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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The High Court is satisfied there is probable cause that Tolupo Hodges violated several conditions of a probation sentence that was ordered by the court in 2010.
The decision by Chief Justice Michael Kruse was based on the testimony from one government witness, who was...
![31 soliders who were killed in Malaysia and Vietnam and have been lying in non-commonwealth war cemetaries [Photo: Supplied: Bob Davies via RNZI]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_Stone.jpg?itok=LSIhbgOm "31 soliders who were killed in Malaysia and Vietnam and have been lying in non-commonwealth war cemetaries [Photo: Supplied: Bob Davies via RNZI]")
RNZAF Base Ohakea, NEW ZEALAND — The first repatriation of defence force personnel buried around the world since 1955 will officially begin next week.
Two airmen will be disinterred from the Suva Military Cemetery in Fiji, and one from the naval section of the Satala Cemetery in Pago Pago, American...
![Artist Regina Meredith-Fitiao (2nd from left) of ASCC, with her husband Su’a Uilisone Fitiao of Pacific Horizons School, giving a siapo workshop at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. The workshop was for the benefit of museum professionals responsible for the care of historic siapo in their collections. [courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ASCC%20Meredith%20in%20Scotland.jpg?itok=582RWnNG "Artist Regina Meredith-Fitiao (2nd from left) of ASCC, with her husband Su’a Uilisone Fitiao of Pacific Horizons School, giving a siapo workshop at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. The workshop was for the benefit of museum professionals responsible for the care of historic siapo in their collections. [courtesy photo]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Situating Pacific Barkcloth in Time and Place is an ongoing, three-year interdisciplinary project currently underway at Scotland’s University of Glasgow. The project aims to find out more about the materials, history, uses and contemporary practice of making barkcloth,...
![Screenshot of the 2020 Census Questionnaire for the United States shows the citizenship question, with options to choose from but nothing for US Nationals — persons born in American Samoa. [photo: FS]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/citizen%20question.jpg?itok=AVDeBXTq "Screenshot of the 2020 Census Questionnaire for the United States shows the citizenship question, with options to choose from but nothing for US Nationals — persons born in American Samoa. [photo: FS]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US Census Bureau’s planned 2020 Census Questionnaire for the United States, which includes a question regarding citizenship status, leaves out US Nationals, which is the status given to persons born in American Samoa; and some US news outlets say this is a “flaw”.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Inquiries into the two alleged sexual harassment cases at the Dept. of Public Safety are now underway, with investigators from the Attorney General's Office now looking into the allegations.
Samoa News understands charges may be filed against two senior police officers,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 19-year-old girl who was convicted of stealing was released from custody last week, after the High Court decided that the four months she served at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF), to await sentencing, was enough.
Caroline Purcell was initially charged...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — More than $500,000 in tax refunds was scheduled to be released yesterday, Wednesday, Apr. 18.
In a statement issued this past Monday, ASG Treasurer Uelinitone Tonumaipea announced that all taxpayers who filed as of Jan. 24 and some who filed as of Jan. 29, 2018 are...
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Pago Pago AMERICAN SAMOA — Port Administration’s second tugboat, which is the Peggy H — it will be renamed the Iseula, was christened yesterday during a ceremony onboard the vessel, docked along the main harbor.
U.S. Interior Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs, Doug Domenech...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a statement Tuesday afternoon, the ASG and the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced the new list for villages up for registration at the Disaster Recovery Center (DRC), located inside the DYWA Pago Pago Youth Center.
The new list runs through...
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Washington, D.C. — Wednesday, April 18, 2018 — Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs Doug Domenech’s announcement granting $10.6 million in federal funds to American Samoa for infrastructure developmental needs...