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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The LBJ hospital board is refusing to comment on the employment status of the three managers that were placed on leave after internal investigations launched last month.
Samoa News made repeated queries to the spokesperson for the LBJ Board, Vice Chair Dr Jean Anderson...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — To assist American Samoa with federal environmental requirements and permitting and to also prevent delays in moving projects forward, Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga has recommended the U.S Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) establish a local office or a representative to assist...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Samoan man who pled guilty to making a false statement on a U.S passport application has been sentenced to probation but public online court records do not provide any information as to whether he is subject to deportation back to his home country of Samoa.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Michael H. Day accompanied by Coast Guard personnel is concluding his first official visit to American Samoa since assuming the duties as Commander of the Fourteenth Coast Guard District in June 2022.
The Coast Guardsmen met with Acting...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The two men charged in the death of a man in Taputimu in 2020, have been sentenced to seven years at the Tafuna Correctional Facility.
Aperaamo Tonia and Ofisa Malo were initially charged with second-degree murder but they struck a plea bargain with the government and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Chinese woman has been sentenced before the High Court to serve 20 months for the death of a two-year old baby girl.
Acting Associate Justice Elvis Patea handed down sentencing in this case yesterday.
Public Defender David Vargas says his client truly regrets that this...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Two resilience projects in Manu’a and expansion of the Pago Pago International Airport runway are being funded by the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), according to the White House’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law update Fact Sheet on American Samoa released...
Washington, DC — American Samoa’s criminal justice system has been awarded $431,794 in federal funds. This grant is awarded under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2022, signed into Public Law 117-159 last June.
"This grant is through the application efforts of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — LBJ Hospital is getting a Phaco machine thanks to the assistance of Dr. Mitchell Brinks, an ophthalmologist from Oregon Health & Science University and Dr. Nate Gabbard, the son of local LDS missionary doctor, Dr. James Gabbard.
In a statement released by the LBJ,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S. Department of Defense has “restored” students from American Samoa to the National Guard Youth Challenge Academy (NGYCA) in Hawai’i.
This was confirmed in a statement released by Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata yesterday.
“I received the call [yesterday] morning...