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![Saturday morning, a look at a home that had its roof blown off during strong winds from Friday’s Tropical Storm Gita. Samoa News observed several homes in Nu’uuli along the main road, had roofs blown off by strong winds. Similar reports were coming from other villages on Tutuila. [photo: Fili Sagapolutele]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/damaged%20house_0819.jpg?itok=IkGswUwZ "Saturday morning, a look at a home that had its roof blown off during strong winds from Friday’s Tropical Storm Gita. Samoa News observed several homes in Nu’uuli along the main road, had roofs blown off by strong winds. Similar reports were coming from other villages on Tutuila. [photo: Fili Sagapolutele]")
A US Coast Guard C130 aircraft is enroute from Honolulu to American Samoa with officials from the Coast Guard and US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Scott Carr said from Honolulu this morning that the plane is carrying USCG personnel who will be checking on the...
Due to severe winds, Hawaiian Airlines has canceled the flight today (Sat. Feb.10, 2018) that was delayed from Friday due to Tropical Storm Gita.
Hawaiian flight 1465 departs Honolulu at 9:30a.m. (Hawai'i time) on Sunday, Feb. 11 and arrives in Pago Pago at 2:20p.m.
Hawaiian flight 1466 departs...
![creenshot from a video on Facebook of floodwater on Savai'i.[ Photo: Facebook / Liyah Leyfy]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/flood%20damage%20savaii.jpg?itok=euPw4Bft "creenshot from a video on Facebook of floodwater on Savai'i.[ Photo: Facebook / Liyah Leyfy]")
A state of disaster has been declared in Samoa as authorities focus on rescue and evacuation in the wake of Cyclone Gita.
The cyclone tore through the country bringing damaging winds and torrential rain but is now moving away to the south-east.
Ulu Bismarck Crawley, head of the Ministry of Natural...
![[SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/AM%20Samoa%20HC_91.jpeg?itok=bb2YkqMX "[SN file photo]")
A child custody battle case out of a Missouri court has spilled over to the territory when local police enforced a Missouri court order, which didn’t sit well with the High Court of American Samoa that has described the action as “disdainful”, according to court documents.
In a decision issued...
Pursuant to a request made by the American Samoa Medicaid State Agency to amend the Medicaid State Plan, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved an increase in the DOH Federally Qualified Health Center's (FQHC community health centers) reimbursement rate to $150 per patient...
Police are still searching for the two inmates who escaped from the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) in Tafuna on Monday, Feb. 5, 2018. This is the second time this year inmates have escaped from confinement — and two familiar faces are in the lineup.
In an interview with Police Commissioner...
![Rendering of proposed new Fono Building [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fono%20bldg%20rendering_31.jpg?itok=SMHfQNIe "Rendering of proposed new Fono Building [SN file photo]")
The Fono will be taking a four-week mid session recess starting at the close of business today and will reconvene on Mar. 12, in order preserve legislative session days for the most efficient use, according to the Fono approved concurrent resolutions calling for the recess.
Both the Senate and...
![Rotary Club of Pago Pago held their 1017-18 4-Way-Test Dinner for outstanding seniors from the 11 high schools across Tutuila and Manu’a this past Saturday night, Feb. 3, 2018, [courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/composit_0.jpg?itok=YoVVhbTa "Rotary Club of Pago Pago held their 1017-18 4-Way-Test Dinner for outstanding seniors from the 11 high schools across Tutuila and Manu’a this past Saturday night, Feb. 3, 2018, [courtesy photo]")
ROTARY CLUB’S 4-WAY-TEST BANQUET FOR SENIORS
Rotary Club of Pago Pago held their 1017-18 4-Way-Test Dinner for outstanding seniors from the 11 high schools across Tutuila and Manu’a this past Saturday night, Feb. 3, 2018,
Seniors from each school were nominated by their peers as the students who...
![Satellite imagery of Tropical Storm Gita at 1 a.m., Feb. 10, 2018 local time. [image from Joint Typhoon Warning Center]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/1%20am%2010-jan%20am%20sam%20time.jpg?itok=WZXJ6CCk "Satellite imagery of Tropical Storm Gita at 1 a.m., Feb. 10, 2018 local time. [image from Joint Typhoon Warning Center]")
OVERNIGHT UPDATE — Tropical storm Gita began to move away from Tutuila late yesterday afternoon while a tropical storm warning remains in effect for all of American Samoa. The National Weather Service warned that heavy rainfall and runoffs may cause small streams to overflow resulting in flooding...
![Salend Singh (second from right) with his family including his wife and daughter outside of High Court after the jury found him not guilty to all four charges against him. [photo by AF]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Salene%20Singh_0725.jpg?itok=SBuwNCT9 "Salend Singh (second from right) with his family including his wife and daughter outside of High Court after the jury found him not guilty to all four charges against him. [photo by AF]")
Tears of joy were seen in High Court yesterday afternoon when the jury delivered their verdict of “not guilty” to all four charges filed by the American Samoa government against Salend Singh, who is now a free man.
A six-member jury took over two hours to deliberate on their verdict, after hearing...