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The government’s case against a man who is accused of receiving methamphetamine via the US Postal Service had his case bound over to the High Court, where the defendant entered, through his defense attorney, a not guilty plea last Thursday.
Yuseff Carter was charged two weeks ago with...
Instead of bringing off-island workers, the contractor for the Ta’u Renewable Energy Project, which provides solar energy to power electricity for Ta’u Island, hired 15 local men on the island to do the work.
American Samoa Power Authority contracted California-based Solar City for the Ta’u project...
Pago Pago, A.S. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata, issued the following statement regarding the Department of Defense’s (DOD) decision to suspend efforts to collect reimbursement from California National Guard soldiers who were awarded enlistment bonuses for which they were ineligible.
“I want to applaud...
The now eight-year old Pemerika Sameli Tauiliili, who was flown to Honolulu and later underwent a six-hour surgery, has been released from Kapiolani Women’s and Children’s Hospital, and is doing well and attending an elementary school in Honolulu, his father Ionatana Tauiliili said.
Little Peme...
Traditional leaders of Vaifanua county council have again selected Sen. Gaoteote Tofau Palaie, the current Senate President, to take up their senatorial seat for the next four years, when the new 35th Legislature is sworn into office at 12noon on Jan. 3, 2017, county sources told Samoa News over...
Election officials for the City of Chicago have offered an explanation as to how American Samoa ended up in a Illinois state law, which allows former residents of the state who are registered voters but living in American Samoa to vote by absentee in federal elections, but banned from absentee...
Former Chamber of Commerce chairman David Robinson is calling on the new or returning Administration after the Nov. 8 election to be “more diligent” in pursing investment that would provide job opportunities for the territory and will boost the territory’s economy.
Robinson retires this month after...
The American Samoa Legal Aid (ASLA) was recently notified that it is receiving a $61,740 Technology Initiative Grant from the Legal Services Corporation to implement the Manu’a Islands Access to the Legal Aid Project to allow low income residents of the Manu’a islands to significantly improve their...
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On Tuesday, Oct. 25, the Tafuna High School Social Studies Department hosted a political forum — Let Our Voices Be Heard —focused on the 2016 House of Representative candidates for the Tualauta District and Ituau District. Held at the school’s gymnasium, the forum drew focus not only to voices of...
Agriculture Department acting director Peter Gurr has recommended the suspension until further notice supply to the School Lunch Program of all vegetables except for local taro, green bananas, ripe-bananas and hydroponic vegetables.
Gurr made the recommendation in an Oct. 25th letter to Education...