo: AF]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/web_swearingin_1224.jpg?itok=9zLYYR7h "Catholic Church leader, Bishop Peter Brown (middle) and eight religious leaders in American Samoa from various denominations carried out the Conferment Blessing for Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga (kneeling left) and Lt. Gov. Lemanu Palepoi Sialega Mauga at yesterday’s Inauguration ceremony for the Lolo and Lemanu Administration. [photo: AF]")
Speaking in Samoan during his inauguration address, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga laid out the administration’s “five critical priorities” in the next four years, while Lt. Gov. Lemanu Palepoi Sialega Mauga gave a summary of the priorities in English.
The priorities are similar to issues Lolo shared...
![This photo provided by the Port Administration shows the new ASG vessel MV Manu’atele, which is scheduled to sail into the Port of Pago Pago around 9a.m. today, followed by a brief ceremony at the port. [photo: Port Administration]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Manua%20vessel.jpg?itok=8T6qMWB- "This photo provided by the Port Administration shows the new ASG vessel MV Manu’atele, which is scheduled to sail into the Port of Pago Pago around 9a.m. today, followed by a brief ceremony at the port. [photo: Port Administration]")
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has issued a public invitation to the people of American Samoa to attend a brief ceremony today, for the arrival of the government’s multi million dollar MV Manu’atele, which will service not only the Manu’a island group but in the future other neighboring Pacific islands...
After word broke on Friday that Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga had named Sen. Tuaolo Manaia Fruean as acting police commissioner, pending official nomination and confirmation by the Fono, former police commissioner Save Liuato Tuitele says he didn’t apply for a second term in the job.
Gov. Lolo made the...
A former Moanalua High School receiver has died after being shot in the head at the Ala Moana Center parking lot on Christmas night.
An unresponsive Stevie Feliciano, 20, died Wednesday at Queen’s Medical Center after being on life support following the shooting incident that occurred on the fifth...
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A man, in his early 20s, accused of assaulting a homeowner with a rock, pled not guilty last Friday in High Court where he was arraigned on two felony counts of first degree assault and burglary first degree following an incident on the evening of Nov. 12, 2016 in Ili’ili....
![The Samoa News ‘photo of the year’ came from Facebook and was published on Jan. 22, 2016. The photo posted by a parent, asked the question: “The faipule are asking for a salary raise again, but what about this issue?” It points to a student sitting on books, as the lack of chairs and desks for students has been a sore point with the parents of many schools in the territory. [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/E%20manaiaweb_.jpg?itok=fUcO8tzs "The Samoa News ‘photo of the year’ came from Facebook and was published on Jan. 22, 2016. The photo posted by a parent, asked the question: “The faipule are asking for a salary raise again, but what about this issue?” It points to a student sitting on books, as the lack of chairs and desks for students has been a sore point with the parents of many schools in the territory. [SN file photo]")
With the fishing industry in crisis both here and around the Pacific, American Samoa’s leaders are opposing expansion of Marine Monuments saying it takes away fishing grounds from U.S. flagged purse seiners, while ASG is firmly opposed to expansion of the LVPA to provide more fishing options to...
![[photo: AF]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/New%20Year%20baby%200281.jpg?itok=JC4wZqST "[photo: AF]")
American Samoa’s only New Year’s baby, Ms. Beloved Natayna Umaga carried by her father, Setefano Umaga, along with a representative of Pacific Independent Distributors Inc., Tulili Kelemete (standing left), who presented a gift basket for the Territory’s 2017 New Year’s baby yesterday afternoon at...
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga and Lt. Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga have extended a public invitation to the people of American Samoa to the inauguration ceremony for their second four-year term in office.
The ceremony is slated to start at 11:30a.m. today at the Malaeoletalu in Fagatogo. “This event has...