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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Fofo Faipule, Fagaoatua Dorian Salavea is requesting the House Public Safety Committee for a hearing with Police Commissioner Le’i Sonny Thompson, to explain why the Fire Division was removed from the Leone Substation. Fagaoatua told the House this week that changes made...
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Pago Page, AMERICAN SAMOA — A woman accused of assaulting two women at church was sentenced late last week by the District Court.
Court information says Monica Asovale was charged with two counts of misdemeanor third degree assault for the incident.
According to the court affidavit, the defendant...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — According to a press release, dated March 12, 2018 — StarKist Samoa has announced that it made a donation of $50,000 to the American Samoa Government (ASG) to help in Hurricane Gita relief efforts. Accepting the donation on behalf of ASG was Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Territorial Individual Assistance director, Makerita Fiso (right) with US Federal Emergency Management Agecy (FEMA) personnel, Jesus Ceja and Rona McCloud at the joint ASG and FEMA operated Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) at the Department of Youth and Women’s Affairs...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Students from the Department of Education's Special Education Division, attended a church service at the CCCAS Matu’u and Faganeanea last Sunday to kick off ASDOE-SpEd’s Developmental Disability Awareness Month 2018.
Rev. Fouvale Asiata led the service and added to the...
![This is the house at the back of the old DPS building in Fagatogo where Mua’iga Siatiu a.k.a Povi is serving his 5-year straight sentence, after he was convicted by the High Court last year for sodomizing a 5-year-old girl. [photo: AF]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Povis%20locking%20cell_0847.jpg?itok=FVPRMH1h "This is the house at the back of the old DPS building in Fagatogo where Mua’iga Siatiu a.k.a Povi is serving his 5-year straight sentence, after he was convicted by the High Court last year for sodomizing a 5-year-old girl. [photo: AF]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The man convicted of sodomizing a 5-year-old girl and was seen by members of the community including family members of the young girl roaming freely with some of the DPS police officers is finally being locked up without release, by orders of Police Commissioner Le’i...
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Pago Pago AMERICAN SAMOA — A recommendation by three senators to scale back this year’s Flag Day, as many families impacted by Tropical Storm Gita are in need of financial assistance, will be delivered by Senate President Gaoteote Tofau Palaie to the Lolo Administration.
The recommendation, or “...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The beating and abuse of two inmates who escaped twice from prison this year is allegedly continuing inside the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) in Tafuna.
Samoa News received numerous phone calls last week — straight from some of the inmates inside the TCF,...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Chief Immigration Officer Peseta Dennis Fuimaono and his staff are ready to present to the Trial Division of the American Samoa High Court the file that contains all the accurate information about an over-stayer who is now serving time at the Territorial Correctional...
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Washington, D.C.— Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed the latest in an ongoing series of House/Senate Joint Hearings on veterans’ issues, this one a Veterans Service Organization presentation, and on Tuesday discussed health care and VA services with a visiting group representing the VFW of Hawai’i...